Landmines and Cluster Munitions

Landmines and cluster munitions (which disperse smaller submunitions) are considered indiscriminate weapons and have caused terrible harm to civilians, often years and decades after fighting concludes. They have been banned under the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions.

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Political Minefields: The Struggle against Automated Killing | I.B. Taurus | 2020 | Matthew Breay Bolton
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Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas | First Committee Monitor | Volume 17, No. 6 | Laura Boillot
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Explosive Weapons | First Committee Monitor | Volume 17, No. 4 | Laura Boillot
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Explosive Weapons | First Committee Monitor | Volume 17, No. 3 | Laura Boillot
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Explosive Weapons | First Committee Monitor | Volume 17, No. 2 | Laura Boillot
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#WPSAdvice: Put Canada Back in Humanitarian Disarmament | Peace and Security Network - Canada | October 10, 2019. | Erin Hunt
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Local Peacebuilding in East Africa: The Role of Customary Norms and Institutions in Addressing Pastoralist Conflict in Kenya and Uganda | Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies (ed. Stacey Connaughton and Jessica Berns) | September 26, 2019. | Matthew Breay Bolton
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Chinese GP6 guided artillery projectiles in Libya | Armament Research Services | September 18, 2019. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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Is Africa ready for weapons that call their own shots? | ISS Today | August 29, 2019. | Gugu Dube
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Chinese CS/LS06 ‘Chang Feng’ sub-machine gun | Armament Research Services | August 28, 2019. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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Field Guide No.2: Introduction to Photogrammetry | Armament Research Services | April 2, 2019. | N.R. Jenzen-Jones
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Jeff Abramson's testimony | Forum on the Arms Trade | April 1, 2019. | Jeff Abramson
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Autonomous Weapons, Ethical AI, and Feminist Foreign Policy | Reaching Critical Will | Volume 7, No. 1-5 | Erin Hunt
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Long-Term Risk Management Tools and Protocols for Residual Explosive Ordnance Mitigation | GICHD | 2019 | Katrin Atkins
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The impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war in food security: The Lebanese case | The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction | 2019 | Henrique Garbino
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The Waiting List. Addressing the immediate and long-term needs of victims of explosive weapons in Syria | Humanity & Inclusion | 2019 | Alma Taslidžan
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Explosive weapons: Protecting civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas | Article 36 | September 2018 | Laura Boillot
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Explosive weapons in populated areas - key questions and answers | International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW) | June 2018 | Laura Boillot
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Using the Arms Trade Treaty to Address Pastoralist Conflict and Wildlife Crime in Kenya’s Marginalized Regions | Pace University | 2018 | Matthew Breay Bolton
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Muhammad bin Salman meeting with Donald Trump | Forum on the Arms Trade | March 19, 2018. | Iain Overton, Jeff Abramson, William Hartung, Andrew Feinstein
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US Arms Transfer Initiative | Forum on the Arms Trade | March 6, 2018. | Rachel Stohl, Jeff Abramson, Colby Goodman
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The use of explosive weapons in populated area: it is time to act | Humanity & Inclusion | 2018 | Alma Taslidžan
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Women, peace and security and US foreign policy | Saferworld | 2017 | Ursala Knudsen-Latta
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Operating under Fire; The Effects of Explosive Weapons on Health Care in the East of Ukraine | Harvard Law Schoo'ls International Human Rights Clinic and PAX | May 2017 | Roos Boer
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Cluster Munition Mon | The Monitor | 2017 | Jeff Abramson
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