A broad-based network of individuals, campaigns and organizations produced
this sixth annual Landmine Monitor report. It was assembled by a dedicated team
of research coordinators and editors, with the support of a significant number
of donors.
This report contains country updates written by 110 Landmine Monitor
researchers from 93 countries, selected by the Landmine Monitor Core Group and
research coordinators. The researchers are cited separately in the List of
Contributors. Landmine Monitor is grateful to everyone who contributed research
to this report, especially those who provided updated reports at their own cost.
We wish to thank the scores of individuals, campaigns, non-governmental and
international organizations, mine action practitioners, and governments who
provided us with essential information.
We are grateful to the coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (ICBL), Liz Bernstein, the hardworking ICBL staff, and the ICBL
Working Group chairs for providing the ICBL entry and for their continued and
crucial assistance in the release, distribution and promotion of the annual
Landmine Monitor reports and fact sheets.
We would like to thank the United Nations agencies, regional organizations,
the International Committee of the Red Cross and non-governmental organizations
that submitted the reports on their activities that are included in the
appendices to this report. These contributing entities do not necessarily
endorse the rest of the Landmine Monitor Report 2004 and they are in no
way responsible for other material contained in this report. Likewise, Landmine
Monitor does not necessarily approve of, nor does it take responsibility for the
accuracy of, material included in the appendices.
Responsibility for the coordination of Landmine Monitor’s reporting
network lies with the five founding Core Group organizations and additional
organizations and individuals:
Human Rights Watch (Stephen Goose, Mark Hiznay, and Mary Wareham) is
Landmine Monitor’s global research coordinator, the thematic coordinator
on ban policy, and the regional research coordinator for the Commonwealth of
Independent States, Middle East and North Africa, and the Pacific;
Handicap International Belgium (Stan Brabant, Sheree Bailey, Annalisa
Formiconi, and Katleen Maes) is the thematic coordinator on victim assistance,
on mine risk education, and the regional research coordinator for Asia;
Kenya Coalition Against Landmines (Mereso Agina and Cornelius Nyamboki) is a
regional research coordinator for Africa;
Mines Action Canada (Paul Hannon, Waldo Abdo Ali, Charlie Avendaño,
and Nancy Ingram) is the regional research coordinator for the Americas;
Norwegian People’s Aid (Wenche Brenden, Sara Sekkenes, and Janecke
Wille) is the thematic coordinator for mine action;
Landmine Action (Ian Doucet) is the regional research coordinator for
Europe;
Landmine Monitor Consultant Marielle Hallez is the regional research
coordinator for Francophone Africa;
Standing Tall Australia (Kristie Barrow, Stephanie Koorey and Loren Persi
funded by AusAID and McKay Wood funded by the Canadian Young Professionals
International Mine Action Program) is assisting Sheree Bailey with victim
assistance research coordination.
The regional research coordinators
and consultant Maureen Hollingsworth undertook initial country report edits for
Landmine Monitor Report 2004 from May to August 2004, while the Arms
Division of Human Rights Watch provided the final editing from June to September
2004. The final editing team consisted of Stephen Goose (chief editor), Mark
Hiznay, Mary Wareham, Stuart Maslen (consultant), and Jody Williams (ICBL
Ambassador and member of the Advisory Committee of the Arms Division of Human
Rights Watch).
Mary Wareham served as the overall coordinator for the production of the
report. Various members of the Human Rights Watch staff provided editorial
assistance and review. Arms Division associates Kate Carman and Briana Wilson
and HRW interns Amelia Bunch, Clare Diefenbach, Jared Eno, Carlee Hobbs, Peter
Muller, Lesia Perun, Jon Sherman, Matthew Willner-Reid, and Melissa Wilt, and
volunteer Katherina Neuffer, provided additional research and editorial
assistance, as well as proof-reading, formatting, and production assistance.
Human Rights Watch was responsible for the printing of Landmine Monitor
Report 2004. ICBL Webmaster Kjell Knudsen provided the online version of
the report at www.icbl.org/lm/2004.
Rafael Jiménez and Glenn Ruga provided design. Jasmine Desclaux-Salachas
and Michael S. Miller provided maps for the report and its Executive Summary.
Digital Interactive produced the CD-Rom version of the report. Many individuals
and organizations responded promptly and generously to our call for photographs
for inclusion in the Executive Summary.
An ambitious series of meetings was held in strategically significant
mine-affected and/or non-signatory countries to both facilitate research and
production for this report and to reinforce the ICBL’s activities in the
period leading to and following from the Mine Ban Treaty’s 2004 Review
Conference. We are grateful for the tireless efforts of the hosts of these
meetings and their supporters. We thank:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War/Kyrgyzstan
(especially Cholpon Galieva and Nurlan Brimkulov and their team) for hosting the
regional research meeting for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 3-6 November 2003. We are grateful to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyztsan for its kind assistance.
The Arab Network of Research on Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War
(especially its coordinator, Ghassan Sharour) for hosting the Middle East/North
Africa researchers meeting in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 8-10 December
2003. We thank the Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services (especially its
director HH Sheikha Jameela Al-Qasemi) for providing generous support.
The Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas (CCCM) (especially its national
coordinator Álvaro Jiménez Millán), ICBL staff member
Jackie Hansen, and Landmine Monitor’s Americas research coordinator
Charlie Avendaño for organizing the annual Americas researchers meeting
in Bogotá, Colombia from 26-30 January 2004. We are grateful to CIREC
(Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia) and UNICEF for their
generous assistance.
Landmine Monitor’s Europe research coordinator Ian Doucet for hosting
the Europe researchers meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on 10 February 2004 and
the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) for providing
the meeting facilities.
The Centre d'Alerte et de Prévention de Conflits/CENAP (especially
Charles Ndayiziga and Jean-Gabriel-Gabin Uwamahoro) and Landmine Monitor’s
Francophone Africa research coordinator Marielle Hallez for organizing the
Francophone Africa researchers meeting in Bujumbura, Burundi from 18-20 February
2004.
The Afghan Campaign to Ban Landmines (especially its chair Shohab Hakimi,
director of the Mine Detection and Dog Center, and member organizations) and
Landmine Monitor’s Asia research coordinator Annalisa Formiconi for their
organization of the annual regional meeting of researchers from Asia-Pacific in
Kabul, Afghanistan from 27-29 March 2004.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina offices of Handicap International and Norwegian
People’s Aid (especially Damir Atikovic/NPA and Melissa Sabatier/HI) and
ICBL consultant Loren Persi for their hosting of Landmine Monitor’s annual
global research meeting in Sarajevo from 3-5 May 2004. We thank the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina for its kind assistance.
Last, but never least, we thank the donors to the Landmine Monitor
initiative and this sixth report. Landmine Monitor's donors are in no way
responsible for, and do not necessarily endorse, the material contained in this
report. It was only possible to carry out this work with the aid of grants
from:
Government of Australia
Government of Austria
Government of Belgium
Government of Canada
Government of Denmark
Government of France
Government of Germany
Government of Italy
Government of Luxembourg
Government of the Netherlands
Government of New Zealand
Government of Norway
Government of Sweden
Government of Switzerland
Government of Turkey
Government of the United Kingdom
European Commission
UNICEF
We also thank the donors who have contributed to the individual members of
the Landmine Monitor Core Group and other participating organizations.
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