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The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Journal

2005

Risk education

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Spirit Of Soccer: Enriching And Saving Lives Through The Beautiful Game, Jim Marshall, Scotty Lee Aug 2005

Spirit Of Soccer: Enriching And Saving Lives Through The Beautiful Game, Jim Marshall, Scotty Lee

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

According to the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), a mine risk education (MRE) project should achieve the following:

  • Provide information, assurance and encouragement required to encourage mine-safe behaviour.
  • Identify and promote model mine-safe behaviour.
  • Teach essential skills and ensure that beneficiaries can utilise these skills.
  • Provide a social environment that supports mine-safe behaviour.
  • Provide ongoing encouragement to sustain mine-safe behaviour.
  • Encourage beneficiaries to transfer knowledge and information to others.


Intersos: Thinking Over And Practicing Mre In Iraq, Pia Cantini, Valentina Crini Aug 2005

Intersos: Thinking Over And Practicing Mre In Iraq, Pia Cantini, Valentina Crini

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Mine risk education (MRE) has become ever more essential to any humanitarian mine action programme and, recently, to any reconstruction and development strategy of mine-/UXO-affected countries. MRE has been passing through an evolution, both in terms of policies and international/national capacities.