The Global Conventional Weapons Destruction (CWD) Repository was established by the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at James Madison University in 2018 to serve as the central information archives for the global humanitarian mine action (HMA) and physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) communities. This repository includes the entirety of The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, which is also available as a stand-alone repository here. We welcome submissions from all individuals and organizations who have research, studies or documentation related to the policy, implementation, or monitoring of HMA and PSSM activities.
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Submissions from 2021
To Walk the Earth in Safety 20th Edition (CY2020), US DOS PM/WRA
Unexplored Opportunities: Multi-Sector Strategies for Collaboration in Underwater Unexploded Ordnance Remediation, Chris Price
Submissions from 2020
A Guide to the Oslo Action Plan and Provisional Results of 2020 Monitoring: Survey and Clearance, Mine Action Review
A New Approach to Understanding, Achieving, and Demonstrating IMAS Compliance, David Hewitson
A Persistent Danger: Unexploded Ordnance in Populated Areas, NPA, Mines Advisory Group, and Humanity and Inclusion
AP Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee on Cooperative Compliance, APMBC
AP Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee on Victim Assistance Observations, APMBC
AP Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Full Program, APMBC
AP Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements on Matters Compliance, APMBC
A Real-Time Video-Streaming System for Monitoring Demining, Mohammed al-Husseini Ph.D., Masoud Alipour Ph.D., Hassan Ghaziri Ph.D., and Ali El-Hajj Ph.D.
Assessing Ukraine's Victim Assistance Capacities, Kateryna Mashchenko, Tetiana Shymanchuk, Oleh Stoiev, and Nick Vovk
A Twenty-Minute Walk Through Fallujah: Using Virtual Reality to Raise Awareness about IEDs in Iraq, Sandra Bialystok
Augmented and Virtual Reality for HMA EOD Training, Allen Dodgson Tan
Automated UAS Aeromagnetic Surveys to Detect MBRL Unexploded Ordnance, Alex Nikulin, Ph.D.; Timothy deSmet, Ph.D.; Andrii Puliaiev; Vasyl Zhurakhov; Sofia Fasullo; Gabriel Chen; Isaac Spiegel; and Kaylee Cappuccio
Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2020, Mine Action Review
Clearing the Mines 2020: A Report by Mine Action Review for the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Mine Action Review
Cluster Munition Remnant Survey in Southeast Asia, Kimberly McCosker, Jan Erik Stoa, and Katherine Harrison
Community-Based Inclusive Development: Integrating Survivors into a Broader Victim Assistance System, Bernard Franck, Donna Koolmees, and Sarah French
Confidence-Building Through Mine Action on the Korean Peninsula, Guy Rhodes, Ph.D.
Death Sentence to Civilians: The Long-Term Impact of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas in Yemen, HI
Detonating the Media: Raising the Profile of Mine Action, Paul McCann
Developing a Sustainable National Training Capacity: Non-Technical Survey Training in Colombia, Marc Bonnet, Helen Gray, and Giulia Matassa
Disposal of Explosive Ordnance and Environmental Risk Mitigation, Roly Evans and Andy Duncan
Explosive Ordnance in the Baltic Sea: New Tools for Decision Makers, Torsten Frey, Jacek Beldowski, and Edmund Maser
Explosive Ordnance Victims and Risk Education: Lessons Learned from Colombia 2012-2019, Salomé Valencia, Angela Desantis, Matt Wilson, Sebastián Tovar Jaramillo, Angela Patricia Cortés Sánchez, and Ana Jaquelin Jaimes Alfonso
Game-Based Learning: An Innovative and Scalable Approach to Mine Risk Education, Ta Thi Hai Yen
Gender and Diversity Annual Report 2019, GICHD
Geneva International Centre for International Demining Annual Report 2019, GICHD
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Badger, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Bearcat, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: HSTAMIDS, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Improved Backhoe, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Light Soil Sifter, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Long Handle Tools, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Medium Minewolf, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Mine Clearing Loader, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Minehound, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Mini Minewolf, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Multi-Tool Attachments, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Multi-Tool Excavator, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Orbit Screen, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Rebel Crusher, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: REX, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Scorpion, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Target Reaquisition and Positioning System (TRPS), U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Terrapin, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: The Severe Terrain Off-Road Menzi Muck (STORM), U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HD R&D Field Evaluation: Traxx, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research and Development
HMA in the Gray Zone, Lt. Col. Shawn Kadlec
Improving the Prioritization Process of UXO Lao, Hayashi Ontoku Akihito
Iraq Programme Report 2020, UNMAS
Landmine Monitor 2020, ICBL-CMC
Landmines in America's Backyard, Ken Rutherford Ph.D.
Long-Term Risk Management Tools for Protocols for Residual Explosive Ordnance Mitigation: A Pretest in Vietnam, Katrin Stauffer and Christelle Mestre
Measuring Behavior Change Resulting from EORE and the Need for Complementary Risk Reduction Activities, Helaine Boyd, Sebastian Kasack, and Noe Falk Nielsen
Mechanical Improvised Explosive Device Removal in the Urban Environment, David Parry
Mine Action 2020: Book of Papers, Centre for Testing, Development and Training Development and Training
Mine Action in the Time of COVID-19: A Donor's Perspective, Wolfgang Bindseil and Ian Mansfield
On-the-Ground Information Management Tools in Northeast Syria, Suleiman Nyamwaya and Joel Ndegwa
Operationalized Management Information Systems in Iraq's DMA, Mark Steyn and Arie Claassens
Palestine Programme EORE Portfolion 2019-2020, UNMAS
Patterns of Participation in Multilateral Disarmament Forums, NPA
Proof: How Small Drones Can Find Buried Landmines in the Desert Using Airborne IR Thermography, John Fardoulis, Xavier Depreytere, Pierre Gallien, Kheria Djouhri, Ba Abdourhmane, and Emmanuel Sauvage
Providing IMAS Training to Local Military Forces and Mitigating Long-Term ERW Risks in Vietnam, Allan R. Vosburgh
Review of New Technologies and Methodologies for EORE in Challenging Contexts, GICHD
Seventh Mine Action Technology Workshop: A Space for Innovation, Arsen Khanyan and Inna Cruz
Solidarity in Action: Norwegian People's Aid Annual Report 2019, NPA
Standardising Beneficiary Definitions in Humanitarian Mine Action (2nd Ed.), DanChurchAid, Danish Demining Group, The HALO Trust, Humanity and Inclusion, Mines Advisory Group, Norwegian People's Aid, and Swiss Foundation for Demining
Strengthening a Sustainable National Capacity for Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming in Mine Action, Laura Biscaglia, Ros Sophal, and Khun Sochenda
The Development of a Humanitarian IED Clearance Capacity in Afghanistan, Alexander Tan
The Effects of Ageing on Colombian 'Shoe Polish' Mines, Colin King
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 23.3 (2020), CISR JOURNAL
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, Issue 24.2 (2020), CISR JMU
The Lethality Index: Re-Conceptualizing IED Clearance Planning and Delivery in Iraq, Mark Wilkinson
The Mine Free Sarajevo Project, Marija Trlin, Elise Becker, and Nataša Uršič
The Socioeconomic Impact of Employing Female Deminers in Sri Lanka, GICHD
Time to Stem Lightweight Approaches and Focus on Real Minefield Data?, John Fardoulis and Xavier Depreytere
To Walk the Earth in Safety 19th Edition (CY2019), US DOS PM/WRA
To What Extent Could the Development of an Airborne Thermal Imaging Detection System Contribute to Enhance Detection?, Martin Jebens; Hideyuki Sawada, Ph.D.; Junjie Shen; and Erik Tollefsen
Understanding the Logic of Rebel Restraint on Landmine Use, Henrique Garbino
UNMAS Annual Report 2020, UNMAS
Whither HMA Policy: Linking HMA and Development Assistance, Lewis Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Submissions from 2019
Accidents and Field Medical Provision, Andy Smith
Achievements and New Challenges in Mine Action, Stefano Toscano
A Guide to Developing National Standards for Ammunition Management, GICHD and Small Arms Survey
A Guide to Non-Technical Survey, GICHD
Ammunition Stockpile Management: A Global Challenge Requiring Global Responses, Nora Allgaier and Samuel Paunila
APOPO Annual Report 2019, APOPO
Assistance in Mine Action: Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2019, UN