Armed Violence in SA SaVI Colloquium - 2 November 2013 Natalie Jaynes

Small Arms Survey Introduction Provides reliable and impartial policy-relevant analysis on small arms and armed violence. Support from governments: Finland Germany Netherlands Norway Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States Australia Belgium Canada Denmark Works closely with UN system & partners

Yearbook 2013 – Everyday dangers 526,000 people die violently each year Only 10 % can be considered direct conflict deaths

What is Armed Violence? “the use or threatened use of weapons to inflict injury, death or psychosocial harm, which undermines development” (OECD, 2009)

South Africa

Contributing/Inhibiting factors 1) Legislation 2) Policing Practices 3) Socio-economic policies 4) Programming 5) Data / monitoring

Policing Practices Use of force Firearms Leadership crisis

Inequality “the most well established environmental determinant of levels of violence is the scale of income differences between rich and poor” (Wilkinson, 2004, p. 1).

Small Arms Survey 2012 Moving Targets Thank you