
Research and Reports
A core objectives of the Control Arms Coalition is to strengthen regulations governing the international trade in conventional arms. Control Arms and its members develop research and policy resources in order to advance highest possible common international standards for regulating or improving the regulation of the international trade in conventional arms
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The Regional Actors project – which was initiated with the generous support of Germany – takes stock of the work of Regional Organizations to better understand how they contribute to ATT promotion, universalization, and implementation efforts and to identify opportunities for further engagement of Regional Organizations in supporting the ATT.
It is intended as a guide for ATT States Parties to better understand what type of ATT assistance is available within their respective regions. As such the handbook gives a snapshot of the diversity of instruments, policies, tools and activities developed and undertaken in this area by a variety of regional bodies, with a specific focus on the ATT.
It also highlights several areas in which the Regional Organization experience can provide guidance and lessons learned for ATT stakeholders.
Key Documents
Publication: Arms Trade Treaty Regional Actor Study
The Arms Trade Treaty takes a cooperative approach by placing the burden of implementation and...
Read MoreInterpreting the Arms Trade Treaty: International Human Rights Law and Gender-Based Violence in Article 7 Risk Assessments
This paper examines how gender and risks of GBV are relevant to each part of the Article 7 risk assessment, particularly with respect to serious violations of international human rights law and provides interpretive guidance on key terms that appear in Article 7.
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Reports
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Gender, GBV and Violence
ATT Gender Action Plan Project
The methodology and the survey, contained in this publication, provide ways to measure States and other stakeholders’ progress towards implementing the CSP5 decisions and recommendations.
Factsheet: Gender and the Arms Trade Treaty
This factsheet offers information about gender-based violence, including recommendations to ensure effective implementation of the ATT and to tackle the gendered impacts of armed violence. It also outlines the current state of gender balance in ATT meetings and provides ideas to promote gender equality in conventional arms control.
This paper provides interpretive guidance on key terms that appear in Article 7, namely and examines how gender and risks of GBV are relevant to each part of the Article 7 risk assessment.
This Question & Answer Sheet provides guidance on what constitutes a serious violation of international human rights law and how gender-based violence relates to the risk assessment.
Fact sheet on Gender in the ATT
To support delegations in mainstreaming gender across the different sections of the Arms Trade Treaty, the International Gender Champions Disarmament Impact Group and Control Arms launched a factsheet with key information and recommendations.
This practical guide offers advice to practitioners and state representatives engaged in export assessments required under the ATT in relation to GBV. It offers useful indicators, guidelines and emerging principles to help develop the requisite expertise and experience to meaningfully incorporate GBV into export assessments
Regional Focus
Arms Trade Treaty Regional Actors Handbook
The Regional Actors project – which was initiated with the generous support of Germany – takes stock of the work of Regional Organizations to better understand how they contribute to ATT promotion, universalization, and implementation efforts and to identify opportunities for further engagement of Regional Organizations in supporting the ATT.
Arms Trade Treaty Regional Actor Study
This publication highlights key findings, provides lessons learned and sets out recommendations on how ATT stakeholders can continue to foster engagement by regional organizations in ATT universalization and implementation efforts.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goals not Guns: How the Sustainable Development Goals and the Arms Trade Treaty are Interlinked
This case study explores these interconnections between the ATT and the SDGs. It shows how there are opportunities to address complementary obligations through Official Development Assistance (ODA), and argues that there is a need for more direct and practical engagement between arms experts and the development community.
Also available in FRENCH
This policy brief identifies and describes how key international conventional arms control and disarmament agreements can support States towards national action on Target 16.4, andd facilitate monitoring and reporting on progress. It also illustrates how reporting mechanisms of these agreements can serve as a measure of progress in evaluating Target 16.4.
ATT Universalization
Achieving ATT Universalization in Africa
This briefing paper examines obstacles facing some of the countries in Africa who are yet to become States Parties to the ATT. It provides an overview of the Treaty’s status across the continent, and features six case studies that investigate specific barriers, actual or perceived, that have hindered membership.
Also available in FRENCH
Thematic Focus
Taming the Devil Within: How to use the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Diversion in Latin America
This report, written as part of the“ATT Academy in Latin America” program, offers specific advice to policymakers and advocates seeking to use the framework of the ATT to assess and mitigate the risks of diversion, particularly in Latin America. The report demonstrates the need for transparency, information sharing and international cooperation, and encourages the rigorous implementation of the ATT, in line with other relevant international and regional instruments
How to Use the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Armed Violence in Pastoralist Communities
This report was written for the “ATT Academy for East and Horn of Africa”, a project of Pace University and Control Arms funded by the United Nations Trust Facility for Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR). This report builds on earlier explorations of possible uses of the ATT for addressing wildlife crime published by Control Arms in 2016 and incorporates information gathered from qualitative fieldwork undertaken in a series of visits to Uganda and Kenya from 2014 to 2016. Also available in FRENCH.
How to Use the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Wildlife Crime
This report offers specific advice to policymakers and advocates seeking to use the framework of the ATT to assess and mitigate the risk that arms transfers will be diverted to poaching networks or exacerbate the negative impacts of militarizing wildlife protection. Also available in FRENCH.
Using the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Wildlife Poaching in East Africa: A Human Security Approach
This policy brief explores the potential for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to be applied to curb the supply of weapons to wildlife poaching and trafficking networks in East Africa. This paper advocates for a human security and sustainable development-centered approach to wildlife crime, while taking care not to formulate generalizations of the many complex contexts of wildlife poaching in East Africa.
Archives (2003 - 2013)
2013
Finishing the Job: Delivering a Bulletproof ATT
Import and Transit Considerations in an Arms Trade Treaty
“Getting it Right” Report (March 2013) by Oxfam International & Saferworld. [Spanish] [French] [Arabic]
2012
The Final Countdown Compendium A Historic Opportunity by Oxfam
Putting Women’s Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty: Oxfam, Saferworld, Womenkind, UNA-UK, UN Program Action Committee
Armed Robbery: How the poorly regulated arms trade is paralyzing development: Control Arms, Oxfam
Stop a Bullet, stop a war: Why ammunition must be included in the Arms Trade Treaty: Control Arms, Oxfam
The Devil is in the Detail: The Importance of comprehensive and legally binding criteria for arms transfers: Oxfam
Transparency and Accountability: Monitoring and Reporting Methods Under an Arms Trade Treaty: International Peace Information Service and TransArms-R
Arms Transfers to the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons for an Effective Arms Trade Treaty: Amnesty International
An Implementation Framework for the Arms Trade Treaty: Saferworld
Our Right To Know: Transparent Reporting Under an Arms Trade Treaty: Amnesty International
Small But Lethal: Small Arms Ammunition and the ATT: PRIO, Norwegian Church Aid ActAlliance, Forum for Environment and Development
How an Arms Trade Treaty Can Help Prevent Armed Violence: Amnesty International and IANSA
2010
Arms Trade Killer Facts: Amnesty International
Deadly Movements: Transportation Controls in the ATT: Amnesty International
2009
Scope: Type of Transfers: Saferworld
Scope: Type of Weapons: Saferworld
The ATT and Military Equipment: Saferworld
The ATT: Countering Myths and Misperceptions: Amnesty International, Insituto Sou da Paz, OXFAM, Project Ploughshares, Saferworld and Albert Schweitzer Institute
Stopping the Terror Trade: Human Rights Rules in the ATT: Amnesty International
2008
Towards an Arms Trade Treaty: Perspective of Countries in Latin America
Blood at the Crossroads – Executive Summary: Amnesty International
Shooting Down the MDGs: Oxfam
Making it Work: Monitoring and Verifying Implementation of an ATT: Saferworld
Blood at the Crossroads: Making the Case for a Global ATT: Amnesty International
2007
Africa’s Missing Billions: International Arms Flows And The Cost Of Conflict: IANSA, Oxfam, Saferworld
2006
The Arms Trade Treaty and Central American Existing Law: Arias Foundation
UN Arms Embargoes – Overview of the last 10 years: Amnesty International, Control Arms, IANSA, Oxfam
The AK47 – World’s Favorite Killing Machine: Control Arms, Oxfam
Arms Without Borders: Why A Global Trade Needs Global Controls (Full): Amnesty International, Control Arms, IANSA, Oxfam
Ammunition: The Fuel of Conflict: Oxfam
2005
Towards An ATT: Next Steps For The PoA: Control Arms, Amnesty International
Impact of Guns on Womens’ Lives: Amnesty International, Control Arms, Stop Violence Against Women
2003
Shattered Lives: The Case for Tough International Arms Control: Amnesty International, Control Arms, and Oxfam
statements and submissions
Statements and written submissions to the ATT Conferences of States Parties and subsidiary bodies can be accessed here.
Submissions to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
On the Impact of Diversion of Arms and Unregulated or Illicit Arms Transfers on Human Rights (16 April 2020)
On the Impact of Arms Transfers on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (03 February 2017)

ATT MONITOR
The ATT Monitor, an independent project of Control Arms, is the de facto international monitoring mechanism for the ATT and serves as a source of information on the implementation of, and compliance with, the Treaty. Its research and analysis serves to strengthen Treaty implementation efforts and improve the transparency of the conventional arms trade.
ATT Monitor Resources
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Case Studies
Transparency and reporting in the Global Arms Trade: Identifying Gaps in Reported Arms Transfers and Assessing State’ Commitments to Transparency (2015 – 2019)
Looking back to move forward: Evaluating five years of ATT Annaul Reports (2015 – 2019)
Tackling Terror: How the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) could stop the diversion of arms and ammunition in West Africa
Factsheets
» Diversion, Transparency and Information Sharing in the Arms Trade Treaty
» Diversion – Prevention Measures
» ATT Annual Reports – Transparency in Arms Transfers
» Compliance with Article 13.3 reporting Obligations
» A Higher Standard of Transparency
» Fulfilling the Transparency Aims And Objectives of the Treaty
» Achieving Meaningful Transparency: Why Disaggregation Matters
Annual Reports

Virtual Events

RESOURCES FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
This is a non-exhaustive list of resources developed to assist States to implement the Arms Trade Treaty.
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Practical Guides
Arms Trade Treaty: Model Law: Government of New Zealand and Small Arms Survey
National Implementation of the Proposed Arms Trade Treaty: CITS, Oxfam, Saferworld (2010)
Applying Sustainable Development to Arms Transfer Decisions: Oxfam (2009) [English] [Spanish] [French]
Applying Human Rights Standards to Arms Transfer Decisions: Amnesty International (2008) [Spanish] [French] [Arabic]
Applying International Humanitarian Law Criteria: ICRC (2007) [Spanish] [French] [Chinese]
ATT Universalization
Taking Stock of the Arms Trade Treaty: Universalization (August 2021) SIPRI
Arms Trade Treaty Fact Sheet (January 2020) United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
Reinvigorating the Narrative: The Broader benefits of the Arms Trade Treaty (September 2017) The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction
Towards a Universal Arms Trade Treaty: Understanding Barriers and Challenges in South-East Asia (October 2016) Giacomo Persi Paoli, Elli Kytomaki – RAND Corporation
The Arms Trade Treaty at a Glance, Factsheet (2016) Arms Control Association
ATT Implementation
Implementing Article 7.7 of the Arms Trade Treaty (August 2022) Saferworld
Implementing the ATT: undertaking an arms transfer risk assessment (August 2018) Saferworld
Applying International Humanitarian Law Criteria: ICRC (2007) [Spanish] [French] [Chinese]
Understanding the Arms Trade Treaty from a Humanitarian Perspective (2017) ICRC.
Implementing the ATT: Essential elements of an effective arms transfer control system. (July 2016), Saferworld
The Arms Trade Treaty: A Practical Guide to National Implementation (2016) Small Arms Survey
Implementing the ATT: Developing brokering controls in less capacitated States (November 2015), Saferworld
Key issues for ATT implementation: Information Exchange under the ATT (January 2015), Saferworld
Arms Trade Treaty Implementation Toolkit, (2015) UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
Applying the Arms Trade Treaty to Ensure the Protection of Human Rights (2015) Amnesty International
Gender and GBV
Gender Perspective on Disarmament and Arms Control Fact Sheet (January 2020) United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs
Gender-Responsive Small Arms Control: A Practical Guide (October 2019) Small Arms Survey
International Humanitarian Law and Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Arms Trade Treaty (April 2019), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Women, Men and the Gendered Nature of Small Arms and Light Weapons Modular Small-arms-control Implementation Compendium (October 2017), United Nations
Preventing Gender-Based Violence Through Arms Control: tools and guidelines to implement the Arms Trade Treaty and UN Programme of Action (April 2016) Reaching Critical Will
Synergies
An Introductory Guide to the Identification of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Associated Ammunition, (2018) Small Arms Survey
Synergies Between the Arms Trade Treaty and UNSCAR 1540 (September 2017) The Stimson Center
Combating the Illicit Arms Trade with the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms & Light Weapons: The Programme of Action, the Arms Trade Treaty, and the UN Register of Conventional Arms: Seeking Synergy and Overcoming Challenges (June 2016) by International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
“Chapter 5” and “Chapter 6,” Comparative Analysis of Global Instruments on Firearms and other Conventional Arms: Synergies for Implementation, (2016) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Diversion
The Arms Trade Treaty: Assessing Its Impact on Countering Diversion (August 2022) The Stimson Center
The Arms Trade Treaty: Diversion Analysis Framework (November 2021) The Stimson Center
Arms Trade Treaty Issue Brief 3: Diversion Analysis Framework (August 2021) UNIDIR
The Arms Trade Treaty: Measures to Prevent, Detect, Address and Eradicate the Diversion of Conventional Arms (October 2020) The Stimson Center