Research and Reports

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. 

Interpreting the Arms Trade Treaty: International Human Rights Law and Gender-Based Violence in Article 7 Risk Assessments

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.

Question & Answer Sheet: Serious Human Rights Violations and Gender-Based Violence in the Arms Trade Treaty

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.

How to Use the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Gender-based Violence: A Practical Guide for Risk Assessment 

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

Also available in FRENCH & SPANISH

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.

Also available in FRENCH & SPANISH

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

Coming Full Circle: The relevance of Arms Control and Disarmament Instruments to Target 16.4and the 2030 Agenda

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. 

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

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.

2013