The Arms Fixers

Authors’ Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to BASIC, NISAT and PRIO for enabling us to publish this study, and also to the many individuals in those and other organizations who have given us support and encouragement in the course of our research and writing. Our usual employers – the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, based in London, and the International Peace Information Service, based in Antwerp – have generously allowed us leave to work on this study and related projects over the past year. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has kindly provided financial
support for the study.

Our special thanks go to Dan Smith (PRIO), Lora Lumpe (NISAT) and Martin Butcher (BASIC) for their invaluable editorial comments, as well as to Susan Høivik (PRIO) and Ingeborg Haavardsson (PRIO) for their endurance and diligence in overseeing the copy editing, printing and design of the publication; also to Jan Egeland (NISAT), Ole Petter Sunde (NISAT), Dan Plesch (BASIC), Geraldine O’Callaghan (BASIC), Sally Chin (BASIC), Preben Marcussen (NISAT) and the librarians of IPIS, for providing practical assistance and information.

Many of those who helped us with data collection and verification, like government and UN officials and those in zones of violent conflict, cannot be named here, but they will know our appreciation. Others who have provided valuable information and
insights would prefer their organization to be mentioned – these include some staff at Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, the Omega Foundation, Oxfam, Saferworld and Global Witness; also barristers at 10–11 Greys Inn Square, London, solicitors at Stephens Innocent, London; and journalists and researchers from numerous media organizations, among them the BBC, Corriere Della Sera, Carlton Television, CNN, De Morgen, Granada Television, The Guardian, Het Belang van Limburg, The Independent, Janes Information Group,
Journeyman Pictures, La Jornada, The Mail and Guardian, The New York Times, The Observer, SouthScan, Time Magazine, 20-20 Television, and The Washington Post.

Other individuals whom we can publicly thank for generously sharing their research information are Brian Johnson-Thomas, Jakkie Potgieter, Massimo Alberizzi, Mark Honigsbaum, Ettienne Hennop, Roger Huisman, Thomas Scheuer, Liz Clegg, Peter Chalk, Khareen Pech, Paul Lashmar, Ernst-Jan Hogendoorn, James Rupert, Mark Stucke, Peter Steyer, Francois Misser, Walter De Bock, and Daniel Santoro. We also wish to express our gratitude to Kathi Austin, Erik Kennes, Jonathan Bloch, Stefaans Brummer, Sergio Germani, George Berghezan, Paul Eavis, John Liebenberg, Abdul-Fatau Musah, Alex Vines, Alberto Estevez, Peter Lock, Bernardo Mariani, Katherine Joseph and Oliver Sprague.

Naturally, none of the above persons or organizations is responsible for the text of this study.

Brian Wood and Johan Peleman

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Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction / Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 / Chapter 11

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