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February 27, 2013
Volume 64 | Issue 13
THE PACE PRESS SERVING PACE UNIVERSITY’S MANHATTAN CAMPUS SINCE 1948
OLIVIA BETETA Arts Editor
One person dies every minute from armed violence. In that time, 15 new arms are manufactured. The not-so-startling reality of arms violence is an international issue that for the past decade has been swept under the rug. In an effort to enlighten students and create an open forum, the residential advisory staff from the Fulton St. Residence invited Control Arms for their “Know Your Right” event. Control Arms is a campaign involving over 100 organizations worldwide. The coalition includes well-known organizations such as Oxfam and Amnesty International. The battle began in 2001, when a non-legally binding program called “Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects” was developed at a UN conference. A few years later in 2003, The Control Arms coalition began. Nobel Peace Laureates in collaboration with civil society organizations worldwide worked together to create an arms trade treaty, known as ATT. Then, in 2006 Control Arms summited the “Million Faces” petition to
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then UN secretary Kofi Annan. In December of that same year, 153 governments voted to begin development on the ATT. Arms trade refers to the buying and selling of firearms or any other type of military weaponry and is classified in one of three levels: White, grey and black. The white market refers to the legal buying and selling of arms. It is the trade between two or more consenting countries with the understanding the weapons will not be used for the degradation of human rights. Grey markets fall in the area between the violations of international norms. Andrew Feinstein, a former member of the African National Congress, described the grey market as where “governments attempt to influence foreign policy covertly through the use of illegal dealers to undertake arms transactions on their behalf. A well-known example would be the Iran-Contra deal, perhaps the most cynical arms deal of all time.” Black market trading is vastly more difficult to define and equally difficult to
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