As an independent, non-profit organization, BICC deals with a wide range of global topics in the field of peace and conflict research centring on Conversion Studies. It works on the constructive transformation of conflicts, disarmament and poverty. Since 2012, BICC has developed and is maintaining the interactive SALW Guide in cooperation with the ZVBw. The online portal shows the most important small arms and light weapons. Besides technical details on individual types of weapons and their different version, photographs and drawings of marks, it also shows the global spread of these individual weapons. These details are intended to help identify SALW.

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• BICC - SALW Guide

The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is an international civil society movement that campaigns against the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions. The Coalition, active in around 100 countries around the world, works to change the policy and legislation of governments and organizations and raise public awareness of the inhumane use of cluster munitions.

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• Cluster Munition Coalition - Treaty Status

In 1998, the EU Member States in the framework of their Common Foreign and Security Policy adopted a non-legally binding code of conduct for arms exports. In 2008, this code of conduct was integrated into the EU Common Position No 944. All members have agreed to abide by it and to integrate it into national law. Core elements of the Common Position are eight criteria regarding arms exports licenses and the commitment to present an annual arms exports report. The eight criteria lay down when trade or the movement of military goods and weapons is permitted. A final decision on whether it wants to finally permit the transfer of military technology, however, is up to each individual nation. These annual export reports are intended to improve transparency in arms deals. In these reports, each country lists its exports of military weapons and military equipment according to the country of destination. These goods are divided into 22 categories

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EU - Arms Exports Reports 2008 - 2018

• 19th EU Arms Exports Report

• 18th EU Arms Exports Report

• 17th EU Arms Exports Report

• 16th EU Arms Exports Report

• 15th EU Arms Exports Report

• 14th EU Arms Exports Report

• 13th EU Arms Exports Report

• 12th EU Arms Exports Report

• 11th EU Arms Exports Report

• 10th EU Arms Exports Report

• 9th EU Arms Exports Report

The ZVBw is responsible for making sure that the arms control treaties that are binding under international law are adhered to in Germany. The Small Arms and Light Weapons Guide was developed to train the soldiers in recognizing SALW and to be used in the field. The Guide provides information on parameters, typical markings, characteristics to distinguish the most common SALW worldwide from each other and of their origin and spread.

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• Federal Armed Forces Verification Centre

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is a global network that works in more than 90 countries in the world for a world that is free of anti-personnel landmines. In 1997, the campaign was awarded the Peace Nobel Prize for the enforcement of the Mine Ban Treaty. On the ICBL's website, one can find a list of all countries that have ratified the Mine Ban Treaty.

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• International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Treaty Status

The IISS publishes figures on military capacities available worldwide on an annual basis. With research being central to IISS activities, its experts deliver impartial policy advice on military and strategic issues. In its annual publication The Military Balance, it provides information on the number of service personnel, weapons, population and GDP for 171 countries. It mainly provides detailed and differentiated lists of weapons and soldiers (including recruits and paramilitaries) per country. The Institute also evaluates military capacities and arms economies.

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• Military Balance

The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is an initiative providing research for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). International Campaign to Ban Landmines - ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition Since 1999, they publish reports on landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war on an annual basis. The ICBL is the author of these reports; Mines Action Canada has been the editor since 2004.

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• Cluster Munition Monitor 2017
• Cluster Munition Monitor 2016 Maps

The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is an initiative providing research for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). International Campaign to Ban Landmines - ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition Since 1999, they publish reports on landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war on an annual basis. The ICBL is the author of these reports; Mines Action Canada has been the editor since 2004.

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• Landmine Monitor 2017
• Landmine Monitor 2016 Maps

The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is an initiative providing research for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). International Campaign to Ban Landmines - ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition Since 1999, they publish reports on landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war on an annual basis. The ICBL is the author of these reports; Mines Action Canada has been the editor since 2004.

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• Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor - Country Reports

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva. It publishes data concerning small arms and light weapons on different topics and areas on an annual basis.

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• Small Arms Survey - Civilian Firearms Holdings

Since 1962, the UN COMTRADE database makes available annual statistics on international foreign trade. Since 2010, it also makes monthly statistics for 50 countries available. The data sets that are free of charge are classified in 90 product groups and have been converted into US dollars taking into consideration the current country-specific exchange rates. Since 1996, trade statistics of 189 countries on military goods (weapons and ammunition) have been entered into the database.

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• UN Comtrade - Data

UNODA is an office of the United Nations Secretariat. The General Assembly calls upon all members of the United Nations to present an annual report about their imports and exports of weapons. UNODA, since mid-2011, has published an online overview that is based on these country reports—the Global Reported Arms Trade. The following weapons fall under the category of heavy weapons systems: Tanks, helicopters, combat aircraft, submarines, warships, rockets and rocket launchers. They are defined as larger machines that can be used in immediate combat and integrate various military needs (movement, firepower, etc.) into one system. The main exporting countries of heavy weapons systems are Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United States.

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• The Global Reported Arms Trade - the UN Register of Conventional Arms

In 2014, UNODC published the "Global Study on Homicide" based on the "UNODC Homicide Statistics dataset" updated in 2013. In the publication, the data on violence and crime to 2012 are discussed. All country data have been collected by queries to the police of the individual countries and then harmonised. Gaps in the data are due to the transfer of information of single countries with the respective data collection by the police and reports of citizens.

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• UNODC "Global Study on Homicide" 2014