Abbreviations and conventions

Chapter:

Source:

SIPRI Yearbook 2023

Author(s):

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

• ABM

  Anti-ballistic missile

• ACLED

  Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

• AG

  Australia Group

• AI

  Artificial intelligence

• ALCM

  Air-launched cruise missile

• APC

  Armoured personnel carrier

• APM

  Anti-personnel mine

• ASAT

  Anti-satellite

• ASEAN

  Association of Southeast Asian Nations

• ATT

  Arms Trade Treaty

• AU

  African Union

• AWS

  Autonomous weapon systems

• BCC

  Bilateral Consultative Commission (of the Russian–US New START treaty)

• BWC

  Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

• CAR

  Central African Republic

• CBM

  Confidence-building measure

• CBW

  Chemical and biological weapon/warfare

• CCM

  Convention on Cluster Munitions

• CCW

  Certain Conventional Weapons (Convention)

• CD

  Conference on Disarmament

• CFE

  Conventional armed forces in Europe (Treaty)

• CFSP

  Common Foreign and Security Policy (of the EU)

• CSBM

  Confidence- and security-building measure

• CSDP

  Common Security and Defence Policy (of the EU)

• CSTO

  Collective Security Treaty Organization

• CTBT

  Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

• CTBTO

  Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

• CW

  Chemical weapon/warfare

• CWC

  Chemical Weapons Convention

• DDR

  Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

• DPRK

  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

• DRC

  Democratic Republic of the Congo

• ECOWAS

  Economic Community of West African States

• EDF

  European Defence Fund

• EPF

  European Peace Facility

• ERW

  Explosive remnants of war

• EU

  European Union

• EWIPA

  Explosive weapons in populated areas

• FFM

  Fact-finding mission

• FMCT

  Fissile material cut-off treaty

• FY

  Financial year

• G7

  Group of Seven (industrialized states)

• GDP

  Gross domestic product

• GGE

  Group of governmental experts

• GLCM

  Ground-launched cruise missile

• HCOC

  Hague Code of Conduct

• HEU

  Highly enriched uranium

• IAEA

  International Atomic Energy Agency

• ICBM

  Intercontinental ballistic missile

• ICC

  International Criminal Court

• ICJ

  International Court of Justice

• IED

  Improvised explosive device

• IGAD

  Intergovernmental Authority on Development

• IHL

  International humanitarian law

• IMF

  International Monetary Fund

• INF

  Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (Treaty)

• ISAF

  International Security Assistance Force

• ISU

  Implementation Support Unit

• ITI

  International Tracing Instrument

• JCPOA

  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

• LEU

  Low-enriched uranium

• MENA

  Middle East and North Africa

• MIRV

  Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle

• MRBM

  Medium-range ballistic missile

• MTCR

  Missile Technology Control Regime

• NAM

  Non-Aligned Movement

• NSAG

  Non-state armed group

• NATO

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• NGO

  Non-governmental organization

• NNWS

  Non-nuclear weapon state

• NPT

  Non-Proliferation Treaty

• NSG

  Nuclear Suppliers Group

• NWS

  Nuclear weapon state

• OAS

  Organization of American States

• OECD

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• OEWG

  Open-ended working group

• OHCHR

  Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

• OPCW

  Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

• OSCC

  Open Skies Consultative Commission

• OSCE

  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

• P5

  Five permanent members of the UN Security Council

• PAROS

  Prevention of an arms race in outer space

• PMSC

  Private military and security company

• POA

  Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (UN)

• R&D

  Research and development

• SADC

  Southern African Development Community

• SALW

  Small arms and light weapons

• SAM

  Surface-to-air missile

• SLBM

  Submarine-launched ballistic missile

• SLCM

  Sea-launched cruise missile

• SORT

  Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty

• SRBM

  Short-range ballistic missile

• START

  Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

• TPNW

  Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

• UAE

  United Arab Emirates

• UAV

  Unmanned aerial vehicle

• UN

  United Nations

• UNHCR

  UN High Commissioner for Refugees

• UNMILEX

  UN Report on Military Expenditures

• UNODA

  UN Office for Disarmament Affairs

• UNROCA

  UN Register of Conventional Arms

• WA

  Wassenaar Arrangement

• WHO

  World Health Organization

• WMD

  Weapon(s) of mass destruction