Though the burden of disrupting the drug-SALW nexus is on official agencies—notably the police, legislature, and border control—civil society organizations (CSOs) can play a useful role:
• Serve as a community-level ‘tripwire’, alerting community leaders and possibly lawenforcement authorities that drugs and SALW are entering a community;
• Provide publicity campaigns on the deleterious effects of the drugs/SALW combination;
• Learn from the experience of other communities in West Africa and elsewhere, and disseminate those findings as examples.
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