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Managing Landmine Casualty Data, Cisr Jmu Dec 2001

Managing Landmine Casualty Data, Cisr Jmu

CISR Studies and Reports

The Mine Action Information Center (MAIC) at James Madison University implemented this project to develop a framework for the systematic collection and management of landmine casualty data. The project was premised on the lack of an adequate system for collecting and managing landmine casualty data on a global basis. Data on landmine and UXO casualties is being collected in a systematic manner in some countries, but worldwide, it is not being collected in a comprehensive or consistent manner that allows it to be compared cross-nationally and aggregated globally. The lack of an adequate system hampers the ability of mine action …

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Maritime Security : Issues And Implications For Maritime Administration, Rajeev Kumar Sinha Dec 2001

Maritime Security : Issues And Implications For Maritime Administration, Rajeev Kumar Sinha

World Maritime University Dissertations

The dissertation is a study into maritime security related impact on national maritime administration seen from regulatory and legal point of view. The subject details on the policy formulation facet with in the national framework. The study starts with a look at the present security scenario in maritime domain and provides an analysis of the threat scenario influencing the vital interest of a country and current developments in the industry. A brief description of factors behind these threats and the vulnerability of shipping are examined in this context. Legal issues encompassing the security regime both at international and national level …

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The Role Of The Imo In The Maritime Governance Of Terrorism, Lucio Javier Salonio Dec 2001

The Role Of The Imo In The Maritime Governance Of Terrorism, Lucio Javier Salonio

World Maritime University Dissertations

The objective of this study is to identify the role of the IMO within the international actions against global terrorism after the attacks of September 11 2001, in the USA. The essential and relevant elements of terrorism are observed within academic definitions in order to examine how they affect policies and strategies that guide a response against it. The impacts of terrorist attacks on society are appreciated in their influence on trade and all aspects. The constituency of the response is analyzed in search for the principles that may give an approach that is not simply limited to the issuance …

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Development And Implementation Of Uniform Safety Standards For Inland Waterways Vessels And Non-Convention Craft In Africa : The Case Of The Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Tasiyana Wisdom Tengananwo Kamanga Dec 2001

Development And Implementation Of Uniform Safety Standards For Inland Waterways Vessels And Non-Convention Craft In Africa : The Case Of The Southern African Development Community (Sadc), Tasiyana Wisdom Tengananwo Kamanga

World Maritime University Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the enhancement of maritime safety and environmental protection in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) through the development and implementation of uniform regional safety standards. The study looks at a multiplicity of issues to be considered to achieve the desired goal. A brief look is taken of the existing legislative framework and institutional arrangements in the region both in the dissertation and annexes. Initiatives being taken both at national level and regional level to address the problems will be analysed with emphasis on those taken at regional level. The study also looks at diverse issues of …

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Sustainable Management Of The National Forests, Dale N. Bosworth Dec 2001

Sustainable Management Of The National Forests, Dale N. Bosworth

Research and Reports

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Building A Magnet School Network In Rural Communities, Linda Moody, Susan Fritz, Lloyd C. Bell, Valerie Egger Dec 2001

Building A Magnet School Network In Rural Communities, Linda Moody, Susan Fritz, Lloyd C. Bell, Valerie Egger

Nebraska Network 21: Publications

Maintaining rural community economic viability, schools, and retaining youth are concerns for many rural areas. The current population shift from rural to urban areas is compounding the issue. One means of keeping young people and adults in rural communities and encouraging people to move from urban to rural communities is to provide high quality, relevant, affordable educational programs on demand. The Mead Agricultural Sciences Magnet School, the first rural magnet school, was created to fill such a void. Now in its third year of operation, the rural agricultural sciences magnet school concept is being incorporated into three other communities.

The …

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The Cresset (Vol. Lxv, No. 2 & 3, Christmas/Epiphany), Valparaiso University Dec 2001

The Cresset (Vol. Lxv, No. 2 & 3, Christmas/Epiphany), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

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The Devolution Of Managed Care Contractor Duties: Analysis And Implications For Public Policy In Managed Behavioral Health Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Anne R. Markus, Joel B. Teitelbaum Dec 2001

The Devolution Of Managed Care Contractor Duties: Analysis And Implications For Public Policy In Managed Behavioral Health Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Anne R. Markus, Joel B. Teitelbaum

Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs

This Issue Brief analyzes the devolution of the legal duties assumed by managed care organizations (MCOs) in their contracts with group purchasers. Specifically, this brief examines the delegation of MCO contractual duties related to member care and services to individual network providers by comparing the language used in master contracts between purchasers and MCOs with the language contained in agreements with network health care providers who serve members covered under the master contract.

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The Landmines Resource Center For Lebanon, Habbouba Aoun Dec 2001

The Landmines Resource Center For Lebanon, Habbouba Aoun

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After 15 years of war and 22 years of occupation, Lebanon is littered with landmines. The Landmines Resource Center (LMRC) seeks to improve the situation by collecting, analyzing and disseminating related data.

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Mine Awareness Education In The Republic Of Yemen, Aisha Saeed Nalya Dec 2001

Mine Awareness Education In The Republic Of Yemen, Aisha Saeed Nalya

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Republic of Yemen is situated on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. It is a country of beautiful scenes and architecture. The Republic of Yemen has 17 million people and is growing at a rate of 3.7 percent annually.

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The Jordanian Humanitarian Demining Program: A Model Of Optimism And Persistence, Jose Saucedo Dec 2001

The Jordanian Humanitarian Demining Program: A Model Of Optimism And Persistence, Jose Saucedo

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Detecting and removing over 300,000 estimated mines in Jordan’s 509 mine fields is a huge but not insurmountable problem. The deliberate clearing process requires courageous patience, a demonstrated quality of Jordan’s highly qualified engineer officers and soldiers. Trained and experienced deminers, outfitted with state-of-the-art protective equipment and using internationally recognized demining techniques and methodologies, form the base of the Royal Corps of Engineers Humanitarian Demining (HD) attack plan. Though many mines are unaccounted for due to erosion, flooding, and accidental detonation, Royal Corps of Engineer HD soldiers have an established perseverance that will prevail.

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Comments On The "Detonation" Approach, Robert Keeley Dec 2001

Comments On The "Detonation" Approach, Robert Keeley

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Daniel Wolf and Steven Barmazel discussed the Public Health approach to demining in an article entitled "The Necessity of Implementing a Public-Health Approach to Humanitarian Demining," making some very valid points. However, Robert Keeley points out some problems with this approach that he feels need to be addressed before this method can be successful.

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Geneva Diary: Report From The Gichd, Paddy Blagden Dec 2001

Geneva Diary: Report From The Gichd, Paddy Blagden

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The GICHD has been assisting the ICRC with technical information on both AT mines and submunitions. GICHD also addresses other areas of special concern to mine action.

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U.S. Humanitarian Demining In The Middle East, Stacy L. Smith Dec 2001

U.S. Humanitarian Demining In The Middle East, Stacy L. Smith

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The United States seeks to relieve human suffering caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) while promoting U.S. foreign policy interests. U.S. objectives are to reduce civilian casualties, create conditions for the safe return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes and reinforce an affected country’s stability. The U.S. seeks to accomplish these objectives by helping to establish and support sustainable indigenous mine action capabilities in mine-affected nations where appropriate. Since fiscal year 1993, the United States has committed almost $500 million (U.S.) to global mine action initiatives, including research and development and survivor assistance. Nearly $90 million (U.S.) …

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Interview With Miriam Coronel Ferrer Of The Non-State Actors Working Group, Margaret S. Busé Dec 2001

Interview With Miriam Coronel Ferrer Of The Non-State Actors Working Group, Margaret S. Busé

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The challenges and success of the Non-State Actors Working Group are discussed with Miriam Coronel Ferrer.

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Afghanistan, Country Profile Dec 2001

Afghanistan, Country Profile

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

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Current Mine Action Situation In Afghanistan, Susanna Sprinkel Dec 2001

Current Mine Action Situation In Afghanistan, Susanna Sprinkel

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Millions of landmines littering Afghani soil pose a horrifying threat to civilians fleeing their homelands and soldiers entering the area in response to the rising war on terrorism. Meanwhile, those attempting to clear these lands face their own malicious enemies.

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Non-State Actors And Their Significance, Margaret S. Busé Dec 2001

Non-State Actors And Their Significance, Margaret S. Busé

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Non-State Actors must be involved in any considerations about reducing the use of landmines, a mission which the Non-State Actors Working Group has set out to accomplish

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Yemen, Country Profile Dec 2001

Yemen, Country Profile

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Yemen

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Oman, Country Profile Dec 2001

Oman, Country Profile

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Oman

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Travelogue: Afghanistan, Oren J. Schlein Dec 2001

Travelogue: Afghanistan, Oren J. Schlein

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In early July 2001, I traveled to the Afghan cities of Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, and Kandahar. The purpose of my trip was to assess the status of our Adopt-A-Minefield® program in the country. I was hosted by the Mine Action Program for Afghanistan (MAPA), which is a part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan (UNOCHA). This report was written after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC on September 11, 2001. Adopt-A-Minefield® is a program of the United Nations Association of the USA.

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Humanitarian Demining In The Sultanate Of Oman, Steve Soucek, Darrell Strother Dec 2001

Humanitarian Demining In The Sultanate Of Oman, Steve Soucek, Darrell Strother

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Oman has a low to moderate landmine/unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem. Anti-tank (AT) and anti-personnel (AP) landmines were laid in the Dhofar region between 1964 and 1975 during an internal struggle with the People’s Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (PFLOG, later shortened to PFLO, a communist separatist group). Both the Royal Army of Oman (RAO)—with its allies Jordan, Iran and the United Kingdom—and the PFLO used landmines during the conflict; the RAO to support defensive positions or to interdict the separatists’ movements, and the separatists to ambush the RAO and allied units.

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Cost Effectiveness Of The Ethiopian And Eritrean Demining Programs, Michael Litzelman, Wayne Perry Dec 2001

Cost Effectiveness Of The Ethiopian And Eritrean Demining Programs, Michael Litzelman, Wayne Perry

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Long after anti-personnel landmines (AP) were planted to gain military advantage in battle, they continue to destroy lives by killing and maiming civilians and livestock, inhibiting productivity and preventing economies from developing in poor, third world countries. Landmines contribute to political instability in regions vital to the United States. The U. S. Department of State claims that there are approximately 85 to 200 million mines in 63 countries, producing approximately 15,000 casualties per year, an average of 70 people per day, or 500 people every week, most of them innocent civilians (DOS 1994). Of these, an estimated 9,500 people are …

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A Soldier’S Diary Of Desert Storm, Darin Buse Dec 2001

A Soldier’S Diary Of Desert Storm, Darin Buse

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

To say the mood was celebratory would be an understatement. As the last few thin-skinned vehicles crossed back through the burm that only days earlier had been breached, a shower of tracer fire and flares pierced the evening sky. The once neat file of Bradley fighting vehicles, 113 track vehicles, M1 Abrams tanks, trucks and hummvees now mobbed together in the desert just inside the border of Saudi Arabia. As a Psychological Operations Team Sergeant, I had never before been in such company as the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment. I was not prepared to witness the efficiency and overwhelming power …

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Mine Action In Egypt: The Landmine Struggle Center And Arabic Mine Action Campaign, Jenny Lange Dec 2001

Mine Action In Egypt: The Landmine Struggle Center And Arabic Mine Action Campaign, Jenny Lange

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Egypt’s land is plagued with almost 20 million mines/UXO dating back to WWII. The government does not want to remove them without help from those who planted them. In response, the Landmine Struggle Center and Arabic Mine Action Campaign were formed to help those who are affected.

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Humanitarian Mine Action In Northern Iraq, Tim Carstairs Dec 2001

Humanitarian Mine Action In Northern Iraq, Tim Carstairs

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Through sustained efforts, the Mines Advisory Group has made significant progress in the demining of war-torn Northern Iraq. Cooperation with local villagers has been a key to their success.

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Technology Needs: Mine Clearance In Egypt And Jordan, James Trevelyan Dec 2001

Technology Needs: Mine Clearance In Egypt And Jordan, James Trevelyan

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

I visited Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon in September and October 1999 to learn about mine clearance techniques being used in the Middle East (Trevelyan 2000). This paper summarizes some of my observations and suggestions for further developments.

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Strategic Planning In Yemen, Tim Lardner, Matt Craig Dec 2001

Strategic Planning In Yemen, Tim Lardner, Matt Craig

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The first ever Landmine Impact Survey was completed in Yemen in July 2000 by the Mine Clearance Planning Agency. With the help of Cranfield Mine Action, Yemen has been developing a strategy to maximize the efficiency of its mine action program.

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Landmine Survivor’S Network Provides Victim Assistance In Jordan, Kathleen Powers Dec 2001

Landmine Survivor’S Network Provides Victim Assistance In Jordan, Kathleen Powers

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

According to military figures, most mine incidents occurred during the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict spilled into Jordan. Incidents rose again during the early part of the 1990s due to heavy rains and floods that shifted landmines from their originally marked and mapped fields into unrecorded areas.

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Background On The Mine/Uxo Problem, Mohamed Ahmen Dec 2001

Background On The Mine/Uxo Problem, Mohamed Ahmen

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Twenty-two years of conflict have left a significant number of unfenced and unmarked mine fields in southern Lebanon, requiring strong coordination between various organizations in order to meet emergency demands.

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