Isacs Accountability Project

the isacs accountability project is a virtual non profit volunteer organization for business, non-profit organizations, and private individuals. the provisional mission is to improve the transparency, accountability, credibility, and legitimacy of the united nations international small arms control standards multi-stakeholder initiative (un isacs msi) and its normative instruments. in the field of international law, “normative” instruments are those aimed at steering behavior of actors and/or determining, reducing, or otherwise constraining the freedoms of actors, and/or unilaterally shaping the legal or factual situation of actors. [1] actors can be state or non-state in nature. non-state actors are generally understood to include, among other things, corporations and individual private citizens. in the words of isacs project coordinator dr. patrick mc carthy, isacs was envisioned to “serve as a powerful strategic and operational instrument of [small arms and light weapons] contro