ISS Conference: Pursuing Security in Africa? The State of Research and Practice on Arms Control and Armed Violence Reduction in Africa

Date: 2007-11-26 to Invalid date

ISS Conference: Pursuing Security in Africa? The State of Research and Practice on Arms Control and Armed Violence Reduction in Africa
Cape Town, 26-28 November 2007

 

The Arms Management Programme of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) will be hosting an international conference titled: ‘Pursuing Security in Africa: The state of research and practice on arms control and armed violence reduction in Africa’. The conference will take place at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, from 26 to 28 November 2007.

 

The following themes will be addressed during the conference:

• Armed violence reduction approaches and programmes;
• Arms transfer controls;
• Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants;
• Arms brokering;
• Ammunition controls;
• Impact of national arms control and armed violence reduction legislation, policy and institutions;
• Role of inter-governmental organisations, sub-regional organisations and protocols in promoting arms control and armed violence reduction; and
• Role of civil society in promoting arms control and armed violence reduction.

 

A call for papers for this conference was distributed in early 2007, and a number of researchers, academics and practitioners submitted abstracts, a number of which were accepted. Attendance of the conference is by invitation only. A selection of the papers will be published in an edited volume in 2008.

 

For more information, please contact Agar Ngwenya, Tel: (012) 346 9500, Fax: (012) 460 0998, Email: [email protected].