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Conventional Arms and Ammunition
The Arms Trade Treaty: Preventing Diversion Through End-Use and End-User Controls
26 August 2025
Integrated Approaches
New Directions for the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Connecting Victim Assistance with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
18 August 2025
Managing Exits from Armed Conflict
At the Margins: Gendered Barriers to Accessing Reintegration Programming in the Lake Chad Basin
16 August 2025
Managing Exits from Armed Conflict
Struggling to Keep Up: Iraqi Returnees’ Economic (Re)integration Progress Over Time
6 August 2025
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Biorisk Governance: Advancing Biosecurity Education for Life Scientists
5 August 2025
Managing Exits from Armed Conflict
Reconsidering Common Conceptions Around Sexual Violence in Conflict Contexts: Evidence from the North West of Nigeria, the Lake Chad Basin and Colombia
29 July 2025
Space Security
Space Industry Workshop Report: Industry Perspectives on Addressing Space Security Challenges
22 July 2025
Managing Exits from Armed Conflict
Desperate Measures: How Civilians Avoid Forced Recruitment During Ongoing Conflict
8 July 2025
Conventional Arms and Ammunition
Weapons and Ammunition Management Country Insight: Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
7 July 2025
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Outer Space Security Conference 2025
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Breaking the supply chain: Countering the illicit production of improvised SALW, IEDs and UAS
16 September – 2 October 2025
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2025 Innovations Dialogue: Neurotechnologies and their implications for international peace and security
24 November 2025
Conventional Arms and Ammunition
Inside the networks: How knowledge transfer drives improvised weapons production
8 December 2025
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