Open AccessHas the firearms protocol helped reduced armed violence?
Author(s) -
Anna Alvazzi del Frate,
Emile LeBrun,
Christian Ponti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2421-5635
DOI - 10.54103/cross-16847
Subject(s) - protocol (science) , computer security , convention , criminology , political science , medicine , psychology , law , computer science , alternative medicine , pathology
This paper focuses on the long-term objective of the Firearms Protocol supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to reduce certain kinds of armed violence associated with the misuse of firearms. More than 15 years after the Protocol has come into force, the authors ask how its possible impacts on armed violence might be assessed; indicate key challenges for such an enterprise, and suggest directions for future work in this area, towards the establishment of a measurement tool which could help inform the recently established Review Mechanism of the Protocol.