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Ddasaccident174, Hd-Aid

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The victim was told to get a marking stick by his supervisor. While he was doing so, he stood on the "booster" of a PMN-2 that had been "destroyed" on 20th December 1996. The "booster" had lain hidden in a clump of grass 2m (or 4m on an attached sketch-map) from where the mine was "destroyed". The "booster" left a crater of 10cm diameter x 5cm deep.

Ddasaccident175, Hd-Aid

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The demining team were clearing land so that an NGO could build a road. There was a deserted house at the site. The area was densely vegetated and strewn with a large number of fragments. Victim No.1 was a detector man. His partner cleared some vegetation and then returned to the rest area. Victim No.1 tested the detector a second time and went to sweep the area.

Un Military Demands And Non-Offensive Defensive Security Humanitarian Intervention And Peace Operations, Bjφrn Mφller

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Reasons For Illegalization Of Nuclear Weapons, Takashi Hiraoka

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Conflict-Mitigation In Reconstruction And Development, Jan Øberg

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Towards A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, Ramesh Thakur

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Social Cubism: Six Social Forces Of Ethnoterritorial Politics In Northern Ireland And Quebec, Sean Byrne, Neal Carter

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Reasons For Illegalization Of Nuclear Weapons, Takashi Hiraoka

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Ddasaccident030, Hd-Aid

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A director of the demining company was interviewed about this accident on 15th December 1998. From memory he reported that the victim had been clearing a mine-belt at a village. The victim was a deminer and had just investigated a detector reading and found a fragment when the accident occurred. Without rechecking the area with his detector, he advanced and stepped on a Gyata-64. His foot was blown off but he had no other significant injuries.

Ddasaccident061, Hd-Aid

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The investigators were unable to approach the accident site when they visited on 2nd December 1996. They returned on 5th December when the area had been re-cleared. Their report stated that the demining group were working on two sites, with 18 men at one site and seven men working at the other. Both came under an expatriate supervisor who was at the larger site 18k away). The track being cleared ran along the side of "an old railway embankment". It was described as "distinct" but "overgrown with sparse vegetation". [A photograph showed stubs of coarse grass in the path and …

Ddasaccident062, Hd-Aid

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The report gave a timetable of events which indicated that the team started work at 06:00 and the accident occurred at 07:05 when the victim "prodded onto" a PPM-2. By 07:09 the victim had been carried to a safe area by two colleagues and was receiving treatment from the medic. The deminer "took deep blast wound to the area between the thumb and forefinger" of his left hand. The medic did not administer painkillers but "packs wound on the hand".

Ddasaccident063, Hd-Aid

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Meanwhile deminers from another team approached and joined the two who had moved closer to the sticks lying by the missed mine. As Victim No.1 bent to pick up the sticks he stepped on the mine with his left foot. His body was low down and immediately over the mine. As he had been resting, he was not wearing any protective equipment. He suffered traumatic amputation of his left foot, amputation of "several" fingers of his right hand, a broken jaw, his lower lip was torn away, both eyes were severely damaged (resulting in blindness) and the "frontal area of …

Ddasaccident064, Hd-Aid

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The demining group's spokesman reported that the accident occurred on a day when two clearance teams were sent to work at an area that had been previously surveyed and marked. When the teams arrived they found that the warning signs and marking system had been removed (presumed stolen). The teams had to determine the borders of the area to be cleared again. There was a path running along one side of the area and the two Team Leaders disagreed over whether the path had been inside or outside of the original marked area. They finally decided that it had been …

Review Of "Separatism And Women's Community" By D. R. Shugar, Wendy E. Chmielewski

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Ddasaccident176, Hd-Aid

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The two men were close to the detonation and both suffered severe hand injury so a handling accident is inferred. Light face injuries including eye "burns" imply that their safety spectacles were not worn. If the victims were handling the device, the control failure is compounded because the demining group's SOPs did not allow them to handle devices.

Ddasaccident361, Hd-Aid

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The Victim picked up a rock and moved back with it to put it to one side. He had withdrawn two meters when a dislodged rock rolled into the area he had cleared of rocks and detonated a Type-72a blast mine.

The Un Department Of Humanitarian Affairs In Angola: A Model For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Assistance?, Toby Lanzer

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This report outlines the problems of, and gives recommendations on the mine action activities in Angola. It looks at the situation which faces the Central Mine Action Office (CMAO) and the possibilities to improve the situation. The complicated relationship between CMAO and the National Institute for the Removal of Obstacles and Explosive Ordnance (INAROE) is of main concern. The aim was to draft an agreement between CMAO and INAROE and to assess the institutional structure in which CMAO was operating, to indentify problems, and to recommend an effective and sustainable alternative structure.

Information Warfare: Technology And The Information Advantage, Daniel Matthew Parker

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis analyzes information warfare--that emerging form of warfare that attempts to destroy, degrade and exploit the information systems of another, while protecting one's own--in the context of the technology of warfare. Just as one might peel an onion, the analysis proceeds from a general analysis of technology in warfare to the more specific analysis of information warfare as it is currently defined. Information technology is an enabling factor in the emergence of information warfare as a new warfare area. Although it is revolutionizing the way warfare is conducted, the elements of information warfare have been practiced for thousands of …

Lao Pdr National Unexploded Ordnance (Uxo) Programme, Ian Mansfield

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A brief country report from Laos and its contamination of UXO left following the Second Indochina War.

Ddasaccident065, Hd-Aid

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At around 11:10 the victim got a detector reading and began "prodding and excavating the ground using a bayonet" held in his left hand. A PPM-2 mine detonated. The victim was knocked backward "about" two metres by the blast and was lying partly in an uncleared area. He stood up quickly, leaving his visor which had been "blown away and broken by the blast". The victim received first aid and arrived at the field hospital at 11:20.

Ddasaccident081, Hd-Aid

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The victim prodded onto a mine at 07:55. There was a 45cm gap between the accident site and the "recognised face of clearance", indicating that the victim was prodding ahead of his end of lane marker. It was difficult to determine whether the victim had prodded the ground up to the site of the explosion

Ddasaccident066, Hd-Aid

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Prior to the accident a two-man team including Victim No.3 were clearing a one metre wide lane. They were wearing frag-jackets, helmets and visors. The Team supervisor (a Uruguayan National) was not wearing protective clothing. He became Victim No.1. Another ex-pat supervisor (Pakistani National) on site was wearing a helmet and visor. He became Victim No.2. The deminers could see a partly exposed PMN about two metres in front of the end-of-lane marker stick.

A Pre-Negotiation Guide To The Conflict In Northern Ireland, Padraig O'Malley

John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications

On September 1, 1994, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a ceasefire.

The declaration was potentially one of the most significant developments in Irish history since Ireland was partitioned in 1920. It represented, or at the time it seemed to represent, an acknowledgement by the IRA and its political wing, Sinn Fein, that Ireland cannot be united by physical force, that the armed struggle of the last twenty five years to drive the British out of Northern Ireland has not worked, that the strategy of "the Long War," based on the premise that if the IRA persisted in its campaign …

Ramaphosa And Meyer In Belfast – The South African Experience: How The New South Africa Was Negotiated, Padraig O'Malley

John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications

The public lecture given by Cyril Ramaphosa and RoelfMeyer at the Europa Hotel in Belfast on 28 June 1996 was held under the auspices of The Irish Association. The sponsors are grateful to the Association for their unstinting support and the organization it provided to ensure the success of the event. The sponsors would especially like to acknowledge the contributions of Professor Bernard Cullen, President of the Association and Ms. Barbara FitzGerald.

As one ofthe co-sponsors ofthe event, the John W. McCormack Institute ofPublic Affairs at the University ofMassachusetts Boston would also like to single out the contribution of the …

Domination And Resistance, Exclusion And Inclusion: Indigenous People’S Quest For Peace And Justice, Franke Wilmer

Peace and Conflict Studies

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What Can We Learn From Comparing Mediation Across Levels, Tom Molburn

Peace and Conflict Studies

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The United Nations At Fiftysomething: Challenges And Dilemmas In The Post-Cold War Era, Martin Martin Rochester

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Creating Global-Local Cultures Of Peace, Paul Smoker, Linda Groff

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Peace In Our Global Neighbourhood, Shridath Ramphal

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Ddasaccident325, Hd-Aid

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Despite the absence of a paramedic, [the Victim] who has the position of Team Leader in the organisation, decided to commence work the morning of 24th May 1996 on the security strip. At this stage the security strip had a large number of PMN-2 anti-personnel mines exposed by the machines and was very dangerous. He entered the security strip at approximately 12:00 and approximately 30 minutes later a muffled explosion was heard inside the strip.