Small Arms Control in West Africa

What Will You Learn?

• Small Arms Control in West Africa is a structured, certified learning programme that takes you from the basics of how weapons move and kill, all the way to hands-on skills in policy advocacy, community mediation, and digital campaigning.
• This is not a lecture series. It is a training programme. You will read, analyse, write, discuss, and produce real work that you can use beyond this classroom.
• By the time you complete this course, you will be able to:
• Explain how illicit arms enter and circulate in West Africa and why they are so difficult to control
• Analyse the regional and international legal frameworks designed to address the problem
• Apply mediation and conflict resolution skills at the community level
• Design and run a digital advocacy campaign on disarmament issues
• Earn an official FOSDA Digital Peacebuilders Certificate in Small Arms Control