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Daniel Mack

Daniel Mack

Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Latin America
Humanitarian Law/Human Rights
Harm to Civilians
Senior Independent Consultant
Languages:
Spanish
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mack.sdp@gmail.com

Daniel Mack is a senior independent consultant with over 15 years of experience on issues of armed violence reduction and international arms control. Daniel is Member of the Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV), and is also a Senior Advisor with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the NYU Center on International Cooperation, where for over two years he spearheaded the Pathfinders’ Halving Global Violence program, establishing and convening the HGV Task Force and providing strategic direction and leadership to the Peace in Our Cities and GENSAC networks. Prior to Pathfinders, Daniel worked for five years as an independent consultant, and provided research, policy or strategic advice for several United Nations agencies (UNIDIR, UNLIREC, UNODA, UNODC) and international NGOs, including Save the Children Norway, Small Arms Survey, Control Arms, Conectas Direitos Humanos (Brazil), PAX (Netherlands), and Asociación para Políticas Públicas (Argentina).

Earlier, Daniel worked for nine years at the NGO Instituto Sou da Paz in São Paulo, Brazil, spearheading its arms control efforts both at the national level and at global fora. Moreover, he was co-chair of the Control Arms coalition that pushed for the UN Arms Trade Treaty and member of the International Advisory Council of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), among other leadership roles. Daniel was a founding member of the Editorial Team of the publication ATT Monitor. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree in International Relations (MSFS) from Georgetown University (USA). Daniel speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.

Featured Publications

Firearms transfers and Guatemala’s accountability deficit: Why strategic litigation could be “shooting a blank

Global Rights Compliance | July 3, 2025.
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ATT Monitor 2020

Control Arms | August 19, 2020.
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VÅPENEKSPORT OG KRIGEN I JEMEN: Utilstrekkelige risikovurderinger og svakheter i norsk regelverk

Save the Children Norway and Changemaker | February 26, 2020.
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Publications

  • Firearms transfers and Guatemala’s accountability deficit: Why strategic litigation could be “shooting a blank
    Global Rights Compliance | July 3, 2025.
  • ATT Monitor 2020
    Control Arms | August 19, 2020.
  • VÅPENEKSPORT OG KRIGEN I JEMEN: Utilstrekkelige risikovurderinger og svakheter i norsk regelverk
    Save the Children Norway and Changemaker | February 26, 2020.
  • Taming the Devil within: How to use the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Diversion in Latin America
    Control Arms | 2019
  • Ammunition Control Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean
    UNLIREC | 2018
  • ATT Monitor 2017, chapter 1.1: Transparency in the ATT
    ATT Monitor 2017 | 2017
  • Armed and Insecure: An overview of arms transfers and armed violence in the Horn of Africa (2010-2015)
    PAX | 2010
  • O Brasil e as lágrimas de Obama
    Folha de São Paulo | 2016
  • Small Arms, Big Violations
    SUR International Journal on Human Rights | 2015
  • War in peace: the big toll of small arms
    OpenSecurity | 2014
  • What Next? Thoughts for Global Civil Society Working on Arms Control and Armed Violence Reduction
    Instituto Sou da Paz | 2014