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The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), which is an autonomous institute within the UN, conducts research on disarmament and security issues in order to assist the international community in its disarmament thinking, decisions and efforts. Through its research projects, publications, small meetings and expert networks, UNIDIR promotes creative thinking and dialogue on contemporary and future disarmament and security challenges. This UNIDIR publication series aims primarily at educating and informing diplomatic, academic and NGO communities that are concerned with arms control and disarmament issues. It includes short reports of meetings, books as well as reference materials.

Publishers:	United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Publications:	Supply Chain Security in the Cyber Age: Sector Trends, Current Threats and Multi-stakeholder Responses Is Past Prologue? Examining NPT Review Conference Commitments The 2020 NPT Review Conference: Prepare for Plan B Eyes on the Sky: Rethinking Verification in Space The 2019 Innovations Dialogue. Digital Technologies and International Security Opportunities to Strengthen Military Policies and Practices to Reduce Civilian Harm from Explosive Weapons: Food-for-Thought Paper The Role of Data in Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Primer Watch Them Go: Simplifying the Elimination of Fissile Materials and Nuclear Weapons Building the Bridge: Commentary on Arms Control to Reduce Violence, Prevent Conflict and Advance Sustainable Development Still Behind the Curve Key Issues and Processes Pertinent to the Management of Conventional Ammunition Utilizing the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines in Conflict-Affected and Low-Capacity Environments The Role of Weapon and Ammunition Management in Preventing Conflict and Supporting Security Transitions Preventing Diversion in Conventional Arms Transfers: Exploring Contributions of Industry and Private Sector Actors The Changing Role of Conventional Arms Control in Preventing and Managing Violent Conflicts Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons in North East Asia The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies: Artificial Intelligence The United Nations, Cyberspace and International Peace and Security: Responding to Complexity in the 21st Century Examining the Roles, Responsibilities and Potential Contributions of Private Sector Industry Actors in Stemming the Flow of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and Related Materials Examining Common Regional Understandings to Strengthen End Use/r Control Systems to Prevent Arms Diversion The NPT and the Prohibition Negotiation: Scope for Bridge-Building Application of Global Voluntary Standards and Guidelines to Strengthen Weapon and Ammunition Management (WAM) in Conflict-affected Settings Understanding Nuclear Weapon Risks Lock them Up: Zero-Deployed Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe The Role and Importance of the Hague Conferences: A Historical Perspective FM(C)T Meeting Series: Addressing Disparities in a Non-Discriminatory Fissile Material Treaty Examining Common Regional Understandings to Strengthen End Use/r Control Systems to Prevent Arms Diversion: Africa Examining Common Subregional Understandings to Strengthen End Use/r Control Systems to Prevent Arms Diversion FM(C)T: Elements of the Emerging Consensus Safety, Unintentional Risk and Accidents in the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies Gender, Development and Nuclear Weapons: Shared Goals, Shared Concerns Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations: The 2016 Open-ended Working Group Taking Security Forward: Building on the 2015 Report of the GGE Nuclear Disarmament Verification: Survey of Verification Mechanisms UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2016: Sustaining the Momentum: The Current Status of Space Security Report of the International Security Cyber Issues Workshop Series Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty: Definitions, Verification, and Scope Understanding the Reverberating Effects of Explosive Weapons: A Way Forward Verifiable Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks: Challenges and Solutions A Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Issues The Treatment of the Issue of Nuclear Disarmament since the Open-Ended Working Group in 2013 Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty: Elements of the Emerging Consensus International Law and State Behaviour in Cyberspace Series Towards Cyber Stability: A User-Centred Tool for Policymakers Analysing Effective Measures NPT Success and the Humanitarian Initiative On Builders and Blockers On the Ethics of Nuclear Weapons The Humanitarian Initiative in 2015 International Law and State Behaviour in Cyberspace Series: Africa Regional Seminar Examining Options and Models for Harmonization of End Use/r Control Systems The Realities of Middle Power Space Reliance The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies in the Maritime Environment International Law and State Behaviour in Cyberspace Series UNIDIR Cyber Stability Seminar 2015: Regime Coherence UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2015 Addressing Improvised Explosive Devices The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies Regional Perspectives on Norms of Behaviour for Outer Space Activities UNIDIR Cyber Stability Seminar 2014: Preventing Cyber Conflict An Analysis of Emerging Space Capabilities in Eurasia and Rising Security Tensions Framing Discussions on the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies Weapons and Ammunition Management in the Federal Republic of Somalia A Prototype for Evidence-Based Programme Design for Reintegration Norms of Behaviour, Barriers to Entry? UNIDIR Space Security 2014 Conference A Harmful Legacy: The Lingering Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Testing A Limit to Safety: Risk, 'Normal Accident', and Nuclear Weapons Gendered Impacts: The Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons from a Gender Perspective Legal Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Population Displacement: Displacement in the Aftermath of Nuclear Weapon Detonation Events The Story So Far: The Humanitarian Initiative on the Impacts of Nuclear Weapons An Illusion of Safety: Challenges of Nuclear Weapon Detonations for United Nations Humanitarian Coordination and Response The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies Emerging Security Threats Framing Meeting UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2013 The Cyber Index: International Security Trends and Realities The IAEA Additional Protocol after the 2010 NPT Review Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Viewing Nuclear Weapons Through a Humanitarian Lens UNIDIR Cyber Security Conference 2012 (CS12) A New START Model for Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament Building Peace and Stability Through Economic Reconstruction Norms of Behaviour The Private Sector, Peacebuilding and the International Anti-Corruption Agenda The Role of Norms of Behaviour in African Outer Space Activities Report on African Regional Seminar and Outreach Initiatives for the Facilitation of the Development of an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities The United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament Seeking Comprehensive Solutions in Space Report on American Regional Seminar and Outreach Initiatives for the Facilitation of the Development of an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities Report on Eurasian Regional Seminar and Outreach Initiatives for the Facilitation of the Development of an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities After Oslo: Humanitarian Perspectives and the Changing Nuclear Weapons Discourse A New START Model for Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament The Treatment of the Issue of Nuclear Disarmament in Relevant Forums Established by the United Nations Viewing Nuclear Weapons through a Humanitarian Lens A Peer-Review Mechanism for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Prospects for Nuclear Power in the Middle East after Fukushima and the Arab Spring World Nuclear Industry: Renaissance or Decline? Challenges of Protecting US Nuclear Weapon Materials The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index Protecting Civilians from the Effects of Explosive Weapons Reducing Alert Rates of Nuclear Weapons A Brief Overview of Norms Development in Outer Space Transparency in Nuclear Disarmament The Conference on Disarmament: Issues and Insights Disposition of Excess Military Nuclear Material Disposition of Excess Russian Weapon HEU and Plutonium Universalization of Comprehensive Safeguards—Next Steps Practical Steps Towards Transparency of Nuclear Arsenals Transparency in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime A Decade of Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons A Framework Document for Evidence-Based Programme Design on Reintegration UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2012 Global Nuclear Security Breaking the Ice in the Conference on Disarmament New Types and Systems of WMD Transparency in Armaments Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare: Preliminary Assessment of National Doctrine and Organization Cyberwarfare and International Law Improving Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Space Security 2010 Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (2) Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty Searching for Aid Effectiveness in Small Arms Assistance Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (1) Fissile Material Negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament International Assistance for Implementing the UN Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects Space Security 2009 Comparative Analysis of Post-Manufacture Marking Instruments and Practices for Small Arms and Light Weapons Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Implementing the UN Programme of Action EU–UN Cooperation in Peacebuilding Unfinished Business: The Negotiation of the CTBT and the End of Nuclear Testing Implementing the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons The Value of Diversity in Multilateral Disarmament Work Implementing the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons The Security Needs Assessment Protocol Security in Space The Humanitarian Impact of Cluster Munitions Implications of States' Views on an Arms Trade Treaty Implementing Resolution 1540: The Role of Regional Organizations Celebrating the Space Age Analysis of States' Views on an Arms Trade Treaty International Assistance for Implementing the UN Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects: Case Study of East Africa Thinking Outside the Box in Multilateral Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations International Assistance for Implementing the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects European Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War Building the Architecture for Sustainable Space Security Disarmament as Humanitarian Action From Research to Road Map Developing a Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons International Assistance for Implementing the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects International Assistance for Implementing the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects Costs of Disarmament Five Years of Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons Cluster Munitions in Albania and Lao PDR Safeguarding Space Security Regional Initiatives on Nuclear- and WMD-Free Zones Listening for a Change! Multilateral Diplomacy and the NPT Comparative Analysis of Evaluation Methodologies in Weapons Collection Programmes Common Security in Outer Space and International Law Safeguarding Space for All From Exchanging Weapons for Development to Security Sector Reform in Albania Alternative Approaches in Multilateral Decision Making After Non-Detection, What? What Iraq’s Unfound WMD Mean for the Future of Non-Proliferation Building a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East A Guide to the Destruction of Small Arms and Light Weapons Exchanging Weapons for Development in Mali Implementing the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons Coming to Terms with Security: Lexicon for Arms Control, Disarmament and Confidence-Building Participatory Monitoring of Humanitarian Mine Action Costs of Disarmament - Disarming the Costs Destroying Surplus Weapons Internal Conflict and Regional Security in South Asia Costs of Disarmament - Mortgaging the Future Outer Space and Global Security Missile Defence, Deterrence and Arms Control: Contradictory Aims or Compatible Goals? The Scope and Implications of a Tracing Mechanism for Small Arms and Light Weapons Project Coast: Apartheid’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme Tactical Nuclear Weapons Disarmament as Humanitarian Action West Africa Small Arms Moratorium The Implications of South Asia's Nuclear Tests for the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regimes Fissile Material Stocks

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