Small Arms Survey 50d ago

Small Arms Survey C-IED Online Strategic Briefing Series This briefing, held on 17 February 2026, and chaired by the Permanent Representation of France to the Disarmament Convention, aimed to establish a shared understanding of how both new and persistent drivers shape IED threats, providing a foundation for subsequent regional, people-centred, and nexus-focused discussions in the series. It focused on: - key trends shaping the contemporary IED threat landscape; - the growing use of improvised explosive aerial drones, and whether these developments represent a fundamentally new challenge or an evolution of existing patterns; - the underlying drivers and enabling ecosystems that facilitate IED use; and - the role of threat assessment methodologies in informing adaptive and anticipatory responses.