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| | Disarmament Diplomacy: Opinion & Analysis - The First Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms: Building Momentum ... |
 | | The BMS was part of the follow up to the Programme of Action, agreed by consensus at the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (hereafter, the Conference), held in New York in July 2001. |
 | | Regarding efforts to collect and dispose of illicit small arms and light weapons, the UNDP stated that their field experience suggests that it is of fundamental importance to capture and harness the power of communities so that they are better able to address their own concerns. |
 | | Successful national programmes of weapons collection were a combination of agreed regulatory, legislative and administrative processes, time bound amnesty, bi-party or multiparty consensus on geographical units and core groups for weapons retrieval, constituency-based advocacy for voluntary surrender, cooperation between federal, provincial, local and traditional authorities, transparency, concrete community-based incentives and stockpile management. |
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