Small Arms Survey 50d ago

Small Arms Survey C-IED Online Strategic Briefing Series Building on the series' first session’s examination of emerging trends and drivers shaping the contemporary IED threat landscape, this briefing turned to regional perspectives. Although IED use is a global phenomenon, its patterns, enabling factors, and consequences are profoundly influenced by distinct political, security, and socio-economic contexts at the regional level. In response, governments and regional organisations have developed a variety of national, sub-regional, and continental initiatives aimed at preventing and countering IED use. When effectively designed and implemented, such approaches can strengthen coordination, encourage peer learning, and support more coherent responses to transnational threats. At the same time, enduring structural, operational, and resource-related challenges continue to shape their implementation and long-term sustainability. This session, chaired by the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN, looked at region-specific lessons that could inform multilateral frameworks. It focused on: - the added value of regional, yet nuanced and context-specific approaches to countering IED; - examples of national, regional and continental approaches; and - good practices and persistent challenges underlying regional cooperation mechanisms.