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Ddasaccident700, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident700, Hd-Aid

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As it was a difficult task for the clearance, and required extra attention and care of command group and deminers themselves, thus the carelessness of deminer was the main contributing factor to this accident. The consequence of this accident is a slight injury to the finger of deminer which indicates that he was fully dressed with PPE.

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Ddasaccident694, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident694, Hd-Aid

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Carelessness of deminer and poor supervision in terms of not conducted QC, caused the accident, and happened.

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Ddasaccident691, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident691, Hd-Aid

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The negligence of deminer in terms of not adhering to set procedure for excavation and the failure of command group in order to control the deminer and stop him from wrong practice is the contributing factors for this accident

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Ddasaccident692, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident692, Hd-Aid

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The investigation team concluded that the contributing factor to this accident was Carelessness of deminer in terms of use of bayonet by left hand which was in contrary to his habit.

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Ddasaccident687, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident687, Hd-Aid

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The accident occurred because of the ignorance of standard operating procedures and appropriated method of demolitions and destruction of ammunitions.

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Ddasaccident673, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident673, Hd-Aid

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Refering to other accidents with this demining group at this period, the Victim may have been using a “pick”. Whatever tool the Victim was using, it is likely that he did not pinpoint the detector signal correctly and so began excavating on top of the mine.

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Ddasaccident654, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident654, Hd-Aid

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It is the BOI conclusion that the deminer, [the Victim], was not clearly marking his lane progressively throughout the course of the day. He has moved back into his clearance lane during a break period, without wearing his PPE and helmet, to place a marking stone. He has not wanted to get too close to the unsafe area and has leant forward and thrown the marking stone forward to mark the lane. This stone has landed on a mine with the detonation causing the stones to be thrown up from the blast and inflicting the injuries that have resulted in …

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Ddasaccident636, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident636, Hd-Aid

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The accident occurred because of carelessness of the deminer as he used chisel directly on the detected signal instead of [Demining group] standard excavating tool (scraper). The poor command and control is another contributing factor for this accident as he was not stopped by command group.

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Ddasaccident791, Hd-Aid Oct 2008

Ddasaccident791, Hd-Aid

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Task # 824 was one of the tasks surveyed by MCPA and then cleared by [Demining group] in period of around 10 months. The clearance operations started there on 12th December 2005 and completed on 17th November 2006. After completion of clearance operations and handing over of this task to local population, on 3rd of October 2008 a civilian mine accident happened to a 13 years old boy walking in the area busy in kite playing.

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Evaluation Of Mine Risk Education In The Kingdom Of Cambodia, Cambodian Mine Action And Victim Assistance Authority Oct 2008

Evaluation Of Mine Risk Education In The Kingdom Of Cambodia, Cambodian Mine Action And Victim Assistance Authority

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Mine Risk Education (MRE) has been implemented in Cambodia since 1993 with the aim of encouraging people to adopt mine/UXO risk avoidance behaviours to prevent mine/UXO injures. Mine Risk Education is coordinated by the MRE Unit of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) and implemented through both government and non-government service providers. Key service providers are the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), CARE, The HALO Trust, Handicap International Belguim (HIB), Mines Advisory Group (MAG), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS), National Police, Spirit of Soccer (SOS) and World Vision Cambodia. Initial activities …

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The Interplay Of Peace, Justice, And Logic: Bali-Bawock As A Case Study For Inter-Ethnic Land Disputes, Masumi Hayashi-Smith Oct 2008

The Interplay Of Peace, Justice, And Logic: Bali-Bawock As A Case Study For Inter-Ethnic Land Disputes, Masumi Hayashi-Smith

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

his paper seeks to explore the conflict existing between two ethnic groups, the Bali-Nyonga and the Bawock, as a case study for inter-ethnic land dispute. Through the process of this study the researcher tried to look past arguments of logic in order to uncover the struggle for autonomy, the struggle for respect, and how damaging the muddy relationship between tradition and modernity can be. She found that ultimately models of mediation and dialogue were the most constructive in helping the conflict’s actors heal among themselves, and to develop the tools for interacting with a globalized society.

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Past Meets Present: History Education In Northern Ireland, Will Ehrenfeld Oct 2008

Past Meets Present: History Education In Northern Ireland, Will Ehrenfeld

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The inevitable question as a society emerges from conflict is how to deal with the past. Commemorate and remember or forget and move on? More importantly, how does this choice affect the participants in the conflict and other members of society—how is commemoration or disregard transmitted to the population? Looking around the world at societies emerging from all types and degrees of conflict, divergent approaches to this seminal question are taken at every turn. Centrally, societies must decide how to deal with perpetrators of violence; South Africa may have the most famous method for dealing with victims and perpetrators of …

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“Art As Direct Political Action:” An Investigation Through Case Studies And Interviews, Emily Meinhardt Oct 2008

“Art As Direct Political Action:” An Investigation Through Case Studies And Interviews, Emily Meinhardt

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In 1970, Artforum, an international magazine of contemporary art, conducted a survey of various important artists asking the following question: what is your position regarding the kinds of direct political action that should be taken by artists? The question was asked in relation to the “deepening political crisis in America,” the Vietnam War. The development of television brought images of war into American homes more dramatically and immediately than any previous conflict. Though the war was taking place abroad, the violence was made real to audiences, including artists, many of whom felt pressure to respond to the political situation. Around …

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International Black Nobel Prize Winners, John Green Sep 2008

International Black Nobel Prize Winners, John Green

Detroit Area Peace and Justice Groups

Digital image of poster depicting Black Nobel prize winners. The poster was produced by the Historical Research Repository and has a 1992 date. Depicted on the poster are: Ralph Johnson Bunche, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert John Luthuli, Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Sir William Arthur Lewis, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka.

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Henry Ossian Flipper, John Green Sep 2008

Henry Ossian Flipper, John Green

Detroit Area Peace and Justice Groups

Image and text from tin about the life of Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American man to attend West Point.

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Come And Join Us Brothers, John Green Sep 2008

Come And Join Us Brothers, John Green

Detroit Area Peace and Justice Groups

Image and text from tin about the recruitment of African American soldiers to fight in the American civil war.

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Cake Walk, John Green Sep 2008

Cake Walk, John Green

Detroit Area Peace and Justice Groups

Image of tin and accompanying text about the Cake walk, a traditional dance historically attributed to African Americans in the 19th century.

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Ddasaccident674, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident674, Hd-Aid

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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a Field Control Inadequacy because the investigators determined that poor command and control was a cause. The secondary cause is listed as Other because there is too little detail in the summary to be able to assess what occurred.

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Ddasaccident656, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident656, Hd-Aid

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It is unusual for a severe foot injury to occur during excavation. The Victim must have been standing or squatting and, despite mention of a “trowel”, he may have been using the ubiquitous “pick”. The Inadequate equipment listed under Notes refers to the use of inappropriate tools, as identified by the investigators. If he was using a trowel, it is likely that he did not pinpoint the detector signal correctly and so began excavating on top of the mine, as has been reported with several other accidents in this theatre at this time.

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Ddasaccident784, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident784, Hd-Aid

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The BOI team believes this detonation may have occurred as a result of the deminer having leant forward from a safe point and thrown a marking stone down onto the ground. His aim may have been off and he may have inadvertently thrown the stone onto a mine that had not previously been found in the lane. The mine has detonated, propelling the marking stone and other stones back at him with the marking stone striking him in the chest and the remaining stones having caused the injuries around the forehead and eyes. Unfortunately these injuries have resulted in his …

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Ddasaccident652, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident652, Hd-Aid

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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a Field Control Inadequacy because the investigators determined that the supervisor allowed the machine to work in bad weather and did not correct the driver’s error. The secondary cause is listed as Victim Inattention because it seems that the driver did not intend to reverse out of the cleared area. There may have been inadequate area marking in place.

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Ddasaccident651, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident651, Hd-Aid

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It is the conclusion of the investigation team that the carelessness of involved team leader cased the accident. As he intentionally picked up the device and tampered it without taking precautionary measures in to consideration

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Ddasaccident810, Hd-Aid Sep 2008

Ddasaccident810, Hd-Aid

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The explosion happened during the placing of a 1.5 metre marking stick. The detonation occurred at a distance of 7.5 metres behind of the deminer. The mine explosion occurred due to the deminer not paying attention or not identifying the sound of the detector before hammering the marking stick onto the trip-wire of a POMZ-2M.

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Performance Evaluation Test Of The Nemesis M3, Institute For Defense Analysis, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research And Development, Office Of The Assistant Secretary Of Defense Special Operations And Low-Intensity Conflict Sep 2008

Performance Evaluation Test Of The Nemesis M3, Institute For Defense Analysis, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research And Development, Office Of The Assistant Secretary Of Defense Special Operations And Low-Intensity Conflict

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In its continuing program to provide a complete size-range of area-preparation systems to the world’s humanitarian demining community, the United States Humanitarian Demining Research and Development Program, located at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, developed a lightweight area-preparation system around the ASV Inc. SR-80 rubber-tracked crawler with a family of attachments. The system, assembled by Applied Research Associates, Inc., and named the Nemesis, is intended to cut and mulch up to Category 3 (difficult, up to 10 cm diameter trees) vegetation and to remove cutting debris. Attachments used during this evaluation test were the Bradco, Inc., Mini-Mag Mulcher Model XL 165-6; the …

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Ddasaccident704, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident704, Hd-Aid

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It is the conclusion of the investigation team that the carelessness of involved deminer, use of wrong tool for excavation and poor supervision caused the accident happened.

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Ddasaccident697, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident697, Hd-Aid

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It is the conclusion of investigation team that the carelessness of involved ATL, deviation from AMAS and [Demining group]’s SOP and use of dark visor during disarming operation on the fuse are the contributing factors to this accident. Additionally the rule of supervision is vital in preventing such accidents.

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Ddasaccident577, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident577, Hd-Aid

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Initial reports state that [the Victim] was working in his lane when a he initiated an unknown item. The size of the blast would indicate a partial or fuse assembly. A few seconds later, a larger explosion was heard, where [Name removed] had moved from his lane to assist [The victim]. [The second accident occurred when the rescuer] moved using the shortest possible route, through uncleared area. [See DDAS Accident 578 for details of the rescuer.]

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Ddasaccident688, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident688, Hd-Aid

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It is the conclusion of the investigation team that the carelessness of involved deminer, poor command and control and deviation from SOPs caused the accident happened.

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Ddasaccident780, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident780, Hd-Aid

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On 22 August 2008 while de-miner [the Victim] was working in his clearance lane from up downward direction. He used scraper as a standard tool for excavation, but the area was hard and bushy. The de-miner hit the mine directly on its top during excavation and caused the explosion. However the deminer had worn his PPE but has got some injuries on his finger and arm of his right hand.

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Ddasaccident665, Hd-Aid Aug 2008

Ddasaccident665, Hd-Aid

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On 17 August 2010 [the Victim] the deminer was working in his clearance lane excavating a detected signal, his excavation tool touched a mine and caused it to explode. According to the investigation report the signal was not pinpointed correctly and the deminer has used his bayonet directly on the top of anti-personnel mine, so the accident happened. Unfortunately the victim deminer was not fully dressed with PPE, so he got severe injuries on his eyes, whole face and finger of his left hand.

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