Nicholas Marsh
Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (website)
twitter: @MarshyNic
email: nic [at] prio [dot] org
phone: 4722 54 77 72 (Norway)
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 disarmament, arms control and 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.
Nicholas Marsh is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He currently works on disarmament, arms control and 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:
- "Consequences of the Invasion of Ukraine for Migration from the Global South," PRIO Policy Brief 12, November 2022.
- "Dual-Use AI Technology in China, the US and the EU: Strategic Implications for the Balance of Power," PRIO, September, 2022.
- "Security Logics of Africa’s Divided Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine," PRIO, March 28, 2022.*
- "Arms and Influence in Ukraine," PRIO, March 17, 2022.
- "Negotiating Disarmament: Lessons Learnt from Colombia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sri Lanka," PRIO, 2021.*
- "Human Rights Violations and the Security Forces in Mali and Niger," PRIO Policy Brief, PRIO, December 2021.
- "Arms Trafficking," in Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, December 22, 2021.*
- "ATT Monitor Report 2021," Control Arms, August 2021.*
- "ATT Monitor 2020," Control Arms, August 19, 2020 with data and drafts contributed by Shannon Dick, Roy Isbister, Nicolas Marsh, Rachel Stohl and others.
- "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.
*indicates additional authors