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Exchanging Guns for Tools
The TAE Approach to Practical
Disarmament—An Assessment of the TAE Project in Mozambique

Sami Faltas and Wolf-Christian Paes

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

History

Assessing the Scope of the Problem

Aims and Objectives of the TAE Project

Output and Impact

  • Weapons Collection and destruction
  • Provision of Tools and Other Incentives
  • Figure: Collection Results of TAE Project from
  • 20 October 1995 until 14 October 2003
  • Civic Education
  • Guns into Art

Resources Available to the Project

Mode of Operation

  • Information Retrieval
  • Provision of Incentives
  • Storage and Destruction

Government and Civil Society

Costs and Benefits

Lessons Learned and Replication

  • Motivation of Gun-Holders
  • Program Goals
  • Government Relations
  • Provision of Incentives

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