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Research Orientation Guide Landmine Monitor Report 2008: Toward a Mine-Free World Research Orientation Guide 1 Research Orientation Guide Landmine Monitor Report 2008: Toward a Mine-Free World Contents Background ......................................................................................................................... 3 What are mines, UXO and ERW? ....................................................................................... 3 What is the ICBL? ............................................................................................................ 4 What is Landmine Monitor?............................................................................................... 5 How did Landmine Monitor start? ...................................................................................... 6 Who is the report’s target audience?.................................................................................. 7 What does Landmine Monitor produce?.............................................................................. 7 What does Landmine Monitor report on?............................................................................ 9 Does Landmine Monitor Report on ERW? ........................................................................... 9 The Landmine Monitor Network............................................................................................. 9 Who is involved in Landmine Monitor? ............................................................................... 9 The Production Cycle.......................................................................................................... 12 Participation in International Meetings ............................................................................. 13 2008 Production Schedule............................................................................................... 14 Being a Researcher ............................................................................................................ 14 How are researchers selected? ........................................................................................ 14 What does it mean to be a Landmine Monitor researcher? ................................................. 15 Am I expected to do field research?................................................................................. 17 How am I supposed to work with the Editorial Team? ....................................................... 17 What support is available from project staff? .................................................................... 17 Who do I send my research to?....................................................................................... 18 How do I communicate with other researchers?................................................................ 18 Landmine Monitor Finances................................................................................................. 18 Using Landmine Monitor ..................................................................................................... 20 How do I order copies of the report? ............................................................................... 20 Can I release the report in my country? ........................................................................... 20 Can I translate the report into my local language? ............................................................ 21 Can I present the report findings at other conferences and activities?................................. 22 Using Landmine Monitor in Advocacy ............................................................................... 22 Resources and Tools .......................................................................................................... 23 Sources of Information ................................................................................................... 23 Media Reports................................................................................................................ 24 Key Terms..................................................................................................................... 25 Research Standards and Methods........................................................................................ 29 Report Presentation............................................................................................................ 31 Formatting .................................................................................................................... 31 Language ...................................................................................................................... 31 Statistics, Tables, Numbers, Currencies ............................................................................ 33 Titles and Names ........................................................................................................... 33 Footnotes ...................................................................................................................... 33 How do I get started?......................................................................................................... 35 Appendix 1 ........................................................................................................................ 37 Appendix 2 ........................................................................................................................ 41 Appendix 3 ........................................................................................................................ 42 Appendix 4 ........................................................................................................................ 45 2 Research Orientation Guide Landmine Monitor Report 2008: Toward a Mine-Free World Background What are mines, UXO and ERW? Peace agreements may be signed, and control of the party that left it behind. It hostilities may cease, but landmines and may or may not have been primed, explosive remnants of war are an fuzed, armed or otherwise prepared for enduring legacy of conflict. use. ERW consist of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned Antipersonnel mines are munitions that explosive ordnance (AXO). explode from the presence, proximity or contact of a person. Antivehicle mines Both landmines and ERW pose a serious are munitions that explode from the and ongoing threat to civilians. These presence, proximity, or contact of a weapons can be found on roads, vehicle as opposed to a person. footpaths, farmer’s fields, forests, deserts, along borders, in and Explosive remnants of war (ERW) refer surrounding houses and schools, and to unexploded and/or abandoned other places where people are carrying ordnance left behind after a conflict. out their daily activities. They deny ERW includes unexploded artillery access to food, water, and other basic shells, grenades, mortars, rockets, air- needs and inhibit freedom of movement. dropped bombs and cluster They prevent the repatriation of submunitions. Cluster munitions consist refugees and internally displaced of containers and submunitions. people, and hamper the delivery of Launched from the ground or the air, humanitarian aid. the containers open and disperse submunitions over a wide area. These weapons instill fear in communities, whose citizens often know Landmines are victim-activated and they are walking in mined areas, but indiscriminate – whoever activates the have no possibility to farm other land, or mine, whether it is a child or a soldier – take another route to school. When land will be its next victim. Mines used in a cannot be cultivated, when medical conflict against enemy forces can kill or systems are drained by the cost of injure innocent civilians decades later. attending to landmine/ ERW casualties, and when countries must spend money Weapons that for some reason fail to clearing mines rather than paying for detonate as intended become education, it is clear that these weapons unexploded ordnance (UXO). These not only cause physical damage to unstable explosives are left behind people injured or killed by them – they during and after conflicts and pose are a lethal barrier to development and dangers similar to landmines. post-conflict reconstruction. Abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO) is explosive ordnance that has not been There are solutions to the global used during armed conflict and has landmine and ERW problem. The 1997 been left behind and is no longer under Mine Ban Treaty provides the best 3 Research Orientation Guide Landmine Monitor Report 2008: Toward a Mine-Free World framework for governments to use in Conventional Weapons (CCW). Its alleviating the suffering of civilians living provisions are considered insufficient by in areas affected by antipersonnel non-governmental organizations mines. Governments who join this treaty (NGOs), but Protocol V does make must stop use, stockpiling, production efforts to address responsibility for ERW and transfer of antipersonnel mines clearance, sharing information for immediately. They must destroy all clearance, risk education, warning stockpiled mines within four years, and civilian populations, and assistance. they must clear all antipersonnel landmines in all mined areas under their In 2006, the Norwegian government jurisdiction or control within 10 years. In started a process to create a legally addition, States Parties in a position to binding agreement prohibiting cluster do so must provide assistance for the munitions that cause unacceptable harm care and treatment of
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