About the Small Arms Survey

 

The Small Arms Survey provides expertise on all aspects of small arms and armed violence.

 

As a global centre of excellence, the Small Arms Survey generates evidence-based, impartial, and policy-relevant knowledge and analysis on small arms and armed violence issues for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and civil society. The Survey is located in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

 

The Survey has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, law, economics, development studies, sociology, and criminology. About half of the Survey’s team is based in Geneva. The Survey also has an office in Washington D.C.

 

Objectives and resources

The Small Arms Survey’s main objective is to reduce the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons and their impacts.

 

To achieve this objective, the Survey generates policy-relevant research and analysis, and provide both resources (publications, podcasts and a wide range of relevant outputs) and services (training and capacity-building).

 

The Small Arms Survey also manages five major global databases:

• Global violent deaths database

• Small arms holdings

• Peace operations data set (PODS)

• Transparency in the global authorized small arms trade

• Unplanned explosions at munitions sites (UEMS)

 

All Small Arms Survey resources are available online, many in several languages at www.smallarmssurvey.org

 

Selected projects

Agenda 2030: Data and expertise that can be used to assess progress made in achieving peaceful, just, and inclusive societies, in particular through significant reductions in violent deaths and illicit arms flows.

 

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