Disarmament and International Security Committee:
Addressing Post-Conflict Weapon Leakage and Illicit Arms Tracking in the Balkans and Eastern Europe
About the Agenda:
The First Committee of the United Nations, DISEC, deals with disarmament, global challenges and threats to peace that affect the international community and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regime. Following the comprehensive list of conflicts known as the Yugoslav wars (including the ten day war and the Bosnian war), and external hostilities such as the Albanian civil war, a variety of SALW (small arms and light weapons) were left over, buried, hidden, and administered inefficiently. Factors such as the corrupted and impoverished government caused a crisis in Albania in 1977, where mobs and illegal organisations unethically gained access to approximately three million rifles, weapons, guns, and grenades. Additionally, post the Kosovo war, soldiers disobeyed orders to return their ammunition, further contributing to the widespread, uneven distribution. Therefore, the Balkans and Eastern Europe regions are flooded with challenges regarding themanagement of ancient stockpiles, unfit governments unable to fund and foster competent solutions, and an influx of criminal networks that multiply the magnitude of the substantial impacts over centuries. This committee will analyse the failures of existing frameworks, including the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms, while debating timelines for stockpile destruction and identifying a promising course of action to prevent the proliferation of weapons in the European region, while formulating a solution that serves the best interests of the majority of countries.
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