This summary features highlights of ISS programme and staff activities during the week.

The Arms Management Programme will attend the Kenya National Focal Point roundtable on the implementation of Kenya’s National Action Plan on Small Arms and Light Weapons and will facilitate the launch of the weapons identification database as well as establish a process for the publication of the weapons identification handbook.

The Africa Security Analysis Programme briefed the Belgian Embassy on the DRC and Burundi and will this week attend an EISA conference on the DRC.

The Defence Sector Programme is busy researching and writing a paper on "Private Security Sector in Africa" and continues with preparations for the SA Army Vision 2020 conference. The programme is also preparing a presentation on 'Air Mobility in Support of the Common African Defence and Security Policy' for the Air Force’s Air Power Symposium on 21 September.

The Crime and Justice Programme will be hosting a delegation from the Chinese Police Association and will also attend a meeting of the Non-proliferation Council. The programme is working on an SA Crime Quarterly article on ‘the impact of the SAPS restructuring on the ACCU’s and will attend a workshop on ‘crime and safety’ which is a follow on from a workshop on ‘World Cup Cities World Class Safety’.

The Southern African Human Security Programme last week hosted a successful seminar on South Africa in SADC and also prepared a briefing for the Japanese Embassy on the SADC Summit.

The Training for Peace Programme attended the 5th APSTA AGM in Accra on 28 August, under the chairmanship of the Honorary Patron, HE General AA Abubakar. The Presidency moved by acclamation to the National War College Nigeria, while the Institute was given a further tenure as Secretariat until 2007. They also attended a successful AU Workshop on the Civilian Dimension of the ASF at the KAIPTC in Ghana.

The Cape Town Office attended a roundtable meeting of six of the 2006 ISS monograph authors on 1 September. The monograph will review developments around organised crime and money laundering in South Africa, Namibia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique. The latest edition of the Terrorism Bulletin was issued this week. Projects were proposed following up on a report on a ‘post-mortem’ on the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme Corruption and bribery trials and an article for the UK based Bretton Woods project on the World Banks anti-corruption strategy was finalised. The programme will participate in an OSF-SA organised Roundtable Discussion on Pro Bono Legal Assistance for the Media in Sandton on Friday.

The Addis Ababa Office received a team from the US Justice Department, based in Kenya to discuss the counter terrorism training course that ICPAT would be developing with EAPCCO. The programme is following up on a document on best practices on border control and held meetings with representatives of the Security Research Information Centre in Kenya, the Assistant Clerk of the National Assembly, a representative of the International Committee of Jurists, professors who have lectured at the Defence Staff College, personnel of the Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance and the East African newspaper.

The Nairobi Office met with RECSA staff with a view to liaise on October Researchers’ Workshop and also met with Sabine Machenheimer of Jane’s Information Group, the Africa Editor on the Sentinel Country Risk Portfolio as well as officials from the Office of the President.