ABSTRACT Growing in range and urgency, humanitarian needs now pose increasingly acute questions for national security policy formulation. Whether over forced migration, food scarcity or nefarious electronic penetration, state security preferences face uneasy accommodations with individual needs be it for child survival, basic sustenance or rights to privacy. This paper deliberates a further field of increasingly apparent value contest: that involving the transfer, diversion and lethal use of small arms and light weapons (SALW). After outlining the scale of this phenomenon, existing regulatory mechanisms over SALW transfers are assessed. It is argued that these controls are inadequate, a deficiency that is embedded within a range of inter-linked disjunctions. They are outlined in a model that is evaluated against empirical findings. Where SALW control inadequacy is causally connected to the disjunctive model, it is argued, current levels of SALW-induced casualties are unlikely to abate. The paper concludes by considering feasible options for enhanced management of global SALW proliferation.

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小武器和轻武器：分离问题

摘要范围和紧迫性日益增长，人道主义需求现在对制定国家安全政策提出了越来越尖锐的问题。无论是由于强迫迁徙，粮食短缺还是邪恶的电子渗透，国家安全的偏爱都面临着个人需求的不便，无论是儿童生存，基本生活或隐私权。本文探讨了越来越明显的价值竞争的另一个领域：涉及小武器和轻武器（SALW）的转让，转移和致命使用。在概述了这种现象的严重程度之后，对现有的小武器和轻武器转移监管机制进行了评估。有人认为，这些控制是不充分的，这是一系列相互联系的析取物中嵌入的一种缺陷。在根据经验发现进行评估的模型中概述了它们。有人认为，在轻小武器控制不力与分离模型有因果关系的地方，目前由轻小武器引起的人员伤亡水平不可能减轻。本文最后通过考虑可行的方案来加强对全球轻小武器扩散的管理。