Australian Solution Tackles Gun Violence in Papua New Guinea
To counter outbreaks of deadly violence in PNG, the Australian government supports a practical intervention developed by the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction at Macquarie University. In multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects, deployment of the ArmsTracker weapon and ammunition management system is now well underway. This is how it was developed. ArmsTracker 1996-2026: Thirty Years of Research […]
Leap Forward for Weapon and Ammunition Management in Liberia
In a recent handover ceremony, the Liberia National Commission on Arms (LiNCA) took delivery of an advanced record-keeping and anti-trafficking system to stem the illicit diversion of small arms. The ArmsTracker Weapon and Ammunition Management (WAM) system, funded by the Arms Trade Treaty Voluntary Trust Fund (ATT-VTF), was provided to the Republic of Liberia through […]
30-Plus Security Agencies Now Have ArmsTracker
Alistair Gee and Philip Alpers with ArmsTracker The leading solution for weapon and ammunition management (WAM) in low-capacity settings, ArmsTracker is installed or under evaluation with more than 30 military, law enforcement and other state agencies responsible for small arms, light weapons, ammunition and explosives. ArmsTracker can be installed and maintained at no cost in […]
ArmsTracker Features in Aus Media
As their flight made slow circles over foggy Canberra one winter morning in 2012, Alistair Gee and Philip Alpers came up with an idea. The 30-something lawyer and the 60-something academic were both deeply concerned about gun violence and were heading to the nation’s capital for talks on an international arms trade treaty. The fog […]
ArmsTracker Records Cambodia Weapon Destruction
ArmsTracker is being used by the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation in its US-funded project to record the destruction of surplus weapons for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). To date more than 10,000 weapons have been destroyed, with a target of 30,000. ArmsTracker is now available with all text and help tips displayed in Khmer, switchable to English, French […]
ArmsTracker Tackles Global Priority
Despite decades of lip service and inadequate solutions, the mundane chore of arms and ammunition ‘record-keeping’ has long remained a pressing need in communities most at risk of armed violence. Now a comprehensive solution, rolled out initially in the Pacific and West Africa, offers to break the logjam.
Preventing Diversion: ArmsTracker weapon and ammunition management
State agencies with the fewest resources are now offered a low-cost, or a no-cost solution to enforce national laws and to observe regional and international commitments, in their own language.
Somalia Builds a Weapon and Ammunition Management Register
As part of a national project led by Conflict Armament Research, CAVR visited Mogadishu to help install a customised version of ArmsTracker.
ArmsTracker Up and Running in Samoa
Samoa now registers all state-owned and private firearms using ArmsTracker ‘no net cost’ software designed and customised by CAVR.
Weapon and Ammunition Management for the Pacific
CAVR offers a version of its ArmsTracker national weapon and ammunition control system tailor-made to the needs of each state agency.
