PSAAG's Blog - Pacific Small Arms Action Group

August 23, 2016

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In Arms Trade Treaty, Blog, The Pacific

Does Australia have a Transparency Problem?

Transparency is fundamental for the success of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Avoiding secrecy in arms transfers will help reduce the opportunity for perpetrators of human rights violations, terrorism and organised crime to procure weapons. Australia not only imports and exports, but it has also played a major role in the development and ratification of […]

Divergent Currents: Addressing Armed Violence in the Caribbean and Pacific

Former PSAAG intern Shmuel Levin has published an article on the Pacific and the Caribbean’s diverging strategies, and what they can teach the world. Published in The Diplomat (15 July, 2016) Shmuel Levin worked with the Pacific Small Arms Action Group in 2015 analyzing and identifying gaps in Asia-Pacific arms control legislation. Shmuel has previously worked […]

Enhancing Fiji’s Arms Control System

The government of Fiji has over the past year, with the assistance of the Pacific Small Arms Action Group (PSAAG), been actively reviewing their current arms control system – including their position on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). On May 11 – 13, Fiji’s Ministry of Defence and PSAAG held a three-day national workshop in […]

Why the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons matters for the Pacific

Of all Knowledge, Experience is the Hardest Won As in all regions of the world, there is potential in the Pacific for arms to cause social disruption and possibly to boil over into conflict. Pacific states have seen small arms fan the flames of smoldering animosity, as in the Solomon Islands where armed tribal conflict […]

Why the Arms Trade Treaty Matters for the Pacific

Small numbers of illicit arms can have a devastating impact The experience of many Small Island Developing States demonstrates the devastating effects of a small amount of illicit arms. During the conflict in the Solomon Islands between 1998 and 2003, a small number of firearms in the wrong hands enabled militants to raid the police […]

Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Arms Trade Treaty: the ATT is ready to do the work

Social media has been alive with chatter about the finalised UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they might influence security and development policy globally. To us, there’s no better example of the need to link security and sustainable development policy than in the South Pacific. Experience in the Pacific(PDF) shows that even a small […]