Source: Armed Groups Project
Country: World
The paper starts by offering a typology of armed actors in the disarmament debate - including both states and non-state armed groups - followed by a discussion of what the available research indicates about the dynamics of weapons transfers to armed groups. Based on this, the authors then propose ways to regulate states' end-use through different command and control mechanisms, and conclude by exploring emerging ways to engage non-state armed groups in regulating their own weapons end-use which are compatible with improved state regulations.
