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S I T U AT I O N U P

12 Dec 2023

Small Arms Survey SITUATION UPDATE Context Post-war security: The Small Arms Survey is undertaking several waves a slippery slope of public opinion surveys to gauge the perceptions of In the aftermath of a conflict, societies are likely to the Ukrainian population regarding the proliferation experience a surge in criminal violence, which of arms in the country and its impact on security. [...] As the war in Ukraine becomes increasingly protracted with no end in sight, the country faces This Small Arms Survey monitoring project offers the the risk of increased domestic circulation of small opportunity to observe both the extent and the way arms, generating considerable challenges for public in which firearms are present in Ukrainian households security and law enforcement forces in the y. [...] of firearm possession, when projecting the survey proportions to the entire population in the non- A significant majority of women do not think that occupied parts of Ukraine, it suggests that having a firearm is a necessity for themselves, with somewhere between 865,000 and 1.42 million of 73 per cent expressing this opinion, as opposed to the approximately 13 million resident households8 51 per. [...] In contrast, between 43 and 46 per cent 7 Not only to measure the possession of firearms reported by the informant, but also to estimate the presence of firearms in the local area through the Network Scale-Up Method. [...] firearms from the areas of military operations in light This Situation Update has been prepared as part of the of the non-proliferation framework embraced by the project Supporting Ukraine in Addressing the Risks of Ukrainian authorities; however, in anticipation of a Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation Arising from certain level of firearms proliferation despite these the Russian War of Ag.
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