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Nicholas Marsh
Nicholas Marsh
Senior Researcher,
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (website)
twitter: @MarshyNic
email: nic [at] prio [dot] org
phone:
4722 54 77 72  (Norway)

small arms and light weapons (SALW) | global trade data/trends | arms trafficking | security assistance

Nicholas Marsh is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He currently works on military aid, and has previously ran the NISAT database project that tracked and visualized the international trade in small arms and light weapons. He has been the Chair of a European research network on small arms, and is a Consultant to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and to the Small Arms Survey. At PRIO he has written tens of articles, chapters and reports on the acquisition and use of weapons by non-state groups, the global licit and illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, lethal autonomous weapons, and national and international laws and regulations governing arms transfers.

​Recent Publications*:

  • "Exporting Coercive Power: Regulations and Best Practices for Security Force Assistance," PRIO Policy Brief, 3, July 1, 2020.
  • Because We Have the Maxim Gun: The Relationship Between Arms Acquisition by Non‐State Groups and Violence, doctoral dissertation, University of Oslo, 2020.
  • "Compounding Fragmentation: Security force assistance to fragile states in the Sahel and Horn of Africa," PRIO Paper, May 2020.
  • "Illicit Small Arms Prices: Introducing Two New Datasets," with Topher McDougal, Defence and Peace Economics., 2020. 
  • "Preventing Diversion: A Challenge for Arms Trade Treaty States Parties," History of Global Arms Transfer 8: 55–66, 2019
  • "The Availability Puzzle: Considering the Relationship between Arms and Violence Taking Place within States," History of Global Arms Transfer, No. 6, July 2018.  
  • "ATT Monitor 2017," Control Arms, Sept 11, 2017.

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