CANADIAN DISARMAMENT DIGEST
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
OCTOBER 1998
Small Arms Bibliography

There has been a growing awareness in the world of the problems created by the global surplus of small arms and light weapons. [Canada, among other nations, has taken the lead in efforts to address the proliferation of light weapons in the world. This was emphasized by a recent statement by the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to a conference on Small Arms, Orillia, Ontario, Canada, 19 August, 1998. ] Literature on the subject is replete with statistics outlining the abundance of weaponry and its availability to groups for use in advancing their particular cause, whether that be characterized as political terrorism, state repression, ethnic violence or criminal activity.

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SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ottawa: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, November 1996

This annotated bibliography covers publicly available scholarly and analytical works written on the subject of small arms and light weapons proliferation and possible responses to this issue, published between 1993 and August 1996. Also included are key Internet resources, an author index and a keyword index.

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