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National Mine Action Plan For Completion - Mauritania, Government Of Mauritania
National Mine Action Plan For Completion - Mauritania, Government Of Mauritania
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The National Mine Action Plan developed by the Government of Mauritania, written in 2007, to achieve goals and outcomes sought by the Mine Ban Treaty and Ottawa Convention.
Guide To Mine Risk Education And Tools, Mozambique Pilot Project, 2005-06, Hi
Guide To Mine Risk Education And Tools, Mozambique Pilot Project, 2005-06, Hi
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This presentation was part of the LMAD practioners meeting that took place in Geneva in April 2007.
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices Related To Landmines And Unexploded Ordnance, Hi
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices Related To Landmines And Unexploded Ordnance, Hi
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In Somalia, there is an identified need to undertake a mine risk education program. Although the quantitative number of landmines and UXO has been reliably established since the Landmine Impact Survey conducted in 2003, it is clear that communities living in particular areas of Somalia have a high perception of living in a mined area. An initial first step in designing an appropriate mine risk education program in Somaliland has been established by Handicap International and UNICEF collaboratively through a survey conducted in 2002, which undertook this Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in three regions of the North West Zone. The …
Local Perceptions And Responses To Risk: A Study Of A Cambodian Village, Krisna Uk
Local Perceptions And Responses To Risk: A Study Of A Cambodian Village, Krisna Uk
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This dissertation focuses on the ways Khmer peasants living in a landmine-affected community build their survival strategy in the face of dangers and uncertainties that may physically, economically and socially impair their lives. Rural families living in post-conflict areas face a wide range of risks that encompass but are by no means limited to anti-personnel landmines. Western frames of analysis have assumed that peasants are essentially risk averse. This paper argues that in a situation where families lack livelihood alternatives, it is by confronting risk that they protect themselves. This dissertation argues that distinctions between apparently risk prone and risk …