Europe
Europe and Saferworld
We work on arms control, security and development issues in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Russia and South Eastern Europe.
Our Europe team is based in London with a member of staff in Pristina, Kosovo. We work closely with partner organisations across the region.
What are the challenges in Europe?
There are significant security challenges in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Russia and South Eastern Europe. These include:
- a number of unresolved conflicts
- weak governance
- a failure to address small arms proliferation
- weak arms transfer controls
- poor policing
What we do in Europe
We focus on improving the safety and security of communities by:
- researching safety and security issues
- promoting new approaches to meet the security needs of communities
- working with communities and law enforcers to help them develop patnerships to tackle insecurity
- working with governments, parliaments and civil society to strengthen international and national arms transfer controls
- developing and supporting the implementation of small arms controls
- promoting conflict-sensitive development so that development policy and planning takes into account conflict risks and causes.
- supporting and training civil society to work with their governments on security, arms and conflict issues
Hear a UK MP discuss development and security in Kosovo
Read a case study about community safety in Kosovo
Read our latest report which examines the issues that communities, NGOs and justice sector workers in Kosovo identify as potential drivers of conflict in Kosovo. Download 'Kosovo at the crossroads'
Reports and briefings
Moldova and international small arms transfers: Implementing UN Programme of Action commitments, July 2008
Good Conduct? Ten years of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, June 2008
Policing in Kosovo, February 2008
Practical considerations for the potential future ESDP mission to Kosovo, October 2007
Measuring up? Transfer controls in the European Neighbourhood, May 2007
Human security in Kosovo, May 2007
Beyond the reach of state monopoly controls: a comparative overview of Russian controls on arms brokering, April 2007
Small arms production in Russia, March 2007
Find out more
Read more about our work on:
Arms transfer controls in Europe
Conflict-sensitive development
Security and justice sector development
