Armed Violence in SA SaVI Colloquium - 2 November 2013 Natalie Jaynes.

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Armed Violence in SA SaVI Colloquium - 2 November 2013 Natalie Jaynes

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Armed Violence in SASaVI Colloquium - 2 November 2013

Natalie Jaynes

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Small Arms SurveyIntroduction

Provides reliable and impartial policy-relevant analysis on small arms and armed violence.Support from governments:

• Finland• Germany• Netherlands• Norway

• Sweden• Switzerland• United Kingdom• United States

• Australia• Belgium• Canada • Denmark

Works closely with UN system & partners

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Yearbook 2013 – Everyday dangers

526,000 people die violently each year

Only 10 % can be considered direct conflict deaths

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What is Armed Violence?

“the use or threatened use of weapons to

inflict injury, death or psychosocial harm, which undermines

development” (OECD, 2009)

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South Africa

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Homicide Percentage of homicide by firearm

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Contributing/Inhibiting factors

1) Legislation2) Policing Practices3) Socio-economic

policies4) Programming5) Data / monitoring

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Policing Practices

• Use of force• Firearms• Leadership

crisis

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Inequality

“the most well established environmental determinant of levels of violence is the scale of income differences between rich and poor” (Wilkinson, 2004, p. 1).

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Small Arms Survey 2012Moving Targets

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