Read the full issue brief: Distributed Ledger Technology for Arms Control and Management.
The global arms trade is a vast, dynamic, and complex enterprise, with numerous actors in multiple countries involved in facilitating the transfer of conventional weapons around the world. But its expanding scale, scope, and complexity are straining national regulatory and control ecosystems, presenting serious risks for management, transparency, and countering diversion. This event explores the potential applicability of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for customs regulation and other control and commercial ecosystems and its prospective value in assisting governments, industry, and other stakeholders in securing, streamlining, and increasing transparency of international arms transfer.
Featured Speakers
Elias Yousif, Research Analyst, Conventional Defense, Stimson Center
Pier Angelli De Luca, Program Manager/Specialist, Program of Assistance for Control of Arms and Munition, Department of Public Security, Organization of American States
Diederik Cops, Senior Researcher, Arms Trade and Arms Production Programme, Flemish Peace Institute
Cindy Vestergaard, Vice President, Special Projects and External Relations, RKVST & Nonresident Fellow, Stimson Center
Moderator
Rachel Stohl, Vice President, Stimson Center and Director of the Conventional Defense Program