| ABM |
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty |
| AFCONE |
African Commission on Nuclear Energy (implementing mechanism of the Pelindaba Treaty) |
| APEC |
ASEAN Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APLs |
anti-personnel landmines |
| APMs |
anti-personnel mines |
| ARF |
ASEAN Regional Forum |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| ASEM |
Asia Europe Meeting |
| ASTOP |
Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation |
| ATT |
Arms Trade Treaty |
| AU |
African Union |
| BCPR |
Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP) |
| BICC |
Bonn International Centre for Convention |
| BMD |
ballistic missile defence |
| BMS |
bienniel meeting of States parties to coniser the implementation of the Programme of Action on SALW |
| BOMVIC |
Baghdad Ongoing Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Centre |
| BWC |
Biological Weapons Convention |
| C5 |
the five Central Asian States |
| CANWFZ |
Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone |
| CARICOM |
Caribbean Community |
| CASA |
Coordinating Action on Small Arms |
| CBMs |
confidence-building measures |
| CBW |
chemical and biological weapons |
| CCWs |
Certain Conventional Weapons |
| CD |
Conference on Disarmament |
| CENA |
Centre d'etudes d'Afrique noire |
| CFE |
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe |
| CHR |
Commission on Human Rights |
| CICA |
Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia |
| CICAD |
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission |
| CICTE |
Inter American Committee against Terrorism |
| CIFTA |
Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials |
| CMC |
Cooperative Monitoring Center (US Sandia National Laboratories) |
| CNCCAI |
National Commission for the Monitoring and Collection of Illicit Arms |
| COARM |
Code of Conduct on Arms Exports (European Union) |
| COPAX |
Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa |
| CPPNM |
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material |
| CSBMs |
confidence- and security- building measures |
| CSCAP |
Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific |
| CTBT |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty |
| CTBTO |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization |
| CTC |
Counter-Terrorism Committee |
| CWC |
Chemical Weapons Convention |
| DDR |
disarmament, demobilization and reintegration |
| DDA |
Department for Disarmamemt Affairs |
| DESA |
Department for Economic and Social Affairs |
| DEW |
directed energy weaponry |
| DNP |
disarmament and non-proliferation education |
| DPI |
Department for Public Information |
| DPKO |
Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
| DPRK |
Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
| DU |
depleted uranium |
| EAPC |
Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council |
| EAPCCO |
Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization |
| ECAAR |
Economists Allied for Arms Reduction |
| ECCAS |
Economic Community of Central African States |
| ECLAC |
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| ECOMOG |
Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Observer Group |
| ECOWAS |
Economic Community of West African States |
| ECPS |
Executive Committee on Peace and Security |
| ECS |
Experts Communicating System |
| EEA |
European Economic Area |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EISAS |
Information and Strategic Analysis Secretariat of the Executive Committee on Peace and Security |
| ERW |
Explosive Remnants of War |
| ESDP |
European Security and Defence Policy |
| EU |
European Union |
| FMCT |
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty |
| FMT |
Fissile Material Treaty |
| FOC |
Friends of the Chair |
| FSC |
Forum for Security Cooperation (OSCE) |
| GCI |
Global Communications Infrastructure |
| GCS |
Global Control System |
| GICHD |
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining |
| GRIP |
Groupe de Recherche et d'Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité (Belgium) |
| GSI |
Global Security Institute |
| HCOC |
Hague Code of Conduct (see ICOC) |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IANSA |
International Action Network on Small Arms |
| ICBL |
International Campaign to Ban Landmines |
| ICBM |
intercontinental ballistic missile |
| ICGEB |
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology |
| ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
| ICOC |
International code of conduct against ballistic missile proliferation (also HCOC) |
| ICRC |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IDC |
International Data Centre |
| IFRCRCS |
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
| IFRI |
Institut francais des relations internacionales |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| IMAS |
International Mine Action Standards |
| IMS |
International Monitoring System |
| IMSMA |
Information Management System for Mine Action System |
| INSServ |
International Nuclear Security Advisory Service |
| INPRO |
International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles |
| IOM |
International Organization for Migration |
| ISIS |
Institute of Security and International Studies |
| ISU |
Implementation Support Unit (of the GICHD) |
| JDEC |
Joint Data Exchange Center |
| KFOR |
International Security Force in Kosovo |
| LAS |
League of Arab States |
| MANPADS |
Man Portable Air Defence Systems |
| MDI |
Monitoring, Database and Information Branch of DDA |
| MESA |
Middle East and South Asian States |
| MIRV |
multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle |
| MTCR |
Missile Technology Control Regime |
| MONUC |
Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Moscow Treaty |
see SORT |
| MOTAPM |
mines other than anti-personnel mines |
| MOU |
memorandum of understanding |
| MTCR |
Missile Technology Control Regime |
| NAC |
New Agenda Coalition |
| NAM |
Non-Aligned Movement |
| NAMSA |
NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NGOs |
non-governmental organizations |
| NMD |
national missile defence |
| NPT |
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NSG |
Nuclear Suppliers Group |
| NWFZ |
Nuclear-weapon-free zone |
| NNWS |
non-nuclear-weapon State |
| NWS |
nuclear-weapon State |
| OAS |
Organization of American States |
| OAU |
Organization of African Unity |
| OEWG |
Open-Ended Working Group on tracing illicit small arms and light weapons |
| OLA |
Office of Legal Affairs |
| OPANAL |
Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| OPCW |
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| OSCC |
Open Sky Consultative Commission |
| OSCE |
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OSI |
on-site inspection |
| OSRSG/CAC |
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict |
| PAROS |
prevention of an arms race in outer space |
| PCASED |
Programme for Coordination and Assistance for Security and Development in Africa |
| PETN |
Pentaerythritoltetranitrate (one of the strongest known high explosives) |
| PfP |
Partnership for Peace |
| PIC |
Peace Implementation Council (Dayton Agreement) |
| PM&E |
participatory monitoring and evaluation techniques |
| PoA |
UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects |
| PSI |
Proliferation Security Initiative |
| PTBT |
Partial Test-Ban Treaty |
| PTS |
Provisional Technical Secretariat (CTBTO) |
| PWG |
Policy Working Group (United Nations and terrorism) |
| QDR |
Quadrennial Defense Review |
| RACVIAC |
Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre |
| RCMP |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| RGSA |
Reference Group on Small Arms |
| RMA |
Revolution in Military Affairs |
| SACSQCA |
Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa |
| SAB |
Scientific Advisory Board (OPCW) |
| SADC |
Southern African Development Community |
| SALSA |
Small Arms and Light Weapons Administration |
| SALW |
small arms and light weapons |
| SARPCCO |
Southern Africa Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization |
| SAS |
Small Arms Survey |
| SATCRA |
Small Arms Transparency and Control Regime in Africa |
| SCA |
Stockpiles of conventional ammunition |
| SCBMs |
Security and confidence-building measures |
| SCE |
Standing Committee of Experts |
| SCO |
Shanghai Cooperation Organization |
| SEANWFZ |
South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone |
| SEE |
South East Europe |
| SEECP |
South-East European Cooperation Process |
| SEEI |
South-East Europe Initiative (NATO) |
| SEESAC |
South Eastern Europe Clearing House for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons |
| SFOR |
Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| SIGA |
Integrated Weapons Management System |
| SIPRI |
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| SLBM |
submarine-launched ballistic missile |
| SORT |
Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (Moscow Treaty) |
| SPSEE |
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe |
| SSI |
Swedish Radiation Protection Authority |
| SSOD |
special session on disarmament |
| SSRC |
Social Science Research Council |
| START |
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (I, II and III) |
| SweFOR |
Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation |
| TMD |
theatre missile defence |
| UNAJ |
United Nations Association of Japan |
| UNCED |
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
| UNDC |
United Nations Disarmament Commission |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
| UNEP |
United Nations Environmental Programme |
| UNIDIR |
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research |
| UNIFEM |
United Nations Development Fund for Women |
| UN-LiREC |
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| UNISPACE |
United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
| UNMAS |
United Nations Mine Action Service |
| UNMOVIC |
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission |
| UNODC |
United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime |
| UNSCOM |
United Nations Special Commission |
| VCC |
Verification Coordinating Committee (NATO) |
| VEREX |
Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts to Identify and Examine Potential Verification Measures from a Scientific and Technical Standpoint |
| VERTIC |
Verification Research, Training and Information Centres |
| WA |
Wassenaar Arrangement |
| WAANSA |
West African Network on Small Arms |
| WCO |
World Customs Organization |
| WFSA |
World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WILPF |
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
| WMD |
weapons of mass destruction |
| WTO |
World Trade Organization |
