The Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT) organised an international workshop on “Integrating Small Arms Measures into Development Programmes” in Oslo, 30 November – 1 December 2006. The workshop gathered over 60 participants from 30 countries (of which about 20 from developing regions) with the aim to share knowledge and experience of initiatives to address the impact of small arms violence upon sustainable development.

This international workshop aims to engage small arms experts, researchers and field practioners in sharing knowledge and experience on initiatives to address the impact of small arms proliferation and violence upon sustainable development.

Highly topical with the ongoing UN Review conference in New York, the NISAT project at PRIO presents PRIO Report 1-2006. This is the Report and Recommendations from an expert seminar on integrating development into the UN Programme of Action Process, jointly organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NISAT, in Oslo on 22–23 March 2006.

The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, in collaboration with the NISAT Coalition, is holding an expert seminar on “Integrating Development Component into the UN Program of Action Process”.

Based on Hubert Sauper’s grotesque film depiction of how destitution and war are kept going in Tanzania on the terms of international weapons dealers, we would like to illuminate a new and frightening phenomenon on the African continent: Neocolonisation.

Norwegian Church Aid and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) will launch the report: Who takes the bullet? – The impact of small arms violence.