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FMO Research guide: small arms and forced migration Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE REFERENCE MATERIALS CONFLICT WEAPONS PROTECTION HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW FORCED MIGRATION This FMO research guide is a thematic guide on Small arms, which provides a general overview and introduces key issues with regard to forced migration, guiding the user to relevant resources, key websites and documents available online. This research guide charts the international dimensions of small arms production, stockpiles and trade for researchers interested in better understanding the magnitude and dimensions of the issue. It then describes how the humanitarian and development community, including those partially responsible for ensuring the protection and assistance of forcibly displaced people, has started to respond to the issue. Three approaches have emerged - perspectives that simultaneously address the supply of small arms and states that violate human rights and international humanitarian law; the issue of demand and the need for better enforcement of international humanitarian law among armed actors; and the operational security risks at the field level. The guide concludes with a discussion of the human costs of small arms - and the relationships between small arms availability and forced displacement, refugee camp militarization. 2026-09-30T11:52:31Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33358089.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/FMO_Research_guide_small_arms_and_forced_migration/33358089 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0