Current externally-funded research grants

• OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC)

  Analysing states' submissions to the OSCE Information Exchange on SALW
  

  SIPRI is currently undertaking a research project on behalf of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre (CPC). The research project is focused on states' Annual Submissions under the OSCE Information Exchange on SALW concerning transfers of SALW to and from other OSCE member states. >>Read More
  

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway

  China and Small and Light Weapons

  This project seeks to (a) gain a more comprehensive understanding of Chinese approaches to preventing and combating illicit and destabilizing small arms and light weapons (SALW) transfers and (b) engage Chinese officials and SALW manufacturers and exporters on improving mechanisms to control SALW transfers.>>Read more

• UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  

  Highlighting the need for effective control and oversight of the supply of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and military equipment during post-conflict security sector reform (SSR) programmes
  

  This project seeks to focus attention on the need to strengthen the control and oversight of the supply of SALW and military equipment during post-conflict SSR programmes as a means of minimizing the risk of conflict, instability and corruption.>>Read more
  

• Open Society Institute (OSI)
  

  The Mapping of Military and Security Related Activities of External Actors in Africa
  

  Working closely with partners in Africa, this project will map the security-related activities of external actors in Africa; assess the impact of these on the prospects for security, democratization and good governance in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries; and support African civil society organizations in raising awareness about such issues. >>Read more
  

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  

  Emerging Military Technologies and the Implications for Strategic Stability in the Twenty-First Century
  

  The SIPRI  arms transfers programme participates in this SIPRI project which examines the implications of evolving non-nuclear military technologies for national nuclear force postures and deterrence strategies.>>Read more

Past externally-funded research grants

2012

• Developing a reporting template for a future ATT.>>Read more

2011

2010

• Developing a template of an End User Certificate for export of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). >>Read more

• Natural resources, arms and conflict in DRC. >>Read more

• Assisting with the improvement of arms export reporting in the Western Balkans. >>Read more

• Destabilizing arms transfers and conventional arms, ammunition and military equipment trafficking via sea. >>Read more

• International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS). >>Read more

• Promoting discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty. >>Read more

2009

• Implementation of the EU Common Position on the control of arms brokering. >>Read more

• Developing a regional arms export report for the Western Balkans. >>Read more

• Developing improved mechanisms for identifying agents engaged in illicit shipments of SALW to Africa. >>Read more

• The Control of Air Transportation of Small Arms and Light Weapons and Munitions. >>Read more

2008

• Transparency in Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons: Reports to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, 2003-2006. >>Read more

• The Europeanisation of EU arms exports - How has the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports changed the arms export policies of EU member states? >>Read more

2007

•  United Nations Arms Embargoes: Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behaviour. >>Read more