This Action, supported by the , aims to better integrate and coordinate European research into issues associated with small arms and light weapons. More information about COST Actions can be found on the Council of the European Union website , and on the COST webpage . COST's rules and procedures are available .
The Action funds a series of meetings, workshops and scholarly visits (though not salary costs). Researchers can participate once their government has signed the action. Currently, the Action includes the following countries:
Please download the original (which contains an overview of the Action’s proposed activities). The Action is is organised by a , and structured into three :
- methodology
- transfers
- armed violence.
At the third Management Committee meeting, the Chairman presented an to the COST Science Officer for Social Sciences and Humanities, which mainly outlines the Action’s objectives, participation, coordination, and results for its first year of existence.
The fifth Management Committee endorsed a produced by the Action's Chair.
COST Action A25 meetings in 2004:
Brussels, COST Office, 12 January, First Management Committee Meeting.
[Download the First Management Committee meeting minutes .]
Oslo, ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ / NISAT, 4 June, WG 2 Meeting on the EU Code of Conduct
[Download Oslo meeting minutes .]
Utrecht, Pax Christi Netherlands, 29 June, WG 2 Meeting on trafficking and brokering. [Download Utrecht meeting minutes .]
Bradford, CICS, 24 & 5 September, WG 1 & 3 Meeting on small arms, development, and armed violence. [Download Bradford meeting minutes .]
Brussels, COST Office, 21 October, Second Management Committee meeting.
[Download the Second Management Committee meeting minutes .]
Brussels, GRIP, 22 October, Conference on the production, marking, and tracing of small arms. [Download Brussels Conference minutes .]
Barcelona, UAB / ECP, 29 October, WG 2 Meeting on developing a common understanding of the EU Code of Conduct’s criteria.
[Download Barcelona meeting minutes ]
COST Action A25 meetings in 2005
Geneva, Small Arms Survey, 14 March, Third Management Committee meeting. [Download the Third Management Committee meeting minutes
Geneva, Small Arms Survey,15 March, WG 1 & 3 Meeting on European crime data and firearms violence.
[Download Geneva meeting , list of , and ]
[Download the presentations: - HSPH; - WHO; - Interpol; - ECSI; - ICDP; - UNICRI; - UNODC]
The Hague, Pax Christi Netherlands, 30 & 31 May, Workshop " When the States Fails, Community Responses to Armed Violence". [Workshop presentations are available on CD only]
Sofia, Saferworld/CSD, 5 & 6 October, WG 1 & 2 Meeting on Transparency and Arms Research. [Download Sofia meeting minutes ]
Bradford, Bradford University/ UAB, 28 & 29 October, WG 1 & 3 Meeting on SALW after Conflict [Download Bradford meeting minutes ]
Bonn, BICC/ ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ, 16 November, Fourth Management Committee Meeting [Download the Fourth Management Committee meeting minutes ]
Bonn, BICC, 17 & 18 November, WG1 & 3 Meeting on "Gun Culture(s)"
[Download Bonn meeting minutes ]
COST Action A25 activities in 2006Bonn, BICC, 8th February, Fifth Management Committee Meeting. [Download the meeting notes ].
Bonn, BICC, 9 & 10 February, Working Group 3 Meeting on the role of armed private security actors in armed violence. [Download the presentations by ; ; ; and ] [Download the meeting notes ]
Geneva, SAS, 17 February, Working Group 1 Meeting on methodologies used by researchers to estimate numbers of armed conflict deaths.
Forthcoming activities
Helsinki, in association with IPPNW, 8 September. The Working Group three meeting on morbidity and will be held in conjunction with the IPPNW World Conference.
Stockholm, SIPRI, Working Group 2 Meeting on Transparency. Provisional for late September or early October. This meeting may be held in conjunction with a Management Committee meeting.
Oslo, ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ, Workshop "Building policy and strategic coherence for the integration small arms violence into development cooperation" (provisional September).
