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 2018
Determining the Value of UAVs in Iraq, Brad Alford, Edward Curran, and Shawn Cole
Drones and "Butterflies": A Low-Cost UAV System for Rapid Detection and Identification of Unconventional Minefields, Timothy deSmet, Alex Nikulin, William Frazer, Jasper Baur, Jacob Abramowitz, Daniel Finan, Sean Denara, Nicholas Aglietti, and Gabriel Campos
Drones Supporting Mine Clearance in Northern Sri Lanka, Oliver Gerard-Pearse
Eighth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2018), Convention on Cluster Munitions
Enhancing Humanitarian Mine Action in Angola with High-Resolution UAS IM, Inna Cruz, Luan Jaupi, Shadrack Kassanga Njamba Sequesseque, and Olivier Cottray
Gender & Diversity Annual Report 2017, GICHD
Gender Mainstreaming in Mine Action | Powerful linkages for progress across the SDGs, GICHD, Laura Biscaglia, Vanessa Gomes Sampaio, Ursign Hoffman, and Marion Provencher Langlois
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining | Twenty Years of Supporting Mine Action, GICHD
Global Mapping and Analysis of Anti-Vehicle Mine Incidents in 2017, GICHD and
How Iraq Is Changing What We Do: Measuring Clearance in Urban Environments, Pehr Lodhammar
Increasing Efforts in SSMA: What Does it Take?, Ursign Hofmann, Samuel Paunila, and Katherine Prizeman
International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition Annual Report 2018, ICBL-CMC
ITF Enhancing Human Security Annual Report 2018, ITF-Enhancy Human Security
Landmine Free 2025: A Shared Responsibility, Camille Wallen and Chris Loughran
Landmine Monitor 2018, ICBL-CMC
Lessons from the Past: The Rapid Clearance of Denmark’s Minefields in 1945, Roly Evans
Life-Cycle Management of Ammunition: Safety, Security, and Sustainability, Jovana Carapic, Eric J. Deschambault, Paul Holtom, and Benjamin King
Management of Residual Explosive Remnants of War in Cambodia Report, GICHD
Minefield Sketch Maps in Humanitarian Mine Action, Jesse Hamlin and Luan Jaupi
Mitigating Adverse Environmental Impacts in Mine Action, Martin Jebens and Gianluca Maspoli
Norwegian People's Aid Gender Policy, NPA
Opportunities for Regional Training and Information Exchange Reap Benefits for Central Asia, Paige Ober, Nazira Shozodaeva, Tahmina Akhmedova, and Suzanne Fiederlein
PPE Development and Needs in HMA, Andy Smith
Sepon Supports UXO Clearance in Laos, Saman Aneka and Micheal Valent
Shared Interest: How USAID Enhances U.S. Economic Growth, United States Agency for International Development
Shattered Lives and Bodies: Recovery of Survivors of Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosive Remnants of War in Northeast Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières
Solidarity in Action: Norwegian People's Aid Annual Report 2018, NPA
The Added Value of Integrating UAVS Into the HMA Toolkit, Shathel Fahs and Greg Crowther
The Effects of ERW Contamination in Sri Lanka, Jennifer Dathan
The Eighth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2018), CCM
The Hybrid Thermal Lance: A Promising New Technique for the Destruction of Landmines and UXO by Deflagration, Donald Pratt and Nick Torbet
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction Issue 22.1 (2017), CISR JMU
The Reduction of Weapons-Related Violence: A Global Approach to Saving Lives, HI
The State of Play in Safe and Secure Management of Ammunition, GICHD
To Walk the Earth in Safety 17th Edition (CY2017), US DOS PM/WRA
United Nations Improvised Explosive Device Disposal Standards, UNMAS
UNMAS 2017 Annual Report, UNMAS
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Risk Appetite Statement, United States Agency for International Development
Using Communication Theories in Mine-Risk Education Campaigns: The Case of Vietnam, Duong Trong Hue
Why and How All States Should Join the Convention on Cluster Munitions, ICBL-CMC
Why is Water so Efficient at Suppressing the Effects of Explosions?, Stephen Salter and John Parkes
Zimbabwe National Mine Action Strategy 2018-2025, Mine Action Centre Zimbabwe
Submissions from 2017
16th Meeting of the States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2017), APMBC
21st Century Survey in Eastern Ukraine and the Use of Technology in Insecure Environments, Nick Torbet and Patrick Thompson
Achieving PSSM Through Civil Society and Military Cooperation, Lee Moroney
Addressing the Explosive Hazard Threat in Northern Syria: Risk Education on Landmines, UXO, Booby Traps, and IEDs, Louise Skilling and Marysia Zapasnik
An APT Demining Machine, Andy Smith
An Initial Study Into Mine Action and Improvised Explosive Devices, GICHD
APOPO Annual Report 2017, APOPO
Black Adder Disruptors, Andy Smith and William Bagley
Bosnia and Herzegovina: ITF Enhancing Human Security Perspective 20 Years After the Conflict, Gregor Sancanin
Bridging a Critical Mine Action Information Management Gap: Complex Conflict Environments, Isam Ghareeb Barzangy
Catholic Relief Services: Information and Communication Technology in Monitoring and Evaluation, Nguyen Tuan Phong and Ta Thi Hai Yen
Clearing Landmines and Building Peace in Colombia, Vanessa Finson and Giovanni Diffidenti
Crossing the Fence: Challenges of Operationalizing PSSM, Elvan Isikozlu, Matthias Krötz, and Claire Trancart
DDASaccident814, HD-AID
DDASaccident817, HD-AID
DDASaccident826, HD-AID
DDASaccident828, HD-AID
Demining Programme Office in the Falkland Islands - Exploitation 2017, Fenix -. Insight Ldt.
Developing a Hyperspectral Non-Technical Survey for Minefields via UAV and Helicopter, Milan Bajic, Tamara Ivelja, and Anna Brook
Do No Harm: The Challenge of Protecting Civilians from the IED Threat in South-central Somalia, Abigail Jones
Effects of Weather on Detection of Landmines by Giant African Pouched Rats, Ian McLean and Rebecca Sargisson
Epidemiological Study of Landmines/ ERW Accidents and Victims in Kachin, Kayah, and Shan States, Burma, Julien Zwang and Pascal Simon
Explosive Weapon Effects, GICHD
Gender and Diversity Annual Report 2016, GICHD
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining 2016 Annual Report, GICHD
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining 2017 Annual Report, GICHD
Humanitarian Mine Action and IEDs, Craig McInally and Hans Risser
Improvised Explosive Device Lexicon, UNMAS
Improvised Explosive Devices and the International Mine Action Standards, Guy Rhodes
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED): A Humanitarian Mine Action Perspective, Robert Keeley
International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition Annual Report 2017, ICBL-CMC
Interpreting Submunition Fragmentation Marks on Hard Surfaces for the Survey of Cluster Munition Strikes, Roly Evans
ITF Enhancing Human Security Annual Report 2017, ITF-Enhancy Human Security
Landmine Monitor 2017, ICBL-CMC
Leaving no one Behind: Mine Action and the Sustainable Development Goals, GICHD and United Nations Development Programme
MAG: Clearing Improvised Landmines in Iraq, Chris Loughran and Sean Sutton
Making Ordnance Identification Available to Everyone, Howard Rudat
MEDIAWIKI: SUPPORTING IMSMA DOCUMENTATION, Dionysia Kontotasiou and Olivier Cottray
Military-NGO Partnerships: Lessons Learned for the 8th Theater Sustainment Command's HMA Mission in Vietnam, Shawn Kadleck and Richard Calvin
Mine Action in Burma: Building Trust and Incremental Gains, Greg Crowther, Josephine Dresner, and Michael Aaron
Mine Detecting Rats Make an Impact in Cambodia, Cynthia Fast, Håvard Bach, Paul McCarthy, and Christophe Cox
National Capacities and Residual Contamination I Albania, GICHD
Perspectives of Syrian Women Refugees in Lebanon, HI
Preparing for the Future: How the SDGs Impact Mine Action, Ursign Hofmann and Olaf Juergensen
Prioritisation Policy, Procedures and Practices Relating to UXO Clearance in Lao PDR, GICHD
Promoting Secure Stockpiles and Countering Diversion, Eric Berman and Benjamin King
Public, Private, and Civil Sector Partnerships Bolster Humanitarian Demining Efforts, Bob Ebberson and Wendy Hart
Quality Management and Standards for Humanitarian Improvised Explosive Device (HIED) Response Activities, Robert Keeley
Recovering The Past: A Photographic Documentary Exploring Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Ian Alderman
Refining Explosive Safety Outreach, Geoff Carton and Laura Grindstaff
Social Inclusion of Marginalized Communities: Mine Action in Laos, Tina Kalamar
Solidarity in Action: Norwegian People's Aid Annual Report 2017, NPA
Strengthening Security in Mali with Weapons and Ammunition Management, Marlène Dupouy
The Challenge of Long-term Risk Management in Mine Action, Robert White
The Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository (CORD): 2018 Upgrades, Roly Evans
