Subject(s): Arms control. -- Illegal arms transfers - Prevention. -- Prevention of illicit brokering of small arms and light weapons farming the issue :: International initiatives, defining arms brokering activities, defining illicit arms brokering activities, key challenges and loopholes in existing brokering controls -- National systems of licensing and registration -- Sanctions and enforcement : Conditions for prosecution, Conditions for prosecutions under international obligations of state -- Widening our understanding of brokering issue- key development : Emerging concern within the UN framework, lessons learned from sanctions and arms embargoes, regional and multilateral instrument addressing brokering activities in SALW, other processes that have contributed to development of the debate