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A New Name And Mission For The International Trust Fund For Demining And Mine Victims Assistance, Cisr Journal
A New Name And Mission For The International Trust Fund For Demining And Mine Victims Assistance, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since its formation in 1998 by the Slovenian Government, the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance has continuously expanded and enhanced its mission, widening its scope of activities to reflect the changing human-security environment, needs of beneficiary countries and priorities of the donor community. Now it has a new name to reflect its broader mission: ITF Enhancing Human Security.
Director's Letter, Cisr Journal
Director's Letter, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
I don’t believe in sitting still. When you work with survivors and leaders from the global landmine-action community, how could you? I’m inspired on a daily basis by their courage, fortitude and resilience—characteristics I saw recently during a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan.
Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira
Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In September 2011, 25 female veterans of Burundi’s civil war were trained to become peer-support workers. The five-day training, funded under a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and conducted by James Madison University’s Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, was the first of its kind to offer peer-counseling skills to nonliterate and semiliterate women.
Ddg Aid Workers Rescued, Cisr Journal
Ddg Aid Workers Rescued, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
No abstract provided.
Azerbaijan National Agency For Mine Action, Cisr Journal
Azerbaijan National Agency For Mine Action, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 1994, hostilities between Armenian forces and the Azerbaijani military ceased. Although a lasting peace agreement is still being negotiated, this ending marked the beginning of a long process of landmine and unexploded-ordnance removal in the region bordering Armenia. In 1999, the Government of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Development Programme signed an agreement that established the Azerbaijan Mine Action Programme to deal with landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance. The implementing agency of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Programme is the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action, which is responsible for the planning, coordination, management and monitoring of all mine-action activities …
The Humpty Dumpty Institute, Cisr Journal
The Humpty Dumpty Institute, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 1998, a group of business entrepreneurs came together with a desire to tackle some of the world’s leading humanitarian problems. They developed the Humpty Dumpty Institute as a way to find creative solutions to global issues, such as explosive remnants of war and food security.
The Marshall Legacy Institute, Cisr Journal
The Marshall Legacy Institute, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Marshall Legacy Institute is a Virginia-based nonprofit organization formed in 1997 to extend the vision of Nobel Peace Prize laureate George C. Marshall by alleviating suffering and promoting hope, growth and stability in war-torn countries. For many nations, a primary obstacle to achieving sustainable progress is the deadly legacy of landmines that halt agricultural production, slow development, impede the return of refugees, and kill and injure innocent citizens.
Somalia Famine: Terrorism And Landmines Hinder Aid, Cisr Journal
Somalia Famine: Terrorism And Landmines Hinder Aid, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Drought, rising food prices, famine and conflict have forced thousands of Somalis to flee to neighboring countries or become internally displaced. Aid agencies continue delivering food, but the ongoing conflict between al-Shabab and Somali government forces makes additional help difficult. The landmine threat further exacerbates the crisis, contributing to food insecurity, endangering refugees and threatening aid agencies trying to reach those in need.
Anti-Tank Mines Kill Eight Cambodian Farmers, Cisr Journal
Anti-Tank Mines Kill Eight Cambodian Farmers, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Eight Cambodian farmers were killed and one was critically injured Friday, 3 February 2012, after their truck hit two anti-tank mines in Banteay Meanchey province in northwestern Cambodia.
Country Profile: Laos, Cisr Journal
Country Profile: Laos, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The landlocked country of Laos borders Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, Thailand and Vietnam.
Geneva International Centre For Humanitarian Demining, Cisr Journal
Geneva International Centre For Humanitarian Demining, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining’s mission is to serve as a leading center of mine-action excellence, and to help States Parties implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (also known as the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention or APMBC), the Convention on Cluster Munitions and other relevant instruments of humanitarian law. GICHD bridges the gaps between research, lessons learned and practice. It promotes evidence-based policies and develops standards, making mine action faster, cheaper, safer, more effective, sustainable and inclusive.
The Halo Trust, Cisr Journal
The Halo Trust, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 1988, following the withdrawal of Soviet Forces from Afghanistan, Guy Willoughby established The Hazardous Area Life-support Organization Trust—commonly known as The HALO Trust—a nonprofit organization dedicated to clearing explosive and hazardous remnants of war.
Life Line Consultancy And Rehabilitation, Cisr Journal
Life Line Consultancy And Rehabilitation, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
At the age of 14, Kamel Saadi became a landmine survivor and amputee. On 16 March 1979, Saadi was enjoying a barbecue picnic with family and friends near Umm Qais, an area along the Jordanian-Israeli border contaminated with landmines from Jordan’s conflicts with Israel during the 1960s and 1970s. While walking along a hilly pathway, he stepped on a rock concealing a landmine that caused severe damage to his foot; eight hours later, doctors amputated his left foot.
Norwegian People’S Aid, Cisr Journal
Norwegian People’S Aid, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Norwegian People’s Aid is the humanitarian organization of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (also known as LO). NPA is a politically independent organization but often takes political stances internationally in an effort to meet its strategic goals of “the just distribution of power and resources” and “the protection of life and health for all.”
Peacetrees Vietnam, Cisr Journal
Peacetrees Vietnam, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In 1969, Jerilyn Brusseau’s brother, American Daniel Cheney, died when his helicopter was shot down over Vietnam’s southern provinces. Brusseau vowed that when the war was over she would work for reconciliation. Gathered with friends around the breakfast table one Sunday morning, the group decided on an avenue to build bridges of reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam: “We wanted to take the spirit of ‘citizen diplomacy’ fostered by 18 previous international PeaceTrees programs in other countries to a deeper level, by working with the Vietnamese people in removing landmines and planting trees.”
Organization Of American States, Cisr Journal
Organization Of American States, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Organization of American States was established in 1948 with the signing of the Charter of the OAS in Bogotá, Colombia. The OAS was created to help the member states attain “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.”
World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal
World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
After nearly a lifetime of work as an educator in China and throughout the world, Welthy Honsinger Fisher returned to India to continue her work in education at the request of Mahatma Gandhi in 1947. She founded the Literacy House, a small school providing basic education and agricultural training for disadvantaged adults. Observing that literacy training was needed to empower men and women worldwide, in 1951, she and others founded World Education, an international nonprofit dedicated to world literacy.
Food Security Emerges As A Complex Global Challenge, Bryan Mcdonald
Food Security Emerges As A Complex Global Challenge, Bryan Mcdonald
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Measures are being taken toward land restoration and explosive remnants of war clearance to aid in worldwide food security. Global demining and ordnance removal efforts are contribiting to health improvements and land availability for sustainable crop growth. This article discusses the problem of food security in the twenty-first century and briefly reviews three sets of concerns that are converging to amplify, disrupt and transform efforts to ensure that all people have the food they need to lead active and healthy lives.
Of Water And War: The Delicate Relationship Between Water Scarcity And Conflict, Cisr Journal
Of Water And War: The Delicate Relationship Between Water Scarcity And Conflict, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Is it possible that the wars of the future could be fought over water, the most abundant natural resource on the planet? The following article explores the relationship between water, conflict and landmine-clearance efforts around the globe.
Second Conference On Psychosocial Rehabilitation For Landmine Survivors And Persons With Disabilities, Reykhan Muminova
Second Conference On Psychosocial Rehabilitation For Landmine Survivors And Persons With Disabilities, Reykhan Muminova
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Tajikistan Mine Action Centre and the Afghanistan Disability Support Programme hosted the second Regional Psychosocial Rehabilitation Conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 19–20 October 2011. This conference attracted high-level officials from key Afghan, Iranian and Tajik ministries and departments, as well as organizations working with landmine survivors, persons with disabilities and in psychosocial rehabilitation programs.
A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House
A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Transferred to the International Center in 2008, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation conducts a multitude of projects aiming to protect the health and welfare of the Vietnamese people. VVAF approaches the security and well-being of Vietnamese citizens with a holistic mindset. Projects include demining, rehabilitation, vocational training, Agent Orange and dioxin mitigation, community-based mental health training and school construction projects.
Spirit Of Soccer, Mike Geddes
Spirit Of Soccer, Mike Geddes
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
No abstract provided.
Replicating The Cambodia Trust Model, Carson Harte
Replicating The Cambodia Trust Model, Carson Harte
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Cambodia Trust was established in 1989 to assist those affected by disaster, conflict and poverty. It provides prosthetic-orthotic training, physical rehabilitation for persons with disabilities, assistance programs that enable children and adults with disabilities to secure general or higher education, vocational training and employment.
At Issue: Weapons Of War, Cisr Journal
At Issue: Weapons Of War, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The methodology of war has changed throughout history, from the trench warfare of World War I and the use of nuclear weapons in World War II to the drone technology of today.
New Online Tool Links Landmine, Cluster-Bomb And Disability Treaties, Erin Hunt
New Online Tool Links Landmine, Cluster-Bomb And Disability Treaties, Erin Hunt
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Mines Action Canada has launched a new interactive online tool to explain and make connections among three groundbreaking international humanitarian treaties: the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and Their Destruction (also known at the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention or APMBC), the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities.
Country Profile: Thailand, Cisr Journal
Country Profile: Thailand, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In May 1999, Thailand became a State Party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (also known as the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention, or APMBC).