CISR News

To Walk the Earth in Safety

New report showcases U.S. global leadership in landmine clearance and conventional weapons destruction

CALL FOR PAPERS: Demining in dense terrain

In the dense, forested areas of the Balkans, Ukraine and Colombia, movement continues to be restricted

CALL FOR PAPERS: Balkans

Organizations working in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro are encouraged to submit on their current programs, challenges and successes

2 children killed by landmine blast in Yemen's Hodeidah city

The Houthi-laid landmines and IEDs continue to pose a real threat to the civilians

Explosive ordnance in the Baltic Sea: New tools for decision makers

The Journal of CWD

Remnants of war

Smart maps help teams locate and remove land mines

Returned IDPs demand landmines be removed from Nam San Yang, Myanmar

More than 500 people from nearly 100 families have been living as resettled IDPs in Nam San Yang for nearly 14 months

JMU Giving Day postponed

Thank you for your continued commitment to CISR

A real-time, video-streaming system for monitoring demining

The Journal of CWD

Children and dogs work together to free the world of landmines

Clearing the way

Civilians killed, wounded by landmines in Southern Myanmar

The landmine was planted in a road

Improving the prioritization process of UXO Lao

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The development of a humanitarian IED clearance capacity in Afghanistan

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Questions and answers on the new US landmine policy

Will the US re-start production of antipersonnel mines?

Community-Based Inclusive Development: Integrating survivors into a broader victim assistance system

The Journal of CWD

Cluster Munition Remnants Survey in Southeast Asia

The Journal of CWD

Game-based learning: An innovative and scalable approach to mine risk education

The Journal of CWD

The United States pledges $3 million for humanitarian mine action during Prince Harry’s visit to Angola

U.S. support enabled The HALO Trust to locate and destroy landmines in Huambo province

Landmines and the civil war, a precursor to modern weapons of destruction

In his newest book, "America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War," former CISR Director Dr. Ken Rutherford unearths the history of landmines

WRTC major thriving in her internship

JMU student Jess Nickels is gaining skills in her CISR internship that will be key to her future in professional editing

Evolution of UAVs employed by Houthi forces in Yemen

Investigating the supply and development of unmanned aerial vehicles in the Yemen conflict

Augmented and virtual reality for humanitarian mine action EOD training

The Journal of CWD

CALL FOR PAPERS: Robotics and remote sensing

The Journal encourages submissions on the latest technological advances

Landmines: America's secret weapon in Vietnam

The M18 Claymore mine is one of the best known of the Vietnam era

A twenty-minute walk through Fallujah: Using virtual reality to raise awareness about IEDs in Iraq

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The reverberating effects of explosive violence on agriculture in Iraq

The number of mines contaminating Iraq is estimated at 25 million

Libya’s cities left ‘re-contaminated’ by months of fighting, warn landmine clearance experts

Libya has the world’s largest uncontrolled ammunitions stockpile

First-ever official database on persons with disabilities and unexploded ordnance survivors in Quang Binh and Binh Dinh provinces launched

The number of male UXO survivors doubled the number of the female

Humanitarian mine action in the gray zone

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How landmines made this Sri Lankan lagoon an avian paradise

But once it’s demined, it may be developed. Can one man’s ecotourism plan protect it for the birds?

23rd International Meeting of National Mine Action Programme Directors and United Nations Advisers

NDM-UN is the annual meeting where mine action stakeholders meet to discuss emerging issues

CALL FOR PAPERS > Humanitarian mine action training centers/sites: Best practices and standards

The Journal is seeking articles from training sites about their most successful programs and practices

The Winter 2020 issue of The Journal of CWD is LIVE!

The Journal is a collaborative endeavor, helping us to connect global practitioners to ideas and dialogue in the ever-evolving field of humanitarian mine action

Unexploded World War II bomb found in central London prompts evacuations

Thousands of people were told to leave work

Myanmar begins talk on landmine-clearing program

The meeting was held last week in Nay Pyi Taw, and the discussions are still at the preliminary stage

Long after wars are settled, land mines continue to take lives

Those who die from forgotten mines tend to be animals, children or farmers in distant lands

Trump administration expected to loosen restrictions on use of landmines

Decision is the result of a Pentagon review

Why it may take decades to free north Uganda of landmines

Over the years, UXO have claimed many lives and crippled others in northern Uganda

CALL FOR PAPERS: Low-order EOD techniques/sustainable methods of destruction

Programs operating with low-order EOD techniques are encouraged to submit Journal articles

Toying with death

Pakistan remains one of thirty-three countries to not have signed the Mine Ban Treaty

CALL FOR PAPERS: Physical security and stockpile management

Journal articles focusing on ammunition management/storage are encouraged

EU provided assistance to 350 landmine victims and family members in Bosnia-Herzegovina

The project, worth 403,000 euros, represents the continuation of support to improve the lives of the most vulnerable

Landmines blamed for nine injured in two Myanmar townships

In the explosion’s aftermath, finger-pointing began

Landmines recovered from Pakistan's Bajaur college

The devices were planted at two different places on the grounds of the institution

Killer landmines a sad legacy of past Angola conflicts

Authorities have disclosed plans to tackle 30 suspected landmine zones in Lunda Sul this year

Making land safe for communities in Bosnia

Despite two decades having passed since the war, many villagers have been unable to return to their homeland due to landmine contamination

'Luckily it didn't explode'

Guam man finds war grenade, brings it in a rag to mayor

Yemen: Wartime abuses face global spotlight

Houthi forces have used banned antipersonnel landmines and fired artillery indiscriminately into cities, killing and wounding civilians

CALL FOR PAPERS: Africa

The Journal of CWD seeks submissions on organizations’ programs in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Senegal and Zimbabwe

Digging up an unexploded cluster bomb while preparing house foundation, landowner reports shocking discovery

The device was a BLU63 bomblet

Vero Beach man digs up land mine on beach

Patrick AFB bomb experts called to remove it

Remove all IEDs, landmines along the border

Border Guard Bangladesh asks Myanmar Police Force

Landmine survivors feel the pinch of sanctions

The Norwegian Refugee Council said in August that it had spent an entire year trying to find a bank that would be willing to conduct trade but to no avail

Four children killed in landmine blast in Myanmar’s Rakhine

The casualties, aged between eight and 10-years old, were walking on a hill to gather firewood

Five killed in Angola landmine blast

The wounded were rushed to the provincial hospital 90 miles from the explosion

Change in leadership at CISR

Associate Director Dr. Suzanne Fiederlein will become the interim director of CISR

The UK charity bringing life back to Iraq's landmine hotspots

One of MAG's photographers has spent the last 20 years documenting the charity’s work

Treading lightly in Shan State

The civilian casualties of Myanmar’s landmines

The impacts of explosive violence on healthcare infrastructure in Syria

Attacks on ambulances have been designed to be particularly violent and explosive

Yazidi women clear ISIS bombs

The women and their colleagues work long hours in dangerous conditions

Into the Fire

The documentary short is presented by National Geographic Documentary Films in association with the Nobel Prize

CALL FOR PAPERS: Robotics and Remote Sensing

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction encourages submissions on the latest technological advances

Over 160 nations agree to speed landmine clearing

Under the Oslo Action Plan, adopted Friday, states undertake to "identify mined areas and put in place national plans for mine clearance"

Myanmar still using landmines, global casualties 'exceptionally high': report

A surge in landmine use is also fuelling a migrant exodus in some areas

WW2 bomb defused in Turin after thousands evacuate

The British bomb contained 65kg (140lbs) of dynamite

The Oslo Review Conference on a Mine-Free World

#OsloRevCon will focus on the future for the Mine Ban Convention

Brave women who clear war-torn Donbas of landmines

The deminers make about $500 a month, which is decent money in poverty-stricken Donbas

German children fish WW2 ammunition from pond with magnet

Germany was littered with explosives after the war because of the intensive air raids

Climate change may be blowing up arms depots

More intense heat waves can destabilize the components of munitions, particularly where explosives are not properly stored

This Little Land of Mines

There's something you need to know about Laos

Researchers create new strains of bacteria to find landmines

Scientists involved in a DARPA project are now engineering bacteria genetically to create new strains that could be used to detect landmines

Losing his legs to a landmine changed professor’s life

After sharing Nobel Prize, Ken Rutherford wrote a history of Civil War explosive devices

Landmines pose serious humanitarian threat to Yemenis

On a daily basis, civilian casualties occur in several areas of Yemen as a result of Houthi-laid landmines

Explosive weapons and their impact on pets and pet-owners

The interdependent nature of relationships between humans and pets, often leaves both animals and people vulnerable when explosive violence separates them

Cross-border arms trafficking stokes the embers of northern Kenya’s conflict

For the criminal arms economy to stop, deep-rooted underlying problems need to be addressed

Namibia continues to be plagued by post-war unexploded ordnance

The government will continue to roll out educational campaigns on UXO

Drone and rover tag teams could help solve the world’s deadly land mine problem

Right now, the project is still in the research and development stages

Landmines continue to kill people in Zimbabwe

“I have lost many cattle since I started working as a cattle herder in this area in 2005”

The growing use of victim-operated IEDs by anti-government elements is increasingly harming Afghan civilians

On Saturday, 19 civilians—mainly children—were killed and injured in Afghanistan

The 7th Mine Action Technology Workshop

Robotics and remote sensing in mine action

Spike in landmine casualties as conflicts persists in Myanmar

Up to September this year, 42 people were killed

Fellowship application deadline approaching

College seniors, graduate students and recent grads may apply now for the Frasure-Kruzel-Drew Memorial Fellowship

Practical notes on the application of thermite systems in mine action

The Journal of CWD

Scores of Houthi-laid landmines defused in Yemen's Hodeidah

Around 55 landmines were defused from a number of farms and roads

The differing effects of explosive weapons on boys and girls examined

the report found that all studies on children and blast injuries showed the leading gender of victims to be male

The world’s landmine stockpiles in numbers

The report identifies 11 countries that retain the capability to produce landmines

Key performance indicators and humanitarian mine action: Time to standardize?

The Journal of CWD

'Whistles, warnings, kaboom!': A day with a landmine clearance team

Aki Ra was a child soldier, laying mines around Siem Reap; now he is using his expertise to clear land in rural Cambodia and make it safe again

2019 Clearing the Path Gala to honor outstanding leaders

Survivors’ Assistance Award: Selma Gušo, Bosnia Herzegovina

How destroying excess weapons in Niger weakens terrorists in the Sahel and Sahara

Nigerien soldiers use the hydraulic shear donated by the United States to cut decommissioned weapons

More bang for their buck: Enhancing the sustainability of surplus ammunition destruction programs

The Journal of CWD

Ruth Davidson helps break boundaries with school landmine workshop

Around 200 pupils from Year Six took part in a demonstration of landmine clearances with a dummy minefield created on the school grounds in Edinburgh, Scotland

Meet the Afghan women taking their country back—one land mine at a time

In Bamiyan, an all-female demining team provides jobs and hope

MAG teams up with Facebook to reduce casualties from ISIS mines in Iraq

Many landmine victims in the region are young boys

UK matches Zimbabwe landmine fund after Prince Harry tour

Prince Harry: "Landmines are an unhealed scar of war"

Managers gather for JMU course in global mine removal

Since 2004, 300 senior managers from all over the world have attended

Search and destroy: WPI students build a robotic system to find and safely detonate landmines

Student teams are developing an autonomous rover and payload-deploying drone to find and safely destroy hidden munitions that kill or maim as many as 20,000 people around the world each year

Trapped in the middle of a minefield in Iraq

Iraq is one of the world’s most landmine-affected countries

Prince Harry retraces Diana's footsteps through Angola minefield

Harry stressed the importance of international cooperation in the area

Global Gallop to help victims of landmines and explosive accidents

The funds raised will be used in countries such as Yemen and Afghanistan

Landmines planted by Houthis add to suffering of Yemeni civilians

Houthis have also used naval mines in fishing farms and areas

Second Rohingya killed in suspected landmine blast near Bangladesh border

Officials said the victim was Abdul Majid, a refugee in his 20s from Kutupalong, the world's largest refugee camp

Over two kilometers cleared of landmines in Angola

Demining is important for province development and promoting agriculture

Pressured by U.S., Colombians uproot coca plants, wary of landmines

So far this year, nine soldiers and civilians involved in coca eradication have been killed—mostly mutilated by landmine explosions

Israeli company could clear world’s minefields in just 10 years

Israel’s 4M Analytics has a minefield-location intelligence solution using machine learning, historic and dynamic datasets and software-guided robots

Ammunition stockpile management: A global challenge requiring global responses

The Journal of CWD

Wartime landmines still taking lives in Bosnia

Since 1996, a total of 55 Bosnian deminers and 673 civilians have been killed by exploding ordnance

Iraq: A photo essay

The Journal of CWD

CISR to address global landmine crisis with grant from U.S. Department of State

The course will focus on the management of conventional weapons destruction programs

Prince Harry will honor Princess Diana's humanitarian legacy on a "particularly significant" visit to Angola

The Duke of Sussex will follow in his late mother's footsteps on his upcoming trip to the country

Kabul attack claims life of iMMAP colleague

The attack claimed the lives of 16 people and injured 100 others, most of them Afghan civilians

EOD technician killed following explosion

Brandon Pinson was supervising one of FSD’s 12 teams in Iraq clearing IEDs left behind by the Islamic State

The impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war on food security: The Lebanese case

The Journal of CWD

Ninth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Due to lack of funds, the meeting was shortened to two days with translation in all six official languages

Barriers to peace: The deadly legacy of landmines and other weapons in post-conflict societies

JMU International Week

Establishment of the Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Advisory Group

Launched in May 2019, the group aims to raise the global profile of EORE

Landmines fuel migrant exodus in Myanmar’s north

‘Our villages are emptying. There are only babies and old people left.’

Hundreds of thousands of landmines remain from Korean War but serve no purpose

The U.S. and South Korea have not signed the Ottawa Treaty, citing the danger of a North Korean attack

Climbers in Dolomites injured after picking up First World War explosives

The Dolomites were the scene of high-level fighting in WWI

Drones in the desert: Augmenting HMA and socioeconomic activities in Chad

The Journal of CWD

Governmental and nongovernmental UXO stakeholders from Vietnam, Lao and Cambodia gather in Quang Tri province for Regional Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey Workshop

Quang Tri is one of the provinces with the heaviest contamination from cluster munitions and other UXO

Kyrgyzstan hosts 11th annual OSCE regional workshop on countering improvised explosive devices

Explosive hazards reduction and response: Countering improvised explosive devices

IEDs and urban clearance variables in Mosul: Defining complex environments

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Collaborative demining training in Cambodia

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Angola’s path forward for security and economic development

Weapons management and humanitarian demining

Stemming the flow of weapons to conflict areas in Africa’s Great Lakes region

Marking, tracing and training

U.S. helps peacekeepers avoid deadly explosive hazards through the Global Peace Operations Initiative

Effort to reduce peacekeeper casualties is improved preparation and training on counter-IED threat mitigation, explosive ordnance disposal, and conventional munitions disposal

IED threat consistency and predictability in Fallujah: A 'simple' model for clearance

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Worst month for Afghan civilians in over eight years of casualty recording

Of the civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan last month by explosive weapons, 89% were from IEDs

Breaking the vicious cycle of landmines and instability in Myanmar

Mines are regularly used by ethnic armies in rural ambushes and also for the defense of pockets of rebel-controlled territory in the countryside

Thailand starts destroying thousands of landmines

A total of 3,133 anti-personnel mines will be destroyed between Aug 6–10

The challenge of managing mine action in Jordan

The Journal of CWD

Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan