475 Making Arms Sanctions Work

A new, 57-page study from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Uppsala University has found that arms sanctions have caused target governments to change their behavior only 25 percent of the time, but that if UN peacekeepers were also in place, that rate of effectiveness went up to 47 percent. The reports’ authors include the following recommendations to the UN Security Council:

  • Ensure clarity of coverage, scope and demands in UN arms embargo resolutions. Conduct regular reviews to assess compliance with UN arms embargo demands.
  • Increase the authority and expertise of UN sanctions committees, panels of experts and monitoring teams.
  • Establish a ‘clearing house’ for UN sanctions committees, panels of experts and monitoring teams.
  • Assess and strengthen the capacity of member states to implement arms embar- goes.
  • Target governmental and non-governmental actors that assist in the violation of a UN arms embargo.
  • Promote the adoption of national legislation criminalizing UN arms embargo violations.
  • Improve international harmonization of efforts to limit arms brokers’ violations of UN arms embargoes.
  • Clearly define ‘conflict goods’ and measures for embargoing their export in combination with UN arms embargoes.

The full report is available as a PDF here.

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