Measuring Explosive Munitions Use with Open-Source Data: A New Tool for Enhancing Humanitarian Mine Action

Authors

Jonathan Robinson, Humanitarian ResearcherFollow
Christoph Baade, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsFollow

Abstract

Since 2011, there has been widespread use of explosive weapons—including conventional weapons, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and landmines—by all sides in the Syrian conflict.¹ As is known from other contexts, a proportion of these either fail to detonate, becoming unexploded ordnance (UXO), or are abandoned by combatants to become abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO).² Long after conflicts have ended, these explosive remnants of war (ERW) endure as multi-generational threats to a community’s population and future development.³

Recommended Citation

Robinson, Jonathan and Baade, Christoph (2021) "Measuring Explosive Munitions Use with Open-Source Data: A New Tool for Enhancing Humanitarian Mine Action," The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction: Vol. 25 : Iss. 1 , Article 24.
Available at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol25/iss1/24