Publication

This study addresses the issue of mine clearance efficiency. It was raised by the realization that much of the land being cleared, using expensive and resource-intensive assets, did not, in the end, contain hazardous items. The report stimulates mine action programs into thinking in a more lateral way and to consider more closely options for releasing land in a non-technical manner. It examines lessons learned from six countries in particular: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.