Landmines 101: Table of Contents
Introduction
- Why should I get involved?
- What is a landmine?
- What are the consequences of using landmines?
- What is mine action?
- Why is it so difficult to identify a minefield?
- How do deminers find landmines?
- In a country littered with landmines, how do you know where to start?
- Why not use machines to make demining faster and safer?
- How does the environment affect landmine clearance?
- How do you prepare the ground for demining?
- What’s all this I hear about dogs?
- What is it like to be a deminer?
- Why is research and development so important to the field of mine action?
- What improvements have been made to the metal detector?
- What is the potential for using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to detect landmines?
- How is infrared technology being used to detect landmines?
- What kind of research is being done using plants in detecting landmines?
- What is Remote Explosive Scent Tracing?
- Other than dogs, are there other animals that might be used for locating landmines?
- How can bees be used to detect landmines?
- How can bacteria detect landmines?
- Besides the metal detector, are there other promising mechanical devices that might aid detection and clearance?
- What’s the difference between a landmine “victim” and a “survivor”?
- What is meant by survivor assistance?
- What is involved in prosthetic rehabilitation?
- I’m healed...now what?
- What kind of special economic hardships face landmine survivors?
- What is the ultimate goal of landmine survivor assistance?
- What can organizations do to help landmine survivors?
- What factors contribute most to the success of survivor assistance programs?
- Who are injured by landmines?
- What is mine risk education (MRE)?
- How do you change people’s behavior?
- Why is mine risk education important to mine action?
- How do educators determine the best way to reach a given group of people?
- What communication approaches are used in MRE?
- Who does MRE?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of traditional classroom-style instruction?
- What is the best way to engage people in MRE?
- What messages are used in MRE programs?
- How has the international community responded to the threat of landmines?
- What is the US policy on landmines?
- Is there a strategic impact to these treaties?
- What do these treaties amount to?
- Mine action: Where are we today?
- How does demining technology figure into the mine action equation?
- How are effective national programs established?
- How is mine action a precursor to social development?
- How have program integration and coordination affected mine action?
- What is the potential for mine action in the future?
- What is needed for mine action programs to be successful?
- Why is it important to talk of the landmine problem in terms of impact rather than numbers?
Landmines 101: First Edition
SMART book - First Edition
by MAIC [PDF] (September 2002)