Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

The Arms Trade Treaty is the only international treaty covering a wide-range of conventional weapons. It entered into force in 2014 and includes provisions requiring assessments before arms are transferred, and public reporting, amongst other provisions.

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ReArm Europe and the Rule of Law

European Defence & Security Law & Policy Quarterly | August 27, 2026.

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Should We Separate Military From Security? with Anna Stavrianakis

Apple Podcasts | August 12, 2026.

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Why Kenya should join the Arms Trade Treaty

Saferworld | August 10, 2026.

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A Just Peace Ethic Primer | Georgetown University Press | 2020 | Jasmin Nario-Galace
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Asia/Oceania Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Other International Instruments
Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament | Palgrave Macmillan | 2020 | Matthew Breay Bolton
Landmines and Cluster Munitions AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Environment
Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations | (Palgrave Pivot | 2020 | Matthew Breay Bolton
Landmines and Cluster Munitions AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Environment
La amnistía mexicana: sus tres defectos | Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica | 2020 | León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Latin America Europe Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Political Minefields: The Struggle against Automated Killing | I.B. Taurus | 2020 | Matthew Breay Bolton
Landmines and Cluster Munitions AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Environment
Punishing the violators? Arms embargoes and economic sanctions as tools of norm enforcement | Review of International Studies | Volume 46, No. 1 | Jennifer L. Erickson
United States Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Other International Instruments
Requiem for Risk: Non-knowledge and Domination in the Governance of Weapons Circulation | no. 4 | Volume 13, No. 4 | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
Detecting, investigating and prosecuting export control violations: European perspectives on key challenges and good practices | SIPRI | December 2019 | Mark Bromley
Global Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Latin America Europe
The Gendered Impact of Explosive Weapons Use in Populated Areas in Yemen | Oxfam Briefing Paper | November 26, 2019. | Martin Butcher
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Europe
See no evil: How the UK government tries not to know about bombing civilians in Yemen | The Guardian | October 3, 2019. | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
UK Stance on Khashoggi murder betrayed by unlawful arms sales to Saudis | The Guardian | October 3, 2019. | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
Revising the EU Dual-use Regulation: Challenges and opportunities for the trilogue process | SIPRI | 2019 | Mark Bromley
Global Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Latin America Europe
Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda | Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies (ed. Stacey Connaughton and Jessica Berns) | September 26, 2019. | Matthew Breay Bolton
Landmines and Cluster Munitions AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians Environment
Mandy Smithberger | Forum on the Arms Trade | September 1, 2019. | Anna Crowe, Linda Åkerström
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Owen LeGrone | Forum on the Arms Trade | September 1, 2019. | Anna Crowe, Linda Åkerström
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Is Africa ready for weapons that call their own shots? | ISS Today | August 29, 2019. | Gugu Dube
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Africa Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Landmines and Cluster Munitions AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons
ATT Monitor Report 2019 | Control Arms Secretariat | August 26, 2019. | Verity Coyle
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)AI/Autonomous and Emerging Weapons Gender United States
Measuring illicit arms and financial flows: Improving the assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 16 | SIPRI | July 2019 | Mark Bromley
Global Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Latin America Europe
14 empty airframes and what they say about Swedish state-Saab relations | June 24 | June 24, 2019. | Linda Åkerström
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
British arms sales to Saudi Arabia deemed unlawful, but now the hard work begins | The Guardian | June 22, 2019. | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
Sorry Jeremy Hunt, it's not that easy to excuse selling arms to Saudi Arabia | Independent | April 2, 2019. | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
Interpreting the Arms Trade Treaty: International Human Rights Law and Gender-Based Violence in Article 7 Risk Assessments | Control Arms | 2019 | Anna Crowe
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Humanitarian Law/Human Rights Harm to Civilians
Jeff Abramson's testimony | Forum on the Arms Trade | April 1, 2019. | Jeff Abramson
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Global Landmines and Cluster Munitions
Why can't we talk about the UK sending arms to Yemen? | The Guardian | 2019 | Anna Stavrianakis
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Europe
Más armas, menos violencia: ¿funcionará la propuesta de Bolsonaro? | RT | February 1, 2019. | Magda Coss Nogueda
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)Gender Latin America