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Effectiveness Of Gis In Mine Action, Hansie Heymans, Arie Claassens 2015 Geometric Solutions Ltd

Effectiveness Of Gis In Mine Action, Hansie Heymans, Arie Claassens

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

According to a survey conducted by Geometric Solutions, Ltd., the usage of a geographic information system (GIS) stands to benefit the mine action community within the context of strategic planning and operational decision-making. Furthermore, web-based GIS can provide mobile spatial data for operations and lead to an overall improvement of mine action operations.


Roots Of Peace: Cluster Munitions To Crops, Tucker Kuhn, Heidi Kuhn 2015 Roots of Peace

Roots Of Peace: Cluster Munitions To Crops, Tucker Kuhn, Heidi Kuhn

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

By facilitating the removal of explosive remnants of war in rural Vietnam, Roots of Peace (ROP) aims to restore contaminated farmland to a safe, productive state. ROP encourages economic empowerment by training farmers in the production of cash crops, such as black pepper and taro.


Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray 2015 Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)

Collaborative Ordnance Data Repository (Cord), Dionysia Kontotasiou, Olivier Cottray

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Until recently, the mine action and broader humanitarian disarmament community have relied on ORDATA for ordnance information. However, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, James Madison University and software-development company Ripple Design developed a novel aid to using ORDATA: the Collaborative ORDnance data repository (CORD). Representing a significant update to the data set, CORD is an ordnance-identification system featuring Web 2.0 concepts that allow individual users to contribute updates to the data.


Landmines In Croatia Pose Threat To Incoming Refugees, News Brief 2015 Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at JMU (CISR)

Landmines In Croatia Pose Threat To Incoming Refugees, News Brief

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

After Hungary formally closed its border with Serbia on 15 September 2015, refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East, Central Asia and Northern Africa have turned next to Croatia as a gateway to reach countries such as Sweden and Germany. The influx of refugees traversing the areas near the Croatia-Serbia border has raised concerns that refugees will encounter residual landmine contamination in Croatia as they make their way to Slovenia and Hungary. The contamination dates back to the four-year conflict which followed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995. The Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC) estimates that …


The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 19.3 (2015), CISR JOURNAL 2015 Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at JMU (CISR)

The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 19.3 (2015), Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Focus: The Middle East | Feature: Victim Assistance | Special Report | Notes from the Field | Research and Development


The Economic Impact Of Lifting Sanctions On Iran: How The Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action Will Affect The Economy Of Iran, Ryan Foley 2015 College of the Holy Cross

The Economic Impact Of Lifting Sanctions On Iran: How The Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action Will Affect The Economy Of Iran, Ryan Foley

Washington Semester Program

During the second term of the Obama Administration, the United States and the European Union negotiated a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding their nuclear program. These negotiations encompassed the relaxing of sanctions on the Iranian economy in exchange for concessions on the part of their nuclear program. This thesis investigates how the deal will affect the economy of Iran and the international oil market, two entities which are deeply intertwined. The findings suggest that the opening of Iran’s economy will almost certainly lead to a strengthening of their domestic economy in the short-term, but that the government …


Providing Integrated Peer-Support Assistance To Landmine Survivors, Amir Mujanovic 2015 Landmine Survivors Initiatives

Providing Integrated Peer-Support Assistance To Landmine Survivors, Amir Mujanovic

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Landmine Survivors Initiatives implemented a three-pronged, peer-support assistance system to meet landmine survivors’ needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This practice is the combination of an approach and methodology to provide integrated assistance to landmine survivors.


14th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2015), APMBC 2015 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

14th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2015), Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

The Fourteenth Meeting of the States Parties (14MSP) was a formal meeting of the 162 States Parties to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. It was held in accordance with Article 11 of the Convention and pursuant to the decision of the Convention’s 2014 Third Review Conference. At the Third Review Conference, it was agreed that the 14MSP would take place in Geneva during the week of 30 November to 4 December 2015. The Conference further agreed to designate H.E. Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe of Belgium, …


Commentary And Reply, USAWC Parameters 2015 US Army War College

Commentary And Reply, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Winter 2015 Index, USAWC Press 2015 US Army War College

Winter 2015 Index, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, USAWC Press 2015 US Army War College

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Will Army 2025 Be A Military Profession?, Don M. Snider 2015 US Army War College

Will Army 2025 Be A Military Profession?, Don M. Snider

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


The Utility Of Nuclear Weapons Today: Two Views, José de Arimatéia da Cruz 2015 US Army War College

The Utility Of Nuclear Weapons Today: Two Views, José De Arimatéia Da Cruz

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Nonproliferation: Rapid Retreat From The Gold Standard Negatively Impacts Future Nuclear Negotiations, Evan Tyler Beese 2015 Missouri State University

Nonproliferation: Rapid Retreat From The Gold Standard Negatively Impacts Future Nuclear Negotiations, Evan Tyler Beese

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

In 2009, the United States and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) concluded a nuclear cooperation agreement which contained a commitment on the part of the U.A.E. not to enrich uranium through its own domestic programs. Dubbed the "Gold Standard” of nuclear nonproliferation by the Obama administration, such an accomplishment has not been repeated in nuclear agreements between 2009 and 2015. This paper examines American nuclear cooperation negotiations following the establishment of the "Gold Standard,” and argues that the rapid reversal of American negotiating policy toward enrichment and reprocessing technologies will hinder U.S. nonproliferation goals going forward.


Isis Propaganda And United States Countermeasures, Daniel Lincoln Stevens 2015 Missouri State University

Isis Propaganda And United States Countermeasures, Daniel Lincoln Stevens

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

The purpose of this study is threefold: 1. Examine the use of propaganda by the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and how its propaganda enables ISIS to achieve its objectives; 2. Examine the United States Government (USG) response; 3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the USG response and how it can be improved. The goal of ISIS is to overturn the Middle East, attack westerners in the region and in the West, and create one all-encompassing Islamic State. ISIS' innovative use of propaganda has been central to its success. ISIS uses propaganda more effectively than previous terrorist groups. …


Reversing The Tao: A Framework For Credible Space Deterrence, Christopher Michael Stone 2015 Missouri State University

Reversing The Tao: A Framework For Credible Space Deterrence, Christopher Michael Stone

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This thesis was written to provide the reader with a firm understanding of the realities of the current DoD space deterrence concept, its shortcomings and the threat that these shortcomings pose to the United States and its Allies if a more realistic, credible space deterrence concept is not created and deployed. To highlight these shortcomings, a review of deterrence theory from classical to modern writers were explored to compare and contrast with the DoD's present concept to highlight its lack of deterrence theory. In addition, it was highlighted through an analysis of the Chinese view of deterrence in space, space …


Rethinking America's Grand Strategy: Insights From The Cold War, Hal Brands 2015 US Army War College

Rethinking America's Grand Strategy: Insights From The Cold War, Hal Brands

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Landpower And American Credibility, Michael Allen Hunzeker, Alexander Lanoszka 2015 US Army War College

Landpower And American Credibility, Michael Allen Hunzeker, Alexander Lanoszka

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


To Win Wars, Correct The Army's Political Blind Spot, Joseph Roger Clark 2015 US Army War College

To Win Wars, Correct The Army's Political Blind Spot, Joseph Roger Clark

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


America's All Volunteer Force: A Success?, Louis G. Yuengert 2015 US Army War College

America's All Volunteer Force: A Success?, Louis G. Yuengert

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


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