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Armed Violence in SASaVI Colloquium - 2 November 2013
Natalie Jaynes
Small Arms SurveyIntroduction
Provides reliable and impartial policy-relevant analysis on small arms and armed violence.Support from governments:
• Finland• Germany• Netherlands• Norway
• Sweden• Switzerland• United Kingdom• United States
• Australia• Belgium• Canada • Denmark
Works closely with UN system & partners
Yearbook 2013 – Everyday dangers
526,000 people die violently each year
Only 10 % can be considered direct conflict deaths
What is Armed Violence?
“the use or threatened use of weapons to
inflict injury, death or psychosocial harm, which undermines
development” (OECD, 2009)
South Africa
1995
/96
1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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200
4/05
2005
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2006
/07
2007
/08
2008
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2009
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2010
/11
2011
/12
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5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Homicide Percentage of homicide by firearm
Contributing/Inhibiting factors
1) Legislation2) Policing Practices3) Socio-economic
policies4) Programming5) Data / monitoring
Policing Practices
• Use of force• Firearms• Leadership
crisis
Inequality
“the most well established environmental determinant of levels of violence is the scale of income differences between rich and poor” (Wilkinson, 2004, p. 1).
Small Arms Survey 2012Moving Targets
Thank younatalie.jaynes@smallarmssurvey.org
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