Humanitarian Demining Flare Against Cluster Munitions and Hard Cased Land Mines

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divyakant L. Patel ◽  
Jason J. Regnier ◽  
Sean P. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Land Mines ◽  
Humanitarian Demining ◽  
Cluster Munitions

scholarly journals Naming and Praising in Humanitarian Norm Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita H. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Cluster Munitions ◽  
Normative Change ◽  
Naming And Shaming

AbstractTo examine the early development of humanitarian norm cascades, the author focuses on the processes that led to the adoption of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Even though major military powers like the United States, Russia, and China opposed these initiatives, the latter set in motion quick norm cascades that brought about international legal norms stigmatizing land mines and cluster munitions. It is conventionally asserted that international norms emerge either due to great power backing or despite great power opposition, but the author argues that new norms can also take off because of great power opposition. Whenngos and leading states actively foster normative change, a particular type of norm cascade is engineered—one generated by different mechanisms and starting earlier than postulated in the literature. Early norm cascading is driven not by emulation of peers andngonaming and shaming of laggard states, but rather by leadership aspirations and naming and praising.

Remote Controlled Wheeled Mobile Robot for Humanitarian Demining Purposes

2014 ◽  
Vol 658 ◽  
pp. 618-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan Doroftei ◽  
Romain Malherbe ◽  
Gaetan Bred ◽  
Yvan Baudoin ◽  
Ionel Conduraru
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Wheeled Mobile Robot ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
Humanitarian Demining ◽  
International Issue ◽  
Extended Work

There are millions of lethal land-mines that have been left in many countries after conflicts. They represent a particularly acute problem in developing countries and nations already economically hard hit by war. The problem of unexploded mines has become a serious international issue, with many people striving to find a solution. These mines kill or injure thousands individuals each year, most of them civilians. This paper will present an extended work on a wheeled mobile robot for humanitarian demining.

Prospects for application of robotic tools from the multifunctional robotic complex Kungas for solving humanitarian demining tasks

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Eugeniy Antokhin ◽  
Leonid Voronin ◽  
Alexander Gorsky
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Demining ◽  
Robotic Tools

Disarmament

2008 ◽  
pp. 286-299
Author(s):  
Keith Krause
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
The World ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Light Weapons

This article evaluates the achievements and limitations of the world organization in the field of disarmament. It stresses the role of the UN as part of the efforts to control arms as a way to achieve international peace and security. It also notes specific cases where progress was achieved or not, as well as the more recent efforts to handle the problems of anti-personnel land mines and small arms and light weapons. The article also tries to draw out some of the broader implications for international relations of the UN experience with formal multilateral arms control, among others.

scholarly journals Integrated Robotic systems for Humanitarian Demining

10.5772/5694 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Colon ◽  
G. De Cubber ◽  
H. Ping ◽  
J-C Habumuremyi ◽  
H. Sahli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mine Detection ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Visual Positioning ◽  
Humanitarian Demining ◽  
Typical Data ◽  
Terrain Following ◽  
Software Interfaces ◽  
Future Work

This paper summarises the main results of 10 years of research and development in Humanitarian Demining. The Hudem project focuses on mine detection systems and aims at provided different solutions to support the mine detection operations. Robots using different kind of locomotion systems have been designed and tested on dummy minefields. In order to control these robots, software interfaces, control algorithms, visual positioning and terrain following systems have also been developed. Typical data acquisition results obtained during trial campaigns with robots and data acquisition systems are reported. Lessons learned during the project and future work conclude this paper.

scholarly journals Countries continue to ratify land mines treaty

2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-350
Author(s):  
P. Comeau
Keyword(s):  
Land Mines
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