Philip Alpers
Director of Programmes, Centre for Armed Violence Reduction; Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Sydney
email: philip [dot] alpers [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au
phone: 61 (404) 857075
Director of Programmes, Centre for Armed Violence Reduction; Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Sydney
email: philip [dot] alpers [at] sydney [dot] edu [dot] au
phone: 61 (404) 857075
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) | Asia (including Indo Pacific)
Philip Alpers is director of programmes and co-founder of the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, designer of ArmsTracker, and a faculty member at the University of Sydney School of Public Health. He is also founding director of GunPolicy.org.
A former senior fellow at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Alpers is a widely published policy analyst in the effects of armed violence and firearm regulation on public health and human rights. Accredited to the United Nations small arms Programme of Action since 2001, he participates in UN firearm-related processes, and designs and installs arms and ammunition control systems for state agencies across Africa and the Pacific.
Philip Alpers is director of programmes and co-founder of the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, designer of ArmsTracker, and a faculty member at the University of Sydney School of Public Health. He is also founding director of GunPolicy.org.
A former senior fellow at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Alpers is a widely published policy analyst in the effects of armed violence and firearm regulation on public health and human rights. Accredited to the United Nations small arms Programme of Action since 2001, he participates in UN firearm-related processes, and designs and installs arms and ammunition control systems for state agencies across Africa and the Pacific.
Recent Publications:
- “Massive Firearm Buybacks in Australia and Four Other Countries: International Experience and Research," Expert report commissioned by the Mass Casualty Commission of the Government of Canada, September 6, 2022.
- "Opinion: This is what happened when 3 nations that experienced mass shootings did something about it," CNN, June 2, 2022.
- "A Pressing Need: Decades of Agreement, Few Results on Arms Record-Keeping," The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction: Vol. 25 : Issue 2, Article 11, 2021.
- "Small Firearms in the Pacific: Regionalism and Non-Trafficking. Gun Trafficking and Violence: From The Global Network to The Local Security Challenge." Eds. D. P. Esparza, C. A. P. Ricart and E. W. Vargas. New York, Palgrave Macmillan: 273-294, 2021.*
- "From Policy Inertia to World Leader: Australia's ‘Perfect Storm’ of Gun Control. In: Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand"; Eds. Joannah Luetjens, Michael Mintrom and Paul ‘t Hart. Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 207-233. April 30, 2019.*
- "Australia's Gun Laws Can't Work in America – For Now," Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 30, 2018.
- "Fatal Firearm Incidents Before and After Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement Banning Semiautomatic Rifles," Annals of Internal Medicine, March 13, 2018.
- "Australian Gun Laws," The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice, November 5, 2017.
- "Implementing the Arms Trade Treaty and the UNPoA: A Guide to Coordinating an Effective Arms Control System," Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, October 20, 2017.*
- "Reinvigorating the Narrative: The Broader Benefits of the Arms Trade Treaty," Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, September 13, 2017.*
- "Association Between Gun Law Reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia, 1979-2013," Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), July 19, 2016.