Pablo Dreyfus (1969/70 – 1 June 2009) was an

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arms control expert who worked in

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, particularly

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, to help end the

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prevalent in

. His work as a consultant and opinion as an expert in his field was in demand worldwide years before the time of his death, in the crash of

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. Dreyfus encouraged better accounting of weapons to prevent them falling into the hands of

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.Key figures in global battle against illegal arms trade lost in Air France crash

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, 6 Jun 2009 He pushed for legislation requiring stricter controls on the labelling of ammunition. He raised the alarm about practices that facilitated

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and

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, which led to legislation in Brazil. He supported the development of anti-gunrunning security in Mozambique, Angola, El Salvador and other countries. Following the theft of grenades from an Argentine military garrison in 2006, Dreyfus remarked "If a supermarket can keep control of the amount of peas it has in stock, surely a military organization could and should be able to do the same with equal if not greater efficiency with its weapons. The key words are logistics, control, security." Born in

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, Dreyfus got his

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in International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies) where his emphasis was Transnational Crime patterns.Pablo Gabriel Dreyfus
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, senior researcher and professor of the

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(FLACSO) and coordinator of the

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(FES) Brazilian think tank of regional security. Dreyfus became better known in the English-speaking world for his work for

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.Guns in Brazil
Disarming: A law that might save many lives Nov 20th 2003

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Please Don't Shoot
Marcela Sanchez May 5, 2005,

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His wife, sociologist and researcher Ana Carolina Rodrigues, was with him at the time of the accident. Ana herself was finishing her PhD in one of the top research institutes of Rio de Janeiro, the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) at

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. She was working with children involved in organized armed violence, and had previously worked on social movements and minorities. Pablo was also the son of renowned and award-winning

ad man, Gabriel Dreyfus and Ana Piazzetta. El Argentino

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Conventional Ammunition in Surplus
A Reference Guide. Edited by James Bevan, January 2008. Co-published with BICC, FAS, GRIP, and SEESAC with support from the German Federal Foreign Office {{DEFAULTSORT:Dreyfus, Pablo 2009 deaths Argentine academics Arms control people Air France Flight 447 victims Year of birth uncertain Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni