Global instruments for conventional arms control.
Conventional arms control by states usually takes one of two broad approaches: limiting and/or prohibiting weapons —including, where appropriate, the means and methods of delivering those weapons—considered to be inhumane or indiscriminate; or regulating and managing weapons production and trade , with a view to preventing their destabilizing accumulation, diversion and/or misuse. We review the developments and negotiations that took place in 2018 in four of the main global instruments for regulating the production, trade and use of conventional weapons. The 2013 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) , another major instrument the 1981 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions onthe Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (the CCW Convention ), with a focus on efforts to regulate lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). As was the case in 2017, the discussions on LAWS took place in the format of a Group of Governmental ...