Abstract
On December 3, 1997, over 100 countries convened in Ottawa, Canada to sign an historic landmine-ban treaty. The event marked the end of a six-year campaign by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines to end the scourge of these deadly antipersonnel weapons. Simultaneously, the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), a non-government organization (NGO), launched a program called Adopt-A-Minefield. Through this program, civic groups, corporations, and other organizations "adopt" a mine-strewn area pre-selected by the United Nations for demining. These private and public groups raise funds to clear their adopted minefields in order to return the land to productive use. This new program freely borrows its methodology from the successful "adopt-a-highway" and "sister cities" programs.
Recommended Citation
Velez, Melanie and Rigler, Bill
(1998)
"Anatomy of a Program: UNA-USA Takes on Landmines,"
Journal of Mine Action
: Vol. 2
:
Iss.
2
, Article 9.
Available at:
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol2/iss2/9
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