The Global Landmine Crisis
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 132
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The Global Landmine Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStepping Into a Minefield
Author: Ian Mansfield
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781925275520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIan Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. With millions of refugees expected to return to Afghanistan, the United Nations saw a humanitarian crisis looming and requested help from Western countries to tackle the landmine problem. In September 1991, Ian, along with his wife and two young children, left Australia on a one-year assignment ... and didn't return home for 20 years. This highly personal account recalls Ian's pioneering efforts to set up a civilian program in Afghanistan to clear landmines for humanitarian purposes, and then his decision to leave the Australian Army and join the United Nations. He continued to work in the mine-action sector, setting up programs in Laos and Bosnia, and then working at the policy level at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Stepping into a Minefield highlights the dangers and the tragedies involved in landmine clearance, but also reveals the great humanity, dedication and humor of the thousands of brave men and women clearing landmines today. It also outlines the political, cultural and security 'minefields' that Ian had to navigate along the way, which were often more difficult to deal with than the real minefields.
Landmines
Author: Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781564321138
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Landmines in Mozambique
Author: Arms Project (Human Rights Watch)
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 140
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Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-04-21
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0309073499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.
Landmines and Human Security
Author: Richard A. Matthew
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0791483991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn impressive array of activists, scholars, government officials, journalists, and landmine victims themselves are gathered here to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Organized in the early 1990s, the ICBL is a network of more than one thousand nongovernmental organizations worldwide, working for a global ban on landmines. It was an important force behind the treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines that was signed in Ottawa in 1997, and which led to its being awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, along with its coordinator.
The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines
Author: Louis Maresca
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Published: 2000-11-16
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780521783170
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After the Guns Fall Silent
Author: Shawn Roberts
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780855983376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYears after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee movement and resettlement and on the environment. It also investigates mine clearance and mine awareness and medical, rehabilitative and psychological costs. Using original research, the report uses case studies from countries including Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Scholarly and accurate analysis combines with people's own words and real personal stories to present a detailed evaluation of the effect of this most potent of weapons. This work is published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and distributed in the UK and Ireland by Oxfam.
