Lars Wirkus @ Grebel on June 14th

[Kelly Brown]

Lars Wirkus, current Senior Researcher and Head of Section Data and Geomatics at the BICC<https://www.bicc.de/>, will be presenting a talk entitled "Arms control - Examples of web-based interactive tools to increase global knowledge and transparency" on June 14th, 2016, at Conrad Grebel University College in Room 2202, at 12 noon, sponsored by BSIA and PACS. Lars will present three tools the BICC has developed to address issues related to armament and arms control.
SALW Guide
BICC's Interactive Guide on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), initially being developed as a German contribution to the UN Programme of Action (PoA) to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, is an open accessible multi- language database on small arms and light weapons. Among other things, the Guide aims to answer questions like what types of small arms and light weapons can be found in which countries; where and which types of small arms are produced by which country; and how to distinguish different categories and even types of small arms and light weapons from one another.

GMI - The Global Militarization Index
With its Global Militarization Index (GMI), BICC is able to objectively depict worldwide militarization for the first time. The GMI compares, for example, a country's military expenditure with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its health expenditure.  It contrasts the total number of military and paramilitary forces in a country with the number of physicians. Finally, it studies the number of heavy weapons available to a country's armed forces. These and other indicators are used to determine a country's ranking, which in turn makes it possible to measure the respective level of militarization in comparison to other countries.

Arms Export Database

On this website BICC<http://www.bicc.de/> publishes different data sets concerning the military sector, overall security environment, human rights situation and governance in all together 170 countries. The range of information is supposed to support, improve and facilitate an evaluation of German arms exports and is therefore based on the criteria spelled out in the European Union's 2008 Common Position that includes the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Export<http://ruestungsexport.info/index.php/eu_ausfuhr> (German). Besides detailed country reports<http://ruestungsexport.info/index.php/laenderportraits> (in German only) for more than 25 selected recipient states of German arms exports outside of NATO, a large database<http://ruestungsexport.info/index.php/db> examines the correspondence of 170 countries to seven evaluation criteria, which are based upon the EU Common Position (2008/944/CFSP) on arms exports.
Hope to see you there.
Kelly
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Kelly Brown
Administrative & Graduate Studies Coordinator
Peace and Conflict Studies
Conrad Grebel University College
519-885-0220 x24216
km4brown at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:km4brown at uwaterloo.ca>
http://uwaterloo.ca/pacs
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