During the summer of 2012, the SIPRI Arms Transfers and Dual-use and Arms Trade Control programmes cooperated with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to develop a checklist for Norwegian risk assessments for arms exports.
The MFA has now adopted a checklist to limit the risk that Norwegian arms exports will be delivered to states that are unstable and have a poor record on human rights and international humanitarian law. The checklist places particular emphasis on the risk that exported military equipment could be used for repression or human rights abuses. Paul Holtom will present the checklist at a meeting on 18 December 2012 at the Norwegian parliament.
Download the Norwegian export control report (PDF, in Norwegian). Read a news article in English explaining the contents of the checklist.
Contact Dr Sibylle Bauer or Mark Bromley for more information.