Subject(s): Armed Violence -- Small Arms -- Disarmament as humanitarian action: from perspective to practice -- Bipolar disorder, Humanitarian perspective -- Mitigating the effects of armed violence through disarmament: counting the human costs -- Different security concepts, Research in support of policy, Understanding the humanitarian effects of arms, empirical research supporting complex negotiations -- Disarmament as humanitarian action, Comparing negotiation on anti-personal mines and explosive remnants of war -- Civil society and government dynamics, during the mine ban convention process, civil society and government dynamics during the CCW ERW process -- Role of landmine monitor in promoting and monitoring compliance with the 1997 anti-personnel mine ban convention -- ICBL and its landmine monitor initiatives, Promoting and monitoring states parties compliance: Landmine Monitor's role , Impact on non-states parties -- Gender analysis as a toll for multilateral negotiators in the small arms context -- Changing nature of warfare, Identifying the gendered effects of small arms, social structures, Gender analysis as a tool that helps multilateral negotiators -- Small arms and the Geneva forum: Disarmament as humanitarian action -- Orgins of international efforts on small arms, Difficulties in the UN conference process, Geneva process on small arms , Disarmament as Humanitarian action