Nicholas Marsh

Senior Researcher

Nicholas Marsh
Additional position(s):
Health and Safety Representative (Verneombud)

Email: nic@prio.org
Twitter: @NISATprio @marshynic
CV: Download CV

Research Interests

NISAT online database and archive of small arms transfers, production, and regulations. See http://nisat.prio.org 

Twitter account on the small arms trade at @NisatPrio 

Primary:

  • Global trade in small arms and light weapons.
  • Relationship between arms, governance and violence.
  • Arms trafficking.
  • Data and methodology used to research the trade in small arms and light weapons.
  • Arms acquisition by non-state parties involved in civil war.
  • Arms export and transfer controlls.

Secondary:

  • The role of regional organisations (in the arms trade).
  • The EU's security and foreign policy (as concerns arms).
  • Multilateral diplomacy (concerning arms control).
  • Armed violence.
  • Homicide (with firearms).
  • Conflict deaths (with small arms and light weapons).

Background

​​​​Languages spoken:

English, learning Norwegian

Work experience:

2014 - 2015 

Consultant to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, worked on a global report on firearms trafficking.  

2004 - 2008
Chair, European research Network COST Action A25 'European Small Arms and the Perpetuation of Violence'

2001 - present
Research Fellow, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

2001 - present
Consultant to the Small Arms Survey (work on the global trade in small arms and light weapons)

1995 - 2001
Several positions, including work for the UK Defence Forum. 

Education:

Dr.Philos, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo - 2020

MA International Conflict Analysis - University of Kent at Canterbury - 1994-1995

BSc Economics - International Relations and Area Studies (East Asia) - University of Wales, Aberystwyth - 1991-1994

Research Groups

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Associated member:

PRIO Departments

Current
Historical

PRIO Projects

Ongoing:
Finished:

Events

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

Publications

​From 2012, PRIO Researchers will register their publications in a national database called CRISTIN. Go to Nic Marsh's CRISTIN page.

Recent Publications

Marsh, Nicholas & Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva (2022) Consequences of the Invasion of Ukraine for Migration from the Global South, PRIO Policy Brief, 12. Oslo: PRIO.
Palik, Júlia; Mauricio Rivera; Nicholas Marsh & David Felipe Gómez Triana (2022) Disaggregating Security Specific Provisions In Peace Agreements: The Disarmament, Demobilization, And Reintegration (DDR) Dataset, 1975-2021, presented at AFK Empirical Peace and Conflict Research Workshop, Sandbjerg, Denmark, 28 September – 1 October, 2022..
Carrozza, Ilaria & Nicholas Marsh (2022) Great Power Competition and China’s Security Assistance to Africa: Arms, Training, and Influence, Journal of Global Security Studies 7(4): 1–22.
Marsh, Nicholas; Ida Rudolfsen & Siri Aas Rustad (2022) Protest and Insecurity: Trends in the Global South since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Conflict Trends, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Baev, Pavel K.; Nicholas Marsh & Harry Tzimitras (2022) Energy Crisis Amidst the Ukraine War: Three Scenarios, PRIO Policy Brief, 7. Oslo: PRIO.
Baev, Pavel K.; Nicholas Marsh & Harry Tzimitras (2022) The Energy Crisis Hits Europe: Resonances for the Global South and Climate Change, PRIO Policy Brief, 4. Oslo: PRIO.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Carrozza, Ilaria & Nicholas Marsh (2022) Great Power Competition and China’s Security Assistance to Africa: Arms, Training, and Influence, Journal of Global Security Studies 7(4): 1–22.
Marsh, Nicholas & Øystein H. Rolandsen (2021) Fragmented We Fall: Security Sector Cohesion and the Impact of Foreign Security Force Assistance in Mali, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2021.1988226: 614–629.
Marsh, Nicholas & Topher McDougal (2020) Illicit Small Arms Prices: Introducing Two New Datasets, Defence and Peace Economics. DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2020.1757348.
McDougal, Topher; Athena Kolbe; Robert Muggah & Nicholas Marsh (2018) Ammunition leakage from military to civilian markets: market price evidence from Haiti, 2004–2012, Defence and Peace Economics. DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1492226.
Marsh, Nicholas (2017) Brothers Came Back with Weapons: The Effects of Arms Proliferation from Libya, PRISM 6(4): 79–96.
Marsh, Nicholas (2015) Firearms Seizures and Trafficking: A «Local» Phenomenon, The Strategic Trade Review 1(1): 73–87.
Hansen, Susanne & Nicholas Marsh (2014) Normative power and organized hypocrisy: European Union member states’ arms export to Libya, European Security 24(2): 264–286.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Conflict Specific Capital: The Role of Weapons Acquisition in Civil War, International Studies Perspectives 8(1): 54–72.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Taming the Tools of Violence, Journal of Public Health Policy 28(4): 401–409.

PhD Thesis

Marsh, Nicholas (2020) Because We Have the Maxim Gun The Relationship between Arms Acquisition by Non-State Groups and Violence. PhD thesis, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Monograph

Holden, Paul; Sarah Detzner; Bridget Conley-Zilkic; Alex de Waal; John Dunne; Andrew Feinstein; William Hartung; Paul Holtom; Lora Lumpe; Nicholas Marsh; Sam Perlo-Freeman; Hennie van Vuuren & Leah Wawro (2017) Indefensible Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade. London: Zed.

Book Chapter

Marsh, Nicholas & Lauren Pinson (2021) Arms trafficking, in The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. London: Routledge (213–227).
Marsh, Nicholas (2017) Angola, in Alusala, Nelson; & Mothepa Shadung, eds, Arms brokering in Southern Africa. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (1–8).
Marsh, Nicholas (2017) Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Alusala, Nelson; & Mothepa Shadung, eds, Arms brokering in Southern Africa. Pretoria: Institute For Security Studies (14–24).
Marsh, Nicholas (2017) Mozambique, in Alusala, Nelson; & Mothepa Shadung, eds, Arms brokering in Southern Africa. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (45–53).
Greene, Owen & Nicholas Marsh (2016) A violência armada em sociedades não envolvidas em conflictos violentos, in Moura, Tatiana; José Manuel Pureza; & Rita Santos, eds, Violências e armas de fogo em Portugal. Coimbra: Livraria Almedina (31–86).
Marsh, Nicholas & Atina Karim (2015) Article 13 Reporting, in Wood, Brian; & Clare da Silva, eds, Weapons and International Law: the Arms Trade Treaty. Brussels, Ghent, Luxembourg, Paris: Larcier (213–230).
Grzybowski, Janis; Nicholas Marsh & Matt Schroeder (2012) Piece by Piece Authorized Transfers of Parts and Accessories, in Glenn MacDonald, ed., Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (240–281).
Greene, Owen & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Introduction, in Greene, Owen; & Nicholas Marsh, eds, Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge (1–11).
Kreutz, Joakim & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Lethal Instruments: Small Arms and Deaths in Armed Conflict, in Greene , Owen ; & Nicholas Marsh, eds, Small Arms, Crime and Conflict global governance and the threat of armed violence. London: Routledge (43–63).
Herron, Patrick; Matt Schroeder ; Jasna Lazarevic & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Larger but Less Known: Authorized Light Weapons Transfers, in The Small Arms Survey 2011: States of Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (8–41).
Greene , Owen & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Conclusions and Priorities for Further Research, in Nicholas Marsh, ed., Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge (248–262).
Marsh, Nicholas & Owen Greene (2011) Governance and Small Arms and Light Weapons, in Nicholas Marsh, ed., Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge (163–182).
Jackson, Thomas & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Guns and Deaths: A Critical Review, in Nicholas Marsh, ed., Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge (105–121).
Kreutz, Joakim ; Manuela Torre & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Regaining State Control: Arms and Violence in Post-conflict Countries, in Greene , Owen ; & Nicholas Marsh, eds, Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge (64–76).
Greene , Owen & Nicholas Marsh (2011) Armed Violence within Societies, in Greene , Owen ; & Nicholas Marsh, eds, Small Arms, Crime and Conflict Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London and New York : Routledge (79–104).
Herron, Patrick; Jasna Lazarevic ; Nicholas Marsh & Matt Schroeder (2010) Emerging From Obscurity: The Global Ammunition Trade, in Berman, Eric G.; Keith Krause; Glenn MacDonald; & Emile LeBrun, eds, Small Arms Survey 2010 Gangs Groups and Guns. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (7–39).
Dreyfus, Pablo; Jasna Lazarevic; Nicholas Marsh & Matt Schroeder (2009) Sifting the Sources: Authorized Small Arms Transfers, in Le Brun, Emile; Eric G. Berman; Keith Krause; & Glenn McDonald, eds, Small Arms Survey 2009: Shadows of War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (6–59).
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) The Nordic Countries and Conventional Arms Control: The Case of Small Arms and Light Weapons, in The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy. Oxford: SIPRI.
Jackson, Thomas; Nicholas Marsh & Anne Thurin (2005) The Efficacy of EU Export Control Measures Concerning Small Arms and Light Weapons, in Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfers. Geneva: UNIDIR (53–78).
Marsh, Nicholas & Aaron Karp (2003) Insights and Mysteries: Global Small Arms Transfers, in Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied. Oxford: Small Arms Survey (97–123).

Edited Volume

Greene , Owen ; & Nicholas Marsh, eds, (2011) Small Arms, Crime and Conflict: Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence. London: Routledge. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict.

Non-refereed Journal Article

Aden, Hassan & Nicholas Marsh (2022) Security Logics of Africa’s Divided Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Strategic Review of Southern Africa 44(1): 111–114.
Marsh, Nicholas (2019) Preventing Diversion: A Challenge for Arms Trade Treaty States Parties, History of Global Arms Transfer 8: 55–66.
Marsh, Nicholas (2018) The Availability Puzzle: Considering the Relationship between Arms and Violence Taking Place within States, The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer 6(2): 3–21.
Marsh, Nicholas (2013) What has the Arms Trade Treaty done for us?, Peace in Progress 16: 4–5.
Marsh, Nicholas (2003) Significant Exporters of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Human Security Bulletin 1(4).
Marsh, Nicholas (2002) Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Legal and Illegal Trade in Small Arms, Brown Journal of World Affairs 9(1).

Popular Article

Marsh, Nicholas (2022) Ukraine Food Export Agreement: Not Yet Delivering, PRIO Blogs, 17 August.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Maral Mirshahi & Nicholas Marsh (2014) Killer robots – hvorfor ønsker man et forbud? [Killer Robots - The Quest for a Ban], NRK Ytring, 12 May.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Nicholas Marsh (2014) Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Issues for the International Community, Security & Defence Agenda, 9 May.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Nicholas Marsh & Maral Mirshahi (2014) The Struggle to Ban Killer Robots, Bullentin of Atomic Scientists, 7 May.
Marsh, Nicholas (2013) Ambition and activism on the arms trade, Reinventing Peace, 1 July.
Ormhaug, Christin Marsh & Nicholas Marsh (2006) Kontroll med våpenhandelen? [Control over the Arms Trade?], Dagbladet, 17 January.

Conference Paper

Palik, Júlia; Mauricio Rivera; Nicholas Marsh & David Felipe Gómez Triana (2022) Disaggregating Security Specific Provisions In Peace Agreements: The Disarmament, Demobilization, And Reintegration (DDR) Dataset, 1975-2021, presented at AFK Empirical Peace and Conflict Research Workshop, Sandbjerg, Denmark, 28 September – 1 October, 2022..
Marsh, Nicholas & Marie Sandnes (2019) Institutional Amnesia? A Long-Term Perspective on Remote Warfare, presented at Conceptualizing Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future, University of Kent, 28 February – 1 March.
Marsh, Nicholas & Øystein H. Rolandsen (2019) The impact of foreign security force assistance on security and governance in Mali, presented at 8th European Conference on African Studies, Edinburgh, 11–14 June.
Marsh, Nicholas (2018) Relationships between Arms Availability and Violence, presented at Relationships between Arms Availability and Violence, Meiji University, Tokyo, 28 March.
Marsh, Nicholas & Øystein H. Rolandsen (2018) The impact of foreign security force assistance on security and governance in Mali, presented at Workshop on Security Force Assistance in Fragile States, Peace Research Institute Oslo, 5–7 December.
Marsh, Nicholas (2013) Aiming for Control: the need to include ammunition in the arms trade treaty, presented at Side event at the United Nations conference to negotiate the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, 21.03.13 – 21.03.13.
Marsh, Nicholas (2013) Visualizing the Arms Trade: the need for public reporting, presented at Side event at the United Nations conference to negotiate the Arms Trade Treaty, United Nations, New York, 25.03.13 – 25.03.13.
Jackson, Thomas & Nicholas Marsh (2008) Causes and Costs of Gun Violence: A Critical EvaluationBrussels, Belgium, 17–19 March.
Marsh, Nicholas (2008) Dangerous Dealings: Arms Brokering and Regulations in Southern AfricaNew York, 18 July.
Jackson, Thomas; Nicholas Marsh & Julian Wagstaff (2007) Counting Guns - The NISAT Datasets on Small Arms Trade, presented at 11th Annual Conference on Economics and Security, Bristol, 5–7 July.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Disarm or Perish - Is Disarmament a Necessary Condition for Peace?, presented at COST Action A25 Working Group Meeting on Small Arms Acquisition and Conflict, Nicosia, 28–29 May.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Arms Transfers to Proxies in Darfur, presented at COST Action A25 Working Group Meeting on Small Arms Acquisition and Conflict, Nicosia, 28–29 May.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Tracking the Guns: International Diversion of Small Arms to Illicit Markets in Rio de JaneiroBrussels, Belgium, 16 May.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Disarm or Perish - Is Disarmament a Necessary Condition for Peace?Cape Town, 26–28 November.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) From Laws to Practice – Options for Regulatory Controls Over Arms Brokering, presented at a workshop on 'Control Over Brokering in SALW in SEE and the Caucasus', Zagreb, Croatia, 29–30 March.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Controlling Arms BrokeringPalias des Nations, Geneva, 27 November.
Widmer, Mireille; Nicholas Marsh & Maria Karapetyan (2006) Independent Summary of Statements, presented at Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, New York, 9–17 January.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Brokering of Small Arms and Light Weapons, presented at Meeting of the Small Arms Working Group, New York, 13 April.

PRIO Policy Brief

Marsh, Nicholas & Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva (2022) Consequences of the Invasion of Ukraine for Migration from the Global South, PRIO Policy Brief, 12. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas; Ida Rudolfsen & Siri Aas Rustad (2022) Protest and Insecurity: Trends in the Global South since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Conflict Trends, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Baev, Pavel K.; Nicholas Marsh & Harry Tzimitras (2022) Energy Crisis Amidst the Ukraine War: Three Scenarios, PRIO Policy Brief, 7. Oslo: PRIO.
Baev, Pavel K.; Nicholas Marsh & Harry Tzimitras (2022) The Energy Crisis Hits Europe: Resonances for the Global South and Climate Change, PRIO Policy Brief, 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Ida Rudolfsen (2022) Food Insecurity and Social Instability in Light of the Ukraine-Russia War, PRIO Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Ida Rudolfsen (2022) The Role of the Invasion of Ukraine in the 2022 Food Supply Crisis, PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Gómez, David Felipe; Ida Rødningen; Nicholas Marsh & Júlia Palik (2022) Negotiating Disarmament – The Gender Dimension: Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Disarmament Negotiations, GPS Policy Brief, 5. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Ilaria Carrozza (2021) Human Rights Violations and the Security Forces in Mali and Niger, PRIO Policy Brief, 14. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Júlia Palik (2021) Negotiating Disarmament: Lessons Learnt from Colombia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, PRIO Policy Brief, 9. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2020) Exporting Coercive Power: Regulations and Best Practices for Security Force Assistance, PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Rolandsen, Øystein H.; Ilaria Carrozza & Nicholas Marsh (2019) Small States’ Security Force Assistance in the Sahel: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges, PRIO Policy Brief, 13. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2014) Defining the Scope of Autonomy, PRIO Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.

PRIO Paper

Carrozza, Ilaria; Nicholas Marsh & Gregory M. Reichberg (2022) Dual-Use AI Technology in China, the US and the EU: Strategic Implications for the Balance of Power, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Júlia Palik (2021) Negotiating Disarmament: Lessons Learnt from Colombia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas; Øystein H. Rolandsen; Julian Karssen & Marie Sandnes (2020) Compounding Fragmentation: Security Force Assistance to Fragile States in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Gugu Dube (2014) Preventing Diversion: The Importance of Stockpile Management, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Corney, Neil & Nicholas Marsh (2013) Aiming for Control: The need to include ammunition in the Arms Trade Treaty, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Report - Other

Marsh, Nicholas (2008) Small Arms Imports and Exports by Central American States 2000-6.
Marsh, Nicholas; & Thomas Jackson (2007) Weapons Acquisition by Armed Groups in the Sudan Conflict Complex – A Review of Open SourcesOslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2007) Narrative and Financial Report to the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Activities of the NISAT Small Arms Project during 2006Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas; & Thomas Jackson (2007) Annual Progress Report for COST Action A25 European Small Arms and the Perpetutation of Violence.
Marsh, Nicholas; & Thomas Jackson (2006) Dataset of International Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons, for the EU Commission's Joint Research Centre. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Evading European Controls on Arms TransfersOslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Activities of the NISAT project during 2005Oslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) The Activities of Akire Nemoto and Shimon YelinekOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas; & Thomas Jackson (2006) Estimated Number of Firearms Transferred During 2004Oslo.
Jackson, Thomas; & Nicholas Marsh (2006) Global Re-exports of Small Arms and Light WeaponsOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Imports of Small Arms and Light Weapons by the Government of Sudan 1992-2004Oslo.
Jackson, Thomas; & Nicholas Marsh (2006) Number of Units of Firearms Transferred as Reported to ComtradeOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas; & Thomas Jackson (2006) European Small Arms and the Perpetuation of ViolenceOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Global Small Arms Trade - Updated Agglomerated TablesOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2006) Estimating Guns: The Methodology of Estimating the Number of Firearms Transferred from Statistics on the Total Value of TransfersOslo.
Buchanan, Cate; Anne-Kathrin Glatz; Mireille Widmer; Nicholas Marsh; & Maria Karapetyan (2006) Overview of Governmental Statements, UN Small Arms Preparatory Committee. New York.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Accounting Guns: The Methodology Used in Developing Data Tables for the Small Arms Survey, Memorandum. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Options for States Interested in Further Extending Regulatory Controls Over Brokering Small Arms and Light Weapons, Memorandum written for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Chair’s Review of the First Two Years of COST Action 25Oslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Accounting Guns: The Methodology Used in Developing Data Tables for the Small Arms SurveyOslo: NISAT/PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) Activities of the NISAT small arms project during 2004, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2005) The Methodology Used in Creating a Comtrade Based Dataset of Small Arms TransfersOslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2003) Evidence from Open Sources of: Nammo Multipurpose Ammunition Being Used in an Anti-personnel Role, or Procured with that Intention; and the Proliferation of Nammo 12.7mm Multipurpose Ammunition.
Marsh, Nicholas (2003) Counting Guns - The Methodology of Aggregating Small Arms Customs DataOslo.
Marsh, Nicholas (2003) Selling Guns to Murderers, Small Arms Survey. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas (2003) Selling guns to murderersOslo.
Lumpe, Lora; & Nicholas Marsh (2001) Gathering the Facts on the Small Arms Trade. Report to the Ford Foundation on an internet-based database on small arms transfers in conjunction with the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT).

Report - External Series

Camello, Maria; Shannon Dick; Ryan Fletcher; Luisa Fonteny; Roy Isbister; Elizabeth Kirkham; Nicholas Marsh; Yannick Quéau; Carina Solmirano; Rachel Stohl; Katherine Young; Carina Solmirano; Daniel Mack; & Katherine Young, eds, (2020) Arms Trade Treaty Monitor Report 2020, ATT Monitor. .
Baranouski, Elise; Verity Coyle; Anna Crowe; Shannon Dick; Ishtiaq Khan; Nicholas Marsh; Jillian Rafferty; Anna Stavrianakis; Rachel Stohl; Katherine Young; Verity Coyle; & Katherine Young, eds, (2019) ATT Monitor Report 2019, ATT Monitor. Control Arms.
Dick, Shannon; Bruno Hellendorf; Ishtiaq Khan; Nicholas Marsh; Robert Muggah; Robert Perkins; Rachel Stohl; Nathan Thompson; Katherine Aguirre Tobón; Pieter Wezeman; Siemon Wezeman; & Katherine Young (2018) ATT Monitor Report 2018, ATT Monitor Annual Repot. ATT Monitor.
Dick, Shannon; Camelia Fatema; Ishtiaq Khan; Shara Khandakar; Daniel Mack; Nicholas Marsh; Farzana Mir; Alavi Mirza; Robert Perkins; Deepayan Ray; & Rachel Stohl (2017) ATT Monitor Report 2017, ATT Monitor. New York: Control Arms.
Bromley, Mark; Shannon Dick; Elizabeth Kirkham; Ishtiaq Khan; Stuart Maslan; Nicholas Marsh; Robert Perkins; Deepayan Ray; Anna Stavrianakis; Rachel Stohl; & An Vranckx (2016) ATT Monitor Report 2016, ATT Monitor. New York: Control Arms.
Marsh, Nicholas; Aaron Karp; & Giorgio Ravalgi (2015) UNODC Study on Firearms 2015, UNODC. Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Karim, Atina; & Nicholas Marsh (2015) State positions and practices concerning reporting and the Arms Trade Treaty, ATT Monitor, 1. New York: ATT Monitor.
Dreyfus, Pablo; & Nicholas Marsh (2006) Tracking the Guns: International Diversion of Small Arms to Illicit Markets in Rio de Janeiro, Viva Rio . Rio de Janeiro : Viva Rio.
Holm, Kyrre; Anne Thurin; & Nicholas Marsh (2006) Bullets Without Borders: Improving Control and Oversight Over Norwegian Arms Production, Exports and Investments, .. .
Marsh, Nicholas;Owen, Taylor;Jackson, Thomas; & Thurin, Anne (2005) Who Takes the Bullet? – The Impact of Small Arms Violence, Understanding the Issues, 3. : .
Lumpe, Lora; Maria Haug; Nicholas Marsh; & Martin Langvandslien (2002) Shining a Light on Small Arms Exports: The Record of State Transparency, NISAT/Small Arms Survey. Geneva.

Blog Posts

Ukraine Food Export Agreement: Not Yet Delivering

Posted by Nic Marsh on Wednesday, 17 August 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted in the reduction of Ukraine’s grain exports by a third. As part of its attack Russia had taken or damaged Ukrainian ports, threatened merchant ships, struck Ukraine’s rail and road infrastructure and destroyed farms. The Russian invasion was followed by rapid increases in global ... Read more »

Mass Shootings Are Mostly Committed by Men: How Might a Gender Lens Help Us Understand This?

Posted by Kelly Fisher, Nic Marsh & Erik Melander on Saturday, 4 June 2022

Two recent mass shootings in the U.S. have once again drawn attention to its high rate of gun violence and mass shootings. The sheer number of guns in the U.S. and the ease by which they can be purchased are undoubtedly parts of the explanation. What those factors don’t explain ... Read more »

Security Logics of Africa’s Divided Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Posted by Hassan Aden & Nic Marsh on Monday, 28 March 2022

Half of the nation states who chose not to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly’s extraordinary session on March 2nd were member states of the African Union (AU). In the event, 25 of the AU’s 55 member states either abstained, did not vote, or voted ... Read more »

Arms and Influence in Ukraine

Posted by Nic Marsh on Thursday, 17 March 2022

The supply of weapons and other military equipment has been one of two main responses by Western States to the invasion of Ukraine (the other being economic sanctions). Compared to direct deployment of military forces, arms supplies are often seen as relatively uncomplicated and low cost means to assist a ... Read more »

Peer Review and Societal Impact of COVID-19 Research

Posted by Nic Marsh on Sunday, 27 September 2020

In this final instalment of our blog series marking this year’s Peer Review Week, Senior Research Nicholas Marsh looks at how Reddit users are accessing research on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and finds that non-peer-reviewed publications pose a real challenge to peer-reviewed publications as a way to disseminate research to ... Read more »

The Pitfalls of Societal Impact in a Politicized Environment: An Example from the Corona Era

Posted by Nic Marsh on Monday, 13 July 2020

The British magazine The Spectator referred to research published in Norway to back up the magazine’s claim that societal lockdowns are not an effective means to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections. This unlikely occurrence highlights some of the difficulties in ensuring that research has a societal impact. Funders and ... Read more »

Compounding Fragmentation: New PRIO Policy Paper on Security Force Assistance to the Sahel and Horn of Africa

Posted by Nic Marsh, Øystein Rolandsen, Julian Karssen & Marie Sandnes on Thursday, 18 June 2020

Since 2010 there has been an increase in both the intensity of conflict in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, and of the level of Western military intervention in the regions. Islamist insurgency has received most external attention, but the region has also been affected by inter-communal violence, organised crime, ... Read more »

How Far Should We Go to Stop Migration to Europe?

Posted by Øystein Rolandsen, Marie Sandnes & Nic Marsh on Monday, 4 December 2017

The police, the military and militia groups in Libya are keeping refugees away from Europe. Reports link this situation to funding from the EU and Italy. The money passes through intermediaries, but Europe must bear responsibility nevertheless for making the funds available. To restrict the numbers of refugees arriving from ... Read more »

How did the San Bernardino Killers Obtain the Guns used to Commit the 2 December Massacre?

Posted by Nic Marsh on Monday, 7 December 2015

The guns were bought in a shop. How did the 13 November Paris Killers get their Guns? How did the Paris Killers Acquire their Guns? Read more »

How did the 13 November Paris Killers get their Guns?

Posted by Nic Marsh on Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Full details of the arms used in the 13 November massacres will emerge in time. This post provides some information on illicit automatic weapons, such as the Kalashnikov, in France, and how they reach illicit markets. Overall, it appears that there is a pool of several thousand illicit military style ... Read more »

The Reality of Firearms Trafficking

Posted by Nic Marsh on Wednesday, 17 June 2015

The film The Lord of War and high profile trial of Victor Bout helped to seal in the public imagination the image of an illicit arms trafficker as being someone who smuggled planeloads of Kalashnikovs around the world and into war zones. Such characters do exist, but the reality of firearms trafficking ... Read more »

Surprising Trends Uncovered in New Homicide Visualization

Posted by Nic Marsh on Thursday, 21 May 2015

PRIO is a partner in a new global homicide monitor that has just been published. Hosted by the  Igarapé Institute in Brazil, the monitor presents counts and estimates of global homicide over the period 2000-2014 and is intended to provoke reflection and stimulate debate. The Monitor reports 437,000 homicides in 2012, the ... Read more »

The Effect of Proposed US Arms Supplies to Ukraine

Posted by Nic Marsh on Wednesday, 4 February 2015

A report published on Monday by the Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that calls for the US to supply Ukraine with arms has generated a lot of discussion on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by eight high ranking former US diplomats, defence ... Read more »

How did the Paris Killers Acquire their Guns?

Posted by Nic Marsh on Wednesday, 14 January 2015

At present we have very little information on the guns used last week by Saïd and Chérif Kouachi to commit a massacre at the offices of the publication Charlie Hebdo; and by Amedy Coulibaly in several shootings in Paris. They were armed with Kalashnikov pattern guns, however as nearly 200 ... Read more »

Fake Syria Video

Posted by Nic Marsh on Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Last week a video surfaced on YouTube which showed children being fired upon in a battleground in Syria. It shows a boy rescuing a girl from what looks like certain death. Dubbed the ‘hero boy’ video it was rapidly shared on social media and by the end of the week ... Read more »

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Issues for the International Community

Posted by Nic Marsh & Kristin B. Sandvik on Monday, 12 May 2014

On May 13-16 a United Nations (UN) expert meeting will discuss ‘questions relating to emerging technologies’ in lethal autonomous weapon systems. Such systems are distinguished by being mobile and selecting targets autonomously without direct human supervision. This type of expert meeting represents the lowest rung of the UN ladder. The Chair of ... Read more »

Issues for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

Posted by Nic Marsh on Friday, 4 April 2014

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots was launched in April 2013 with the objective of achieving a ban on the development, production and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. In May 2014, the issue will be discussed by a UN expert meeting under the auspices of the Convention on Conventional Weapons ... Read more »

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