small arms and light weapons (SALW) | Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) | Latin America | harm to civilians
Daniel Mack is an independent consultant working on issues of armed violence reduction and international arms control. He worked for nine years at the NGO Instituto Sou da Paz in São Paulo, Brazil, spearheading its arms control efforts both at the national level and at global fora. Moreover, he was co-chair of the Control Arms coalition that pushed for the UN Arms Trade Treaty and member of the International Advisory Council of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), among other leadership roles. Daniel is currently a member of the Editorial Team of the publication ATT Monitor. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree in International Relations (MSFS) from Georgetown University (USA). Daniel speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Recent publications*:
Daniel Mack is an independent consultant working on issues of armed violence reduction and international arms control. He worked for nine years at the NGO Instituto Sou da Paz in São Paulo, Brazil, spearheading its arms control efforts both at the national level and at global fora. Moreover, he was co-chair of the Control Arms coalition that pushed for the UN Arms Trade Treaty and member of the International Advisory Council of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), among other leadership roles. Daniel is currently a member of the Editorial Team of the publication ATT Monitor. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree in International Relations (MSFS) from Georgetown University (USA). Daniel speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Recent publications*:
- "VÅPENEKSPORT OG KRIGEN I JEMEN: Utilstrekkelige risikovurderinger og svakheter i norsk regelverk," Save the Children Norway and Changemaker, February 26, 2020
- "Ammunition Control Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean," UNLIREC, June 2018.
- "ATT Monitor 2017, chapter 1.1: Transparency in the ATT," ATT Monitor 2017, 2017.
- “Small Arms, Big Violations”, SUR International Journal on Human Rights, December 2015, Issue 22.
- “Armed and Insecure: An overview of arms transfers and armed violence in the Horn of Africa (2010-2015)” (with Frank Slijper), PAX, September 2016.
- “War in peace: the big toll of small arms”, OpenSecurity, October 2014.
- “What Next? Thoughts for Global Civil Society Working on Arms Control and Armed Violence Reduction”, Instituto Sou da Paz, April 2014.
- “O Brasil e as lágrimas de Obama”, Folha de São Paulo, January 2016.
- "O papel do Brasil no Tratado sobre o Comércio de Armas", Repórter Brasil, March 2013.
- “Las herramientas de las violaciones de los derechos humanos”, El País, July 2014.