MINUSCA OIC Chief of Mine Action Programme (UNMAS) supporting the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Conflict Armament Research and the NATCOM-SALW
Saharawi Mine Action Women’s Team Member Tumana Ahmed at work, preparing information packs for distribution.
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A day-long community policing workshop facilitated by UNPOL officers in Warrap has gone a long way in building trust between community members and local police, according to the 33 participants who attended. Photo by Peter…
United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers based in Torit, Eastern Equatoria, have embarked on sensitizing members of the Police Community Relations Committees in residential areas on protecting children from being abducted. The…
United Nations Police (UNPOL) officers based in Kuajok, Warrap state, recently held a day-long community policing workshop in Tonj south county for 33 participants drawn from local policing counterparts as well as community…
This research paper spotlights certain successes in the management of obsolete surface-to-air missile stockpiles in Mali. In Mali, UNMAS operates under the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated…
According to the Small Arms Survey, around 526,000 persons are killed every year as a result of armed violence, and many more sustain injuries requiring medical and rehabilitative care that severely impacts their lives. In…
When insurgent groups in Mali initiated a rebellion for independence in late 2011, the National Guard and the Malian Defense and Security Forces (MDSF) in Gao were at the forefront of hostilities, which included the pillaging…
Iraq is changing what we think, say, and do about mine action. The terms, standards, and measurements used by the humanitarian mine action (HMA) community need to be revised as Daesh remains a destabilizing influence. While…
When in control of the area of Iraq north of Baghdad, including the city of Fallujah, ISIS prepared to defend its position from inevitable government counterattack through the widespread use of improvised explosive devices…
More than any other post-conflict environment in Iraq, the complexity of west Mosul and its improvised explosive device (IED) threat challenges our fundamental perceptions and definitions of mine action. From here, 400 km…
Currently, different versions of EOD/IEDD training courses exist throughout global EOD/IEDD entities – UN Missions, separate national and international Centers of Excellence, individual nations with EOD/ IEDD capacity, etc…
In support of a UN whole-of-system approach to information-sharing and identification of effective IED threat responses, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) developed the SMART IED Threat Mitigation Technology Roadmap…
Explosive hazard (EH) clearance comes at a cost and, logically, with accountability expected as a quid pro quo both for those conducting and those funding clearance activities. Today’s accountability problem arguably begins…