Measuring Explosive Munitions Use with Open-Source Data:
A New Tool for Enhancing Humanitarian Mine Action
CISR Journal
This article is brought to you by the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR) from issue 25.1 of The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction available on the JMU Scholarly Commons and Issuu.com.
By Jonathan Robinson [ Humanitarian Researcher ] and Christoph Baade [ United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ]
Since 2011, there has been widespread use of explosive weapons—including conventional weapons, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and landmines—by all sides in the Syrian conflict. As is known from other contexts, a proportion of these either fail to detonate, becoming unexploded ordnance (UXO), or are abandoned by combatants to become abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO). Long after conflicts have ended, these explosive remnants of war (ERW) endure as multi-generational threats to a community’s population and future development...
