2005 Events

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A chronological list of events on demining. In some cases, past conferences have links to their proceedings. To add your own events to this list, contact us describing the event.

TBD = To Be Determined

January 2005
February 2005
February 9-11	Public-Private Partnerships Working Together for a Safer World Washington DC The Department of State's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA) is holding a workshop from February 9-11 to review the success of the partnership program and explore ways for enhanced cooperation. During the 3-day workshop, participants will have the opportunity to share information about their organizations and exchange ideas on how best to advance common goals. We also want to hear your suggestions for the future of the partnership program. Invitation Only For more information, contact Christine Stephan, stephack@jmu.edu or visit http://maic.jmu.edu/partnership
February 12	Jane's The Gulf Defence Conference 2005 Abu Dhabi, UAE This conference brings together senior and expert speakers from both Arab and Western countries to discuss important defence issues facing the Gulf. For more information, visit http://www.conference.janes.com
March 2005
March 1	Mine Action after the Nairobi Summit - Where to Go and What to Look For Landstingssalen, Christiansborg For more information, download the tentative schedule and visit http://www.landminer.dk (Danish)
March 2 - 11	CHAMPS State Campaign South Florida
March 2-3	3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Delft, Netherlands The 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar will be held at the Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands) during May 2-4. The Workshop is devoted to the development and applications of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) techniques in surface and subsurface investigations. The goal of the workshop is to spread knowledge about GPR technology and its use in applications, amongst others humanitarian demining, as well as to provide a possibility for all participants to exchange ideas about the advances in their work and latest results. For more information, visit http://www.geru.ucl.ac.be/IWAGPR2005/
March 3	Polus Annual Benefit Dinner Northampton, MA
March 4	Opus One - Grapes for Humanity Sarasota, FL
March 9 - 11	DDRE-NDRF Seminar Copenhagen, Denmark Danish Defence Research Establishment (DDRE) and Nordic Demining Research Forum (NDRF) in cooperation with EUCLID RTP 14.12 Project organize a seminar on reclamation of land contaminated by munitions-related activities such as military training fields and shooting ranges. For more information, download http://www.ndrf.dk/documents/groupp/WS05-Programme.pdf
March 15	Rotary Meeting Chicago, IL
March 28-29	Landmine tour to Sri Lanka Hosted by One Sri Lanka
March 29-30	Global Security Asia (GSA) 2005 Singapore Expo, Singapore The theme of the event is "Technology Solutions for the new Environment of Asymmetric Conflict" while the focus is on the Asia-Pacific region. The topics to be covered are related to asymmetric warfare and terrorism and mainly concentrate on aspects of technology and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.isn.ethz.ch/edu/ec/conference.cfm?ConfID=3103
April 2005
April 18 -22	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Barcelona, Spain The 2005 International Conference on Robotics and Automation will be held in Barcelona, seven years after the last edition in Europe in 1998. The theme of the ICRA'05 conference, Robots get closer to humans raises issues in matters related to human robot interaction, in advances and experiences of robots and automation at home, at work, for education, as well as in other emerging areas. For more information, visit http://www.icra2005.org/frontal/Presentation.asp
April 19-20	Military Robotics Washington, DC For more information, visit http://www.idga.org/na-2272-01
April 25 - 28	HRC Humanitarian Demining 2005 ? "Use and testing of demining machines" ?ibenik, Republic of Croatia. Organised by CROMAC and CROMAC-Centre for testing, development and training Ltd. Topics will be related to demining machines, testing, development, and there will be exhibits from machine manufacturers and demonstrations. For more information, contact Nicola Pavkovic, nikola.pavkovic@hcr.hr.
April 26-28	ITEC 2005 Amsterdam, Netherlands The 16th annual ITEC, Europe?s only dedicated conference and exhibition for defence training, education and simulation for Military and Government personnel. For more information, visit http://www.itec.co.uk/
Last week of April	CHAMPS State Campaign / Clear Path International Vermont
April 29	Grapes for Humanity Wine Dinner New York, NY
May 2005
First week of may	CHAMPS State Campaign / Clear Path International Vermont
May 2-3	3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Delft, Netherlands The 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar will be held at the Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands) during May 2-4. The Workshop is devoted to the development and applications of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) techniques in surface and subsurface investigations. The goal of the workshop is to spread knowledge about GPR technology and its use in applications, amongst others humanitarian demining, as well as to provide a possibility for all participants to exchange ideas about the advances in their work and latest results. For more information, download this .pdf document or email S?astien Lambot
May 5	Landmines Blow! Fundraiser
May 9-10	Approache to Recovery and Reintegration: Survivors of War-related Injuries Washington, D.C. Landmine Survivors Network, in partnership with other organizations, announce a two-day conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The conference will be organized around four themes: Global Picture of War-Related Trauma Systems Approaches to Recovery and Reintegration (policy issues, health systems, etc.) Physical and Psychosocial Approaches to Recovery and Reintegration (experiences of trauma practitioners, physical rehabilitation, etc.) Economic Approaches to Recovery and Reintegration For more information, visit http://www.survivorconference.org/
May 23-26	MINWARA Spring 2005 Conference Bay Point Marriott, Panama City, FL The theme for the conference will be Mine Warfare in Sea Shield: Is Access Assured for Expeditionary Strike Forces and the Seabase? For more information, visit http://www.minwara.org/Meetings/2005_05/ Spring_2005_Regional_Conference.htm
May 26-27	International Security Exhibition (ISPEX) 2005 For more information, email umacc@inet.ua or call 380-50-946-01-85
June 2005
June 4	Roots of Peace "Treasure Island" Fundraiser
June 13-15	14th International Conference on Safe Communities Bergen, Norway The main theme of this conference is Violence Prevention in Creating Safe Communities and will cover violence prevention, traffic safety, home safety, school safety, occupational safety, cost/benefit of safety promotion, role of rescue services in creating safe communities. The conference is intended for professionals, policymakers, organizations and communities involved in prevention, control and research activities related to violence, suicide and accidents. For more information, visit http://www.who.int/violenceprevention/events/13_06_2005/en/
June 13-17	Meetings of the Standing Committees Geneva, Switzerland. Contact: Kerry Brinkert, GICHD, k.brinkert@gichd.ch
June 19	Rotary International 100th Anniversary Chicago, IL
June 21-23	International Workshop on Robotics and Mechanical Assistance in Humanitarian Demining (HUDEM2005) The 6th IARP Workshop on Robotics and Mechanical Assistance in Humanitarian Demining will be held in Tokyo from June 21st through 23rd, just after the International Advanced Robotics Programme - Joint Coordinating Forum meeting. The objective of this workshop is to encourage development of systems, which dispense humans from demining operation in harsh and demanding or dangerous environment, to meet strong operational needs of robotic and other advanced technologies for more reliable, more efficient and safer demining operation. For more information, download this .pdf document or email Yvan Baudoin
July 2005
July 18-21	Department of Defense Demining Research and Development Program Requirements Workshop Arlington, VA Contact: Jennifer Crump, jennifer.crump@nvl.army.mil
August 2005
August 2-12	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines (MOTAPM). Geneva, Switzerland Contact: Davide Orifici, GICHD, d.orifici@gichd.ch
August 24-26	NDRF Summer Conference 2005 Sverige, Sweden For more information, visit http://www.ndrf.dk/events.asp?event=future or download http://www.ndrf.dk/documents/groupp/SS05-Programme.pdf.
August 30 - September 2	Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2005 Trondheim, Norway The 31st conference in a series of the Very Large Data Bases conferences. For more information, visit http://www.vldb2005.org
September 2005
October 2005
October 5-6	Confidence Building and Regional Cooperation through Mine Action Tbilisi, Georgia For more information, visit http://www.itf-fund.si/dokumenti/dokument.asp?id=106
October 6-7	WRA Regional Partnership Workshop Chicago, Illinois
October 19	Grapes for Humanity Wine Dinner Toronto, Canada
October 25-26	C4ISR Interoperability Europe 2005 Brussels, Belgium For more information, contact Janice O'Dette
November 2005
November 3	Night of 1000 Dinners For more information, visit Adopt-A-Minefield at http://www.1000dinners.com/site/whatIs.cfm
November 14-22	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines (MOTAPM). Geneva, Switzerland Contact: Davide Orifici, GICHD, d.orifici@gichd.ch
November 23	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of States Party to Amended Protocol II. Contact: Davide Orifici, GICHD, d.orifici@gichd.ch
November 24-25	Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW): Meeting of the States Parties. Contact: Davide Orifici, GICHD, d.orifici@gichd.ch
November 28- December 2	Sixth Meeting of the States Parties 28 November - 2 December 2005, Croatia. Contact: Kerry Brinkert, GICHD, k.brinkert@gichd.ch
November 30 - December 2	Inventory and analysis of operationally validated results related to mine action space - and airborne surveys 30 November - 2 December 2005, Zagreb, Croatia. Contact: Milan Bajic, milan.bajic@zg.htnet.hr
December 2005
December 10 - 14	Towards a New World Order For more information, visit Global Symposium at http://www.cmseducation.org/symposium/
December 15 - 16	Reliability Tests for Demining (testing and evaluation of metal detectors) Berlin, Germany For more information, view workshop brochure or contact the head of the organizing committee, Christina Mueller, christina.mueller@bam.de