Arms No More

Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements

1. Arms trade – overview……......................................................................5
-Recent trends in military expenditure…………………………………...9
-UK annual report on weapons export 2003…………………………….11
-Arms subsidies cost UK jobs…………………………………………..12

2. Highlights and survey of the small arms ................................................14
-Civilians still bearing the burnt of war – UN report…………………...28
-UN Security Council condemns recruitment of child soldiers………...29

3. Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction – nuclear, biological
and chemical, its prevention and future..................................................30

4. Strengthening controls and ending arms trade........................................36
-Preventing war and arms control............................................................36
-Nuclear disarmament...................……………..…………………….…53
-Education for culture of peace ...............................................................55
-Ending gun culture……………………………….................................57
-Rule of law to bring justice and protection of human rights…………..58
-Mediation and peacekeeping ………………………………………….60
-Strengthening the United Nations …………………….. ……………..61
-Citizens actions and campaigns ……………………............................62
-European code of conduct on arms …………………………………...64
-Weapon collection initiatives in Rio De Janeiro and El Salvador…….67
-Clean investment campaign and information about Campaign Against
Arms Trade (CAAT)…………………………………………………..72
-Conversion of arms strategies………………….……………………..74
-New global campaign to control Arms by IANSA, Oxfam and
Amnesty International and IANSA Founding Document 1999……....74
-UN Symposium on Terrorism and Disarmament………………….....92
-UN’s efforts to reduce small arms light weapons and eliminate all
weapons of mass destruction………………………………………....93
-Security cannot be attained through military superiority – report…….94
-10 things we can learn from people engaged in resolving conflict…...96

  1. ARC Who are we? Ideas for how ARC can make a difference…….97
  2. ARC’s 20 positive action plan to follow…………............................99
  3. ARC newsletter …………………………………………………...103
  1. Contact list of organisations……………………………………….112
  2. Sources for information - books, videos and links….......................116
  3. Other publications by the same author…………………………….120

Written and produced by Vijay Mehta for Arms Reduction Coalition
Cover Illustration by Gary Georgiev

 

ARMS NO MORE

From gun culture to culture of peace

Turning dream into a reality

Guidelines for discussion on the theme of Arms Reduction.

"Arms no More" booklet is a comprehensive study of small arms, light weapons and weapons of mass destruction – nuclear, biological and chemical. It outlines global efforts to develop and implement effective projects to limit the use and spread of small arms, which stands as a critical challenge to human security.

Arms Reduction Coalition is a network of organisations and supporters from all over the world calling on all governments and people of the world to pursue with greater vigour the implementation of Article 26 of the United Nations Charter in the UN Security Council, which calls for

"the establishment of an effective system to regulate armaments..." "..to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources".

We believe that during the first 50 years of the UN the five permanent members of the United Nations, the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, have flooded the world with weapons bringing untold misery around the world. Despite Article 26 little has been done to end this obscene trade.

Every member of the UN General Assembly should demand that the pledge in Article 26 is now honoured.

This book is part of a global campaign which is urging that the international community to make a irrevocable pledge to implement Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the review conference 2005 and must adopt a global arms trade treaty in time for the next UN Small Arms Conference in 2006

Author:

Vijay Mehta is Chairman of Arms Reduction Coalition He has lectured widely on International Relations, Peace, Disarmament and weapons trade in all its aspects from small weapons, light weapons to nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. His other publications are" NPT Dossier for Prep-Com Review Conference 2004 2005" Ban The Bomb or Risk Self Destruction Can United Nations and International Community Meet The Challenge? "Are Rulers above Law?" Can World Tribunals and Citizens actions on Iraq establish War Crimes and War Criminals? "United Nations and its future in 21st century"