• E4J University Module Series: Firearms

• Module 4: The Illicit Market in Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Authorized and unauthorized arms transfers
  • Illegal firearms in social, cultural and political context
  • Supply, demand and criminal motivations
  • Larger scale firearms trafficking activities
  • Smaller scale trafficking activities
  • Sources of illicit firearms
  • Consequences of illicit markets: producing, prolonging and exacerbating conflict and aggravating levels of crime and violence
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• First published in June 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as video material that might help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers could employ these resources, or find alternatives, to suit their particular classes and teaching contexts.

PowerPoint presentation

• Presentation on Module 4: The Illicit Market in Firearms (forthcoming)

 

Videos

• Re-arming a de-activated UZI   (4:13 minutes). Shows the process of re-arming de-activated lethal weapons.
• Where do illegal guns in the Philippines come from?   (4:35 minutes). The video elaborates the methods of smuggling firearms in the Philippines and attempts to answer the questions why illegal flows persist and what can be done to stop them. It was produced by International Alert Philippines.
• Ukraine conflict boosts illegal weapons market   (2:28 minutes). The video explains how an on-going conflict can be a source of illegal firearms, which can be smuggled out of the region and sold to criminal gangs.

 

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