Publications
Factsheet: OSCE-led Mobile Training Team Project
Publishing date: 13 January 2025
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Countering terrorism
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This factsheet provides an overview of the activities of the OSCE-led Mobile Training Team.
Handbook: Guidelines, Training Manual, and Training Program Curriculum for K9 Units in Law Enforcement Agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 16 December 2024
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Border management, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This document was developed with the aim of providing guidance on the use and care of police dogs/dogs used within law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this document is to provide all dog handlers/instructors/supervisors and other stakeholders with documented and structured guidelines on the use and maintenance of dogs, for law enforcement officials, as well as a description of their responsibilities.
Training сatalogue
Publishing date: 18 November 2024
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Countering terrorism
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE introduces a modular training structure addressing the following topic areas: identity management and travel security, behavioural analysis and interviewing techniques, crisis management, identifying and addressing trafficking in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) as well as Conventional Ammunition (CA), and combating Trafficking in Human Beings (THB), allowing for tailored training with modules aligned with a country’s specific training needs. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, modules can be selected based on the country’s risk profile, existing capabilities and areas requiring improvement. This approach optimizes resource allocation, prevents overlapping of efforts and ensures that officers receive training that directly enhances their capabilities in addressing specific challenges. The modular training strategy also enables officers to become trainers, fostering sustainable expertise within national services, as modules, or their elements, can be embedded into existing national education curricula thus ensuring local ownership and long-term impact.
Best Practice Guide on Procedures for Management of Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition
Publishing date: 26 January 2024
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Resources
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This guide provides recommended best practices that will facilitate and enhance proper management of national stockpiles of conventional ammunition, explosive material and detonating devices. It contains information useful for those individuals currently working in ammunition storage locations and those managers involved in the chain of command over these facilities that are working to establish national policy and procedures. These practices will help participating States (pS) both use their resources more efficiently and to diminish the risk of dangerous situations involving theft, loss, or accident.
Arms Control
Publishing date: 8 September 2023
Collections: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Our projects in brief
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
In line with its mandate and relevant OSCE commitments, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) works closely with institutional partners in developing a better-governed security and defense sector capable of more effectively responding to contemporary and emerging threats and challenges to national and human security. Such Mission support includes assistance in decreasing the risk of accidental explosion, theft and proliferation of weapons, ammunition, and explosives in BiH. It also includes support to ensuring BiH compliance with and timely reporting on OSCE arms control commitments.
OSCE Best Practice Guide on Ammunition Marking, Registration and Record-Keeping
Publishing date: 25 February 2022
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Best Practice Guide applies exclusively to state-owned stockpiles of conventional ammunition for military, paramilitary, security and police forces of a participating state in accordance with section II and III of the OSCE Document on Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition (FSC.DOC/1/03, dated 19 November 2003). All other ammunition, such as ammunition in private possession or ammunition used for non-conventional weapons like NBC weapons or other CBRN devices, is excluded. It contains information especially useful for those who are working on establishing national policy and procedures. Consequently the information and recommendations provided may be used as a basis for developing policy guidance, general operational guidelines and procedures on all aspects of ammunition marking, registration and record-keeping.
Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for Stockpile Management and Security of Small Arms and Light Weapons
Publishing date: 3 February 2022
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The aim of this best practice guide (BPG) is to provide guidance for the effective management and security of national Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) stockpiles. This guide is intended to help establish high common standards and serve as the basis for the development, application and facilitation of further national standards in the field of improving national stockpile management and security.
Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for Stockpile Management, Security and Destruction of Man-portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS)
Publishing date: 9 December 2021
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Resources
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This best practice guide was originally drafted and developed as Annex C – Man-portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) to the Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for Stockpile Management, Security and Destruction by the governments of the United States of America, Germany, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russian Federation, Sweden and Turkey. This revision establishes a stand-alone, best practice guideline on National Procedures for Stockpile Management, Security and Destruction of Man-portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), drafted by the government of the United States of America with review and recommendations submitted from Germany, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, Switzerland and OSCE Field Offices.
Best Practice Guide on National Procedures for the Destruction of Small Arms and Light Weapons
Publishing date: 29 October 2021
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Guidebook on Main Rights of Military Personnel
Publishing date: 20 February 2021
Content type: Guide / manual / handbook
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Human rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Guidebook was developed in 2020 within the project " Strengthening Democratic Control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces " in co-operation with the Department of Social and Humanitarian Support of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and with the support of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna