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26728: Wayne (News) Small Arms Survey (fwd)





Desiree Wayne  desiree_wayne@msn.com

The 2005 Small Arms Survey Occasional Paper No. 14 "Securing Haiti's Transition: Reviewing Human Insecurity and the Prospects for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration" by Robert Muggah, originally published in April 2005 to a flurry of debate has been revised and reissued. The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The Paper provides a general overview of the human security crisis facing Haiti based on research over several months in late 2004 and early 2005.

Among the findings reported are:

Approximately 1,600 individuals have been violently killed since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's ouster in February 2004. Armed violence is expected to escalate in the lead-up to the planned elections. The effects of armed violence extend well beyond injury and undermine civilian security. Humanitarian and development interventions are regularly impeded by the presence of armed force.

Human and national security in Haiti is undermined by the presence of at least a dozen distinct types of armed groups, many of whom are embedded in communities where they enjoy robust local support, and that are beginning to consolidate their power throughout the country.

See the entire report at:

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/OPs/OP14B-Haiti-English.pdf