SIPRI Yearbook 2024
V. The Global Framework for Through-life Conventional Ammunition Management
Weak management of weapons and ammunition poses a significant challenge to peace, security and development. Despite this, no international instrument addressed this problem specifically and there has been consistent resistance to efforts to include ammunition within the scope of the 2001 United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (UNPOA).1 This regulatory gap was recognized by a group of governmental experts that the UN General Assembly established in 2020 to consider problems arising from the accumulation of surplus conventional ammunition stockpiles.2 As a result, in 2021 the General Assembly established an open-ended working group (OEWG) with the mandate ‘to elaborate a set of political commitments as a new global framework that will address existing gaps in through-life ammunition management’.3
- Citation (MLA):
- Davis, Ian, Kolja Brockmann, Alexander Graef, Giovanna Maletta, Selma Mustafić, Pieter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman. "10. Conventional arms control and the regulation of inhumane weapons." SIPRI Yearbook. SIPRI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. Web. 22 May. 2025. <https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198930570/sipri-9780198930570-chapter-010-div1-064.xml>.
- Citation (APA):
- Davis, I., Brockmann, K., Graef, A., Maletta, G., Mustafić, S., Wezeman, P., & Wezeman, S. (2016). 10. Conventional arms control and the regulation of inhumane weapons. In SIPRI, SIPRI Yearbook 2024: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 May. 2025, from https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198930570/sipri-9780198930570-chapter-010-div1-064.xml
- Citation (Chicago):
- Davis, Ian, Kolja Brockmann, Alexander Graef, Giovanna Maletta, Selma Mustafić, Pieter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman. "10. Conventional arms control and the regulation of inhumane weapons." In SIPRI Yearbook 2024: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, SIPRI. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Retrieved 22 May. 2025, from https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198930570/sipri-9780198930570-chapter-010-div1-064.xml
Please log in to access full text content, or find out more about how to subscribe.
If you think you should have access to this service, please contact your librarian.