These are the two principal sites offering practical advice on
running a SALW collection/destruction project:
The United
Nations offers
a downloadable
manual
on practical disarmament in PDF format
The Bonn
International Centre for Conversion (BICC) has
a helpdesk on weapons collection/destruction and a manual downloadable
in English,
French,
Portuguese,
Russian
and Spanish
Planning
An initial assessment might answer the following:
- How is armed violence affecting the community (citizens, businesses,
NGOs)? Who is exercising this violence?
- To what extent is this violence due to the visibility, availability,
possession and misuse of weapons?
- What specific types of weapons can be identified as the primary
cause of the problem?
- Who is in possession of these weapons?
- Why do these people possess weapons?
- How were the weapons distributed?
- What laws, if any, govern the possession and use of small arms?
- How are these laws being enforced?
- What is the culture of weapons/culture of violence in the area?
- What previous efforts have been implemented to reduce the weapons
in circulation?
- What organizations are operating in the area which could assist
in reducing or preventing the availability or misuse of these weapons?
An excellent Cambodian survey
compiled by a Working Group on Weapons Reduction is downloadable
from the WGWR website, both as a Word document and in PDF format. BICC
has a list of planning considerations here,
specifically:
The Handgun
Epidemic Lowering Plan (HELP) published
a handbook on handgun disposal and advocacy, which can be ordered
from its
website.
Implementation
The BICC
helpdesk has a site on implementing collection/destruction
programs
and the UN
handbook (in PDF) has a great deal of information on how to dispose of weapons.
Examples of successful projects are available here
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