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Dressler, Matteo, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann. 2021 ‘Peace Vs Peacebuilding Context: Two Main Types of Collection Measures.’ Forgotten Weapons? Non-regularised firearms in the European Union, p. 47. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 28 April
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According to previous research firearms collection immediately after an armed conflict typically occurs in two phases: by command (phase I) and voluntarily (phase II). (…) . During this phase (I), weapons surrender is a confidence-building measure between warring parties working to establish stability and a typical feature of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and security-sector reform (SSR) processes.
We recorded only a few collection measures that can be classified as such in Europe between 1991–2019. These measures took place in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia) and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland).
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