Light Weapons and Intrastate Conflict: Early Warning Factors and Preventive Action

This report breaks new ground in calling for a renewed focus on the actual tools of violence•small arms and light weapons•that are the means by which hundreds of thousands of people, mostly innocent civilians, are killed and wounded each year.Laurance, Edward J. Light Weapons and Intrastate Conflict: Early Warning Factors and Preventive Action (Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1998)