Small Arms, Children and Education – What is the Future?
Small Arms, Children and Education – What is the Future?

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense
Published by: The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
Keywords: Small Arms; Children; Public Health; Risk Education
Summary/Abstract: In 2005 SEESAC produced a report SALW Awareness in Schools: Towards a National Curriculum. This document was a preliminary review of some of the issues relevant to education and small arms, but it was written from a SALW Awareness perspective and not from an educational perspective. The report made a number of assumptions: Since the countries of SEE are committed under the Stability Pact to ‘continued tangible progress’ in SALW Awareness, the inclusion of ‘risk education’ in schools would support this requirement; Risk education could prevent tragic accidents involving small arms and children; and Education on the negative impact of weapons could reduce future violent and criminal behaviour among young people. More in-depth study and discussion during an education consultancy conducted in 2006 as part of the EU Western Balkans SALW Control Support Plan (EU 2PP), has raised doubts about all of these assumptions and resulted in questioning the current concept of small arms risk education for children.

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