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Teacher’s Guide

14-Module Curriculum on Firearms in all its Aspects

Ed Laurance Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey elaurance@miis.edu

Goals of the Project

• Not just education- sustainable change
• Promote evidence-based research
• Networking
• Multidisciplinary- not just the Firearms Protocol
• Disciplines: Law, criminology, political science, international relations,

peace and security studies

• Global audience
• Grad and undergrad

More Goals

• Formal and informal
• University level
• Higher vocational training
• Variety of methods beyond lectures- simulations, etc.
• Develop incentives for universities to teach these modules on

firearms

• Develop epistemic community

Teachers Guide Outline

• Global situation of increasing firearms crime and violence

The objective of this section is to highlight the critical nature of the firearms problem, one that increasingly affects most countries of the

• world. It needs to be graphic with a sense of urgency.

Growing need for increased education on illicit firearms and their impact that leads to more effective policies and programs resulting in sustainable change in the form of reduced violence and crime with firearms. This section provides the reasons why tertiary level teachers should embrace this curriculum. It provides the incentives for doing so and why students would embrace this curriculum. We know there is almost no such education in place at the tertiary level. [Or is there?]

Teachers Guide Outline II

• The curriculum should lead to sustainable change, that is, the prevention

and reduction of the negative effects of the illicit trafficking, diffusion, manufacture and criminal use of firearms.

• Each module contains enough information and variety of methods and

tools that it can be applied by the at the undergraduate and graduate levels

• f study, as well as online, more informally (e.g., for NGOs) and for short

workshops for professionals engaged in work in the area of firearms.

• The most effective approach to achieving the objectives of this curriculum
• n firearms and all its aspects is to develop modules that can be adapted

for use in the local, national or regional context closest to the concerns and interests of the students.

Academic Disciplines

• The curriculum is designed to be used in a variety of academic disciplines,

in a variety of packages- mix and match

• Law
• Criminology
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Peace and Security Studies
• Public Health
• Public Policy
• International Development
• Economics

The Modules Format

• 1. Introduction. One paragraph describing the module's key objectives.
• 2. Learning Outcomes

A maximum of five learning outcomes in bullet point form.

• 3. Module Overview

Narrative overview of key issues to be covered when teaching the module in question.

• 4. Exercises

Include case studies and other in-class or pre-class exercise

• 5. Recommended Class Structure
• 6. Core Readings

List of open access required readings to understand the module in question.

• 7. Advanced Readings

A list of readings (as many as possible should be open access), which the lecturer could assign to advanced students, organized by academic discipline if relevant.

• 8. Student Assessment
• 9. Additional Teaching Tools
• PowerPoint presentations, handouts, case studies, ideas for assignments, quizzes and
• ther resources that could help lecturers teach the module in question.

Modules 1-5

Module 1. The consequences of the illicit acquisition, manufacture, diffusion trafficking, and misuse use of firearms/SALW

Social, economic and humanitarian consequences and directly impact development, human security and safety. Exacerbate conflict, gun crime, enhance terrorism and organized crime

Module 2. Firearms and ammunition (Firearms 101) Module 3. Legal Firearms/SALW Transfers Module 4. Illicit trafficking of firearms/SALW Module 5. Legal Frameworks and Instruments to Reduce and Prevent Illicit Firearms Trafficking

Modules 6-11

• Module 6. Firearms/SALW, Terrorism and International Organized

Crime

• Module 7. Firearms, Crime and Criminal Justice Systems
• Module 8. Firearms and Development- SDG 16
• Module 9. Firearms and the public health approach to the

prevention and reduction of firearms violence.

• Module 10. Planning and conducting evidence-based research on

firearms

• Module 11. Use of firearms by police and other law enforcement
• fficials

Modules 12-15

• Module 12. Intelligence and data collection

This module reviews the various sources of data on firearms needed to effectively conduct policy and program work to prevent and reduce firearms crime and violence. It would be a prerequisite module for Modules 7, 10 and 13.

• Module 13. Design, monitoring and evaluation
• f programs that seek to lower the negative effects of the illicit

acquisition, trafficking, diffusion, manufacturing and criminal use of firearms.

• Module 14. Border Controls
• Module 15. Illicit manufacturing

Request Your Help in Building These Modules Thank You!

Ed Laurance Middlebury Institute of International Studies elaurance@miis.edu