Rethinking small arms control in Africa: it is time to set an armed violence reduction agendaFootnote

Dr Robert Muggah is Research Director of the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a Principal of The SecDev Group in Ottawa, Canada.

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