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Full-Text Articles in Peace and Conflict Studies
Land Rights In Mine-Affected Countries, Jon Unruh, Gabrielle Chaizy, Sharmala Naidoo
Land Rights In Mine-Affected Countries, Jon Unruh, Gabrielle Chaizy, Sharmala Naidoo
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Land rights in conflict and post-conflict environments is an increasing area of concern within humanitarian and development communities. When conflicts end, land rights may be threatened, especially for women, subsistence farmers and other marginalized populations. Secure land rights are, therefore, a critical issue for humanitarian response, sustainable peace-building and longer-term economic recovery, particularly in countries where agriculture is key to livelihoods. While mine-action activities such as priority-setting, survey and clearance bring mine-action organizations into direct contact with land-rights issues, most tend to avoid these issues. This article looks at how mine-action organizations can better address land issues.
The Peco Wolverine: Evolution Of A Demining Area-Preparation Tool, Ronald Collins, Thomas Henderson
The Peco Wolverine: Evolution Of A Demining Area-Preparation Tool, Ronald Collins, Thomas Henderson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article discusses the development of an essential mine-action tool: a preparation system for demining areas thick with vegetation. After covering the need for the technology, the authors explain how a commercially available product evolved into a highly capable remote-controlled vegetation cutter for demining, and how the manufacturer subsequently adopted the modified system for the commercial marketplace. Modifications made to the PECO are discussed in depth, and an accompanying analysis provides interesting insight into how the PECO project became a success for those in need of an efficient and effective brush-clearing device.
Integration Of Clearance Assets, Mark Thompson
Integration Of Clearance Assets, Mark Thompson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Integrating a variety of demining activities, including machines and manual support, is vital to an operation’s efficiency and success. An appropriate integration plan must include analysis of context, support requirements and limitations.
Building Mine-Action Capacity Through Management Training, Ben Anderson
Building Mine-Action Capacity Through Management Training, Ben Anderson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre is Cambodia’s largest demining organization, established in 1993 to clear Cambodia of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. With funding from the New Zealand government, Quality Solutions International has worked for the last 12 months to rebuild and strengthen CMAC’s management and training capacity. Part of the project was the delivery of three two-week middle- management courses, designed to provide CMAC’s middle managers with a basic grounding in management theory and application.
Community Safety In Somalia, Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen
Community Safety In Somalia, Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Danish Demining Group is introducing new ways of working with conflict-affected populations in fragile parts of Somalia to pave the way for stabilization by enhancing community safety and improving livelihoods. Through a joint effort with the Danish Refugee Council, DDG strives to increase development and stability in violence-prone regions of Somalia using a community-driven, grassroots approach. This approach allows communities to work together on reconstruction projects as well as intervention strategies aimed at reducing violent behavior.
Amatc: Sustainable Solutions For Humanitarian Mine Action, Karen Reed-Matthee
Amatc: Sustainable Solutions For Humanitarian Mine Action, Karen Reed-Matthee
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Kabul’s Afghan Mine Action Technology Center employs disabled deminers to create demining products. AMATC donates part of its revenue to local physical rehabilitation and treatment facilities, and now employs 11 disabled employees full time.
Land-Release Information Management: Advocating For A Collaborative Approach, Aurora Martinez, Daniel Eriksson
Land-Release Information Management: Advocating For A Collaborative Approach, Aurora Martinez, Daniel Eriksson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
For land release to become more efficient and less dangerous, operations on the ground need accurate information. Collaboration between information management and operational planning will help increase safety while working toward releasing more land. The most challenging aspect of land release is the identification of boundaries around contaminated areas, and using new information technologies will aid not only operation managers in the area, but also senior managers setting long-term goals.
Mine Action Development Funding In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Michael Carrier, John Powell
Mine Action Development Funding In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Michael Carrier, John Powell
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Mine action seeks to eliminate the lingering effects of contamination from landmines and explosive remnants of war, but the need for development in these communities often trumps clearance and mine-risk education activities. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, where clearance activities are expected to continue until 2019, the Swiss Development Cooperation and Handicap International are exploring new ways for mine action to integrate development efforts into more traditional mine-action efforts.
Organization Profile: Regional Centre On Small Arms And Light Weapons, Cisr Journal
Organization Profile: Regional Centre On Small Arms And Light Weapons, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The following article examines the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which was created in March 2000. Since its inception, RECSA has provided its member states with support in the creation of National Focal Points on small-arms control and management. With its help, seven of RECSA’s member states have developed National Action Plans with goals including SA/LW marking, weapons disposal, and SA/LW education/awareness. Two additional countries are expected to have Action Plans in place in 2011.
The Terter Regional Vocational Training Center, Nick Nwolisa
The Terter Regional Vocational Training Center, Nick Nwolisa
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Recently, International Eurasia Press Fund helped to form the Terter Regional Vocational Training Center to provide computer, business and vocational training for mine victims and their family members. The victims are also given medical and legal help by the Azerbaijan Mine Victims Association. The VTC and the AMVA both work to help war victims reintegrate into society.
A Survivor’S Successful Story: Sadafmo, Reykhan Muminova
A Survivor’S Successful Story: Sadafmo, Reykhan Muminova
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
As one of more than 800 Tajik landmine victims, Rahmatova Sadafmo is a 32-year-old woman living in the small mountainous village of Dashtijum on the Tajik-Afghan border. Despite losing her leg in a tragic landmine accident, Sadafmo is able to support herself and her young son with assistance from the Tajikistan Mine Action Centre. She helps other landmine victims and looks toward her future with hope and enthusiasm.
D-Mine Training System: Safer And More Efficient Training Aid For Manual Deminers, Hans Johnsson
D-Mine Training System: Safer And More Efficient Training Aid For Manual Deminers, Hans Johnsson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
D-MINE™ is a training system that organizations can utilize to simulate situations deminers will actually face in the field. It has proven to be an effective and efficient means of preparing deminers both technically and mentally before they encounter any real mines.
Mine-Action Activities In Western Sahara, Ginevra Cucinotta
Mine-Action Activities In Western Sahara, Ginevra Cucinotta
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since 2007, the United Nations Mine Action Service has been implementing mine-action activities in Western Sahara. Although the parties to the conflict generally abide by a 1991 ceasefire, the expansive territory remains contaminated by an unknown quantity of mines and explosive remnants of war. The Mine Action Coordination Centre has provided technical coordination and quality assurance and plans to expand its mine-action operations.
Albania Makes Progress In Demilitarization, Matt Goodyear
Albania Makes Progress In Demilitarization, Matt Goodyear
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
With the goal of destroying all excess munitions by 2013, the Albanian government is working to eliminate stockpiles of excess military munitions. Following a 2008 deadly explosion at a munitions dismantling factory, the government established safer mandates and successfully destroyed thousands of tons of munitions.
Integrating Erw Programs: The Case For Consolidating Cwd Activities, Mark Adams
Integrating Erw Programs: The Case For Consolidating Cwd Activities, Mark Adams
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
For years, the mine-action community has been revising its definition of explosive remnants of war. Viewing unexploded ordnance, landmines, ammunition stockpiles, and small arms/light weapons as individual threats, the mine-action community has created distinct budgets, programs and policies to address each of them. What were beginning to realize, however, is that a more integrated approach allows for greater progress in reducing the ERW threat.
Bosnia And Herzegovina Demining 15 Years Later, Zoran Grujic
Bosnia And Herzegovina Demining 15 Years Later, Zoran Grujic
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article outlines the demining steps taken by the United Nations and national authorities following Bosnia and Herzegovina’s war in the 1990s. The author further explores the shortcomings and successes of the demining projects and laws, with attention to preparations for the state’s next decade of mine action.
The United Nations Portfolio Of Mine Action Projects, Cisr Journal
The United Nations Portfolio Of Mine Action Projects, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR, an all-female demining team assesses and clears unexploded ordnance-contaminated land. In Bogotá, Colombia, a team of practitioners nationalizes a plan to train local health personnel about the psychosocial needs of explosive-remnants-of-war victims. In Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, primary schoolchildren attend educational puppet shows about small-arms-and-light-weapons risks. At the heart of each initiative is a collaborative resource-mobilization system called the Portfolio of Mine Action Projects, and in 2010 it gives life to 277 projects in 27 countries.
The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 14.3 (2010), Cisr Journal
The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 14.3 (2010), Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Focus: Looking Beyond Mine Action | Feature: Development and Funding | Special Report: Update on National Programs | Notes from the Field | Research & Development
Mine-Action Program In Southern Sudan, Margaret M. Mathiang
Mine-Action Program In Southern Sudan, Margaret M. Mathiang
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Following more than two decades of civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan, much of Southern Sudan has been left contaminated with landmines and explosive remnants of war. As a result, the Southern Sudan Demining Authority, along with the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Mine Action Office and other organizations, have been diligently working toward clearing 80 percent of the mines in Southern Sudan by 2011.
Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Programme, Edwin Faigmane
Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Programme, Edwin Faigmane
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In this article, UXO Lao reports on its development from 1996 to the present. Focuses include issues related to productivity, quality control, capacity building, gender equality, UXO clearance, and development and funding.
Mine Action In North Sudan, Khalid Ibrahim Hamed
Mine Action In North Sudan, Khalid Ibrahim Hamed
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
North Sudan’s National Mine Action Centre is making great strides toward clearing all known mined areas in Sudan’s northern regions by April 2014. In the following article, the author, a Quality Assurance Officer for NMAC, explores NMAC’s work, future plans, and how it has linked mine action to development and recovery in North Sudan.
Hero Profile: Aki Ra, Cisr Journal
Hero Profile: Aki Ra, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The Khmer Rouge made Aki Ra a soldier when he was still a child. Now, close to 30 years later, he can be found working tirelessly to remove landmines and unexploded ordnance in Siem Reap, Cambodia—some planted by his own hands. As a result of his work, the Cambodia Landmine Relief Museum Facility houses thousands of detonated landmines and UXO, and provides a home for orphaned landmine victims. Aki Ra has received international recognition for his humanitarian efforts, including his recent selection as a Top 10 candidate for the CNN Hero of the Year award.
The Growing Threat To Humanitarian Operations, Adrian King
The Growing Threat To Humanitarian Operations, Adrian King
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Deminers and other humanitarian-aid workers around the world, though previously viewed as off-limits, have become targets of distrust and even violence by certain groups. This article explores the reasons for this shift in ideology, and what action humanitarian organizations must take in order to protect their personnel.
Falkland Islands Demining Pilot Project: Completion Of Phase 1, Robin Swanson
Falkland Islands Demining Pilot Project: Completion Of Phase 1, Robin Swanson
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The United Kingdom has started to remove anti-personnel mines from the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in order to meet its obligations under Article 5 of the Ottawa Convention. A pilot phase was completed in June 2010 to clear four suspected hazardous areas—a critical first step to inform future projects following the conclusion of the Joint U.K.-Argentine Feasibility Study.
Strengthening The Demining Sector Response To Hiv/Aids In Sub-Saharan Africa, Martin Chitsama
Strengthening The Demining Sector Response To Hiv/Aids In Sub-Saharan Africa, Martin Chitsama
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In this article, the author explores how HIV/AIDS affects deminers in the African areas where the disease is most prevalent. He considers how deminers’ lifestyles make them especially susceptible to HIV/AIDS and suggests mobile HIV/AIDS programs can effectively combat this growing threat.
Economic Reintegration And Rehabilitation Of Nepalese Landmine/Ied Victims, Purna Shova Chitraker
Economic Reintegration And Rehabilitation Of Nepalese Landmine/Ied Victims, Purna Shova Chitraker
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
This article examines the effectiveness of a victim-assistance program in Nepal conducted by Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL). In the program’s two phases, the organization helped rehabilitate 67 victims of landmines and improvised explosive devices and reintegrate them into society. The report details the NCBL’s program goals, activities and outcomes, and addresses the challenges and future aspirations of victim assistance in Nepal.
In Remembrance: Stephen “Darby” Allan, Cisr Journal
In Remembrance: Stephen “Darby” Allan, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Stephen “Darby” Allan, a Technical Field Manager with Mines Advisory Group, died on 15 October 2010, following an explosion in which he was critically injured. The explosion took place around noon as Darby was doing mine-clearance work at a site near Kapoeta, in southern Sudan. He died a few hours later. Darby is survived by his wife Karen and his children, Sarah and David.
The Effect Of Reinforcement Rate Variations On Hits And False Alarms In Remote Explosive Scent Tracing With Dogs, Rebecca Sargisson, Ian Mclean
The Effect Of Reinforcement Rate Variations On Hits And False Alarms In Remote Explosive Scent Tracing With Dogs, Rebecca Sargisson, Ian Mclean
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Detection animals offer untapped potential in terms of locating landmines and explosive ordnance in the field and in the laboratory. In this study, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining investigated the effect of low, medium, and high levels of reward on the performance of six dogs searching filters for explosive odor.
The Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System For The Assessment Of Mine-Suspected Areas, Milan Bajic
The Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System For The Assessment Of Mine-Suspected Areas, Milan Bajic
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Several research and development projects have been created to utilize airborne and spaceborne remote sensing for mine action, but the Advanced Intelligence Decision Support System is the first mine-action technology to successfully combine remote sensing with advanced intelligence methodology. The result is a rigorously operationally validated system that improves hazardous risk assessment for greater efficiency in land cancellation and release. This article discusses the components of the AI DSS system and its achievements in mine action.
Itep Evaluation Of Metal Detectors And Dual-Sensor Detectors, Kazunori Takahashi, Dieter Gulle
Itep Evaluation Of Metal Detectors And Dual-Sensor Detectors, Kazunori Takahashi, Dieter Gulle
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Since its development in the early 1970s, scientists from an array of disciplines have found reason to utilize ground-penetrating radar to create radar images of the subsurface. The following article examines how GPR use in combination with standard metal detectors could aid workers in the field of demining.