Ideological and analytical foundations of mine action: Human rights and community impact

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 939-954

  Horwood, Christopher ^a  

^a UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan ^*  (Afghanistan)

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Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANITARIAN AID; IDEOLOGY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 33746404679     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143659032000132948     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. The Human Rights Council of Australia's (HRCA) 2001 publication of The Rights Way to Development is an example of such policy definition. This article draws from the findings of that project and publication. HRCA, The Rights Way to Development, Sydney: HRCA, 1995.
2. Recent developments in the theory and practice of the emergence of 'new humanitarianism' are charted in D Chandler, Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention, London: Pluto Press, 2002;
3. and D Rieff, Bed For The Night: Humanitarianism In Crisis, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
4. F Terry, Condemned To Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; and the works listed in note 6 elaborate well the difficulties and controversies of the current debate.
5. There are various general and country-specific studies of the levels of impact of landmines on communities and societies. A useful early example is S Roberts & J Williams, After the Guns Fall Silent, Washington, DC: Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 1995.
6. Another valuable study is R McGrath, Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance: A Resource Book, London: Pluto Press, 2000.
7. M Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
8. M B Anderson, Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - Or War, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999. For Cambodia valuable comments on land rights were obtained from papers compiled by Katherine B Grant (UNCHR Field Officer).
9. In D Chandler, Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention, London: Pluto Press, 2002, pp 44-46, the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) and the British government's Department for International Development (DFID) are cited as examples of where a new rights-based funding policy has required aid agencies to halt or change their level of intervention in Sudan and Sierra Leone.
10. GICHD/UNDP, A Study of Socio-Economie Approaches to Mine Action, Geneva: GICHD/UNDP, 2001, at http://www.gichd.ch/publications/index.htm.
11. G Harris, 'The economics of landmines clearance: Case study Cambodia', Journal of International Development, 12 (2), 2000, pp 219-225.
12. The Afghan study was first conducted by the Mine Clearance Planning Agency (1998-99) under the aegis of the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan. The data were later developed into a World Bank study. WA Byrd & B Gildestad, The Socio-Economic Impact of Mine Action in Afghanistan: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, Islamabad: World Bank, 2001.
13. In Lao People's Democratic Republic an evaluator, Taylor, conducted unpublished CBA studies for the Mines Advisory Group and uxo Lao in 2000 ('CBA Study2') and 2001 ('Real Cost & Productivity Study'), while GICHD included the case study on Laos in GICHD/UNDP, A Study of Socio-Economic Approaches to Mine Action.
14. A S Millard & K B Harpviken, Reassessing the Impact of Humanitarian Mine Action: Illustrations from Mozambique, PRIO Report 1/2000, Oslo: PRIO, 2000;
15. and A S Millard & KB Harpviken, Community Studies in Practice: Implementing a New Approach to Landmine Impact Assessment with Illustrations from Mozambique, PRIO Report 1/2001, Oslo: PRIO, 2001.
16. C M Horwood (for Channel Research), 'Socio-economic impact study of DanChurchAid in Kosovo, 2001 ', DanChurchAid, Copenhagen, 2001. Available from DanChurchAid.
17. Paul O'Brien, 'Benefits-harms analysis: A rights-based tool developed by CARE International', Humanitarian Exchange, March 2002, p 29.
18. A good example of a recent publication that details the impact-assessment imperative in development and emergency programmes, as well as offering tools for measurement, is C Roche, Impact Assessment for Development Agencies: Learning to Value Change, Oxford: Oxfam, 1999.