An interactive  media session on India and Arms Trade Treaty was organized  today  to share different findings of the involved individuals and institutions to the larger domain. The session focused on small arms  and light weapons control ,to address the arms trade and reduce gun violence in India.The session was participated by  small and committedindividuals .

Ms.Binalakshmi Nepram,Secretary General, CAFI welcomed  the participants and introduced  Arms Trade Treaty and its potential to mitigate the grave danger of small arms and light weapons crisis and violence unfolded inthe society. She said "There are more regulation in music and filmindustry then  arms in the  world". Lt Gen Dr. B.S Malik, spokeon the need for civil society to continue taking a lead on arms control issues and drew attention to the increasing trend of arms import by countries in SouthAsia.

Air Cmde. Prashant  Dikshit, Former Deputy Director, IPCS who pioneered the study on small arms and its implication to the  overall security of diverse regions of India  gave the keynote speech on 'IncreasingWeaponisation of India'. He  stressed on the  danger of the production of small arms in different poor regions in India and  diffusion networks  which facilitate the spread of weapons within the society and inparticular vulnerable  community. He  noted the relation of Guns,election process  and the intra- migration happening in India.

 The session aimed to catalyze media interest  byproviding  tools and opportunities  to catalyze media  interest in covering such  issues and encourage wider reporting, exploring theinternational developments happening in the shape of Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),which is  already supported by   hundreds of governments and millions of people across the globe. Mr.Bharat Dogra, an independent journalist  speaking on the 'Reporting in the media on Armed Gun violence and increasing militarization of our societies"  stressed the need to  broaden  and build linkages while  reporting and writingabout the arms menace with  other   modern problems and challenges as domestic  and communal violence. This was followed by intervention of Ashima Kaul Consultant-WISCOMP  about the ground reality of Kashmir today,with visuals and cases of  landmines problem there.