SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

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Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)

Research Associate

Name:

Mr Brian Wood

Biography

Brian Wood is research and policy manager on arms control at Amnesty International, and the consultant to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on the prevention of illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons. He has researched and provided policy analysis on the subject for over a decade, including to inter-governmental organizations, national governments and NGOs. 

His interest in this subject began in 1995 when he wrote a report entitled Rwanda: Arming the Perpetrators of the Genocide, and he later co-authored the report The Arms Fixers: Controlling the Brokers and Shipping Agents, which was sponsored by the Norwegian government. He helped assess the feasibility of a study by a General Assembly Group of Government Experts, which in March 2001 resulted in the first UN report containing an examination of illicit small arms brokering, and he has produced many reports and assisted the Small Arms Survey with research on the subject.