Mine Action Support for Armed Violence Reduction: Mission Creep or Responding to Wider Security Needs? Policy brief

Authors

GICHD, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)

Document Type

Article

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Publication Date

11-2012

Keywords

Conventional Weapons Stockpile Destruction, Small Arms and Light Weapons, SA/LW, Armed Violence, GICHD, Afghanistan, Albania, Burundi, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Guatemala, Liberia, Libya, Somaliland, Uganda

Abstract

he policy brief summarises the findings of GICHD study into the role of mine action organisations in reducing armed violence.

The 12 case studies profile the AVR-related programmes of different organisations.

Download policy brief and case studies in English, with some versions in French and Spanish

Albania Mine and Munitions Coordination Office's and DanChurchAid's UXO hotspot clearance project in Albania

Action On Armed Violence's post-conflict rehabilitation and reintegration programme in Liberia

DanChurchAid’s SALW awareness raising project in Burundi

Danish Demining Group’s Community Safety Programmes in Somaliland and Uganda

HALO Trust’s reintegration of former combatants into demining in Afghanistan

Handicap International’s SALW risk awareness project in Libya

Mines Advisory Group’s PSSM programmes in Burundi(available in French) and Somaliland

Organisation of American States’ SALW and munitions destruction programme in Guatemala (available in Spanish)

UNMAS Physical Security and Stockpile Management Pilot Programme in Côte d’Ivoire (available in French)

UNMAS rapid response project in Congo-Brazzaville (available in French)