Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities project (AMAC) undertakes studies of communities affected by landmines, with the aim of exploring the potential offered by local resources and local competence in humanitarian mine action (HMA). AMAC works in close partnership with HMA practitioners, both in order to learn from their experiences and to engage in a dialogue that can have an immediate impact on their field operations.
The project is based on the conviction that improved assistance to mine-affected communities must start with a deeper understanding of local responses to landmines: it is imperative for the successful design of HMA projects that community capacities are properly understood. Rather than viewing people in such communities as passive victims, AMAC acknowledges their importance as active subjects. The challenge is then to find ways in which social structures and dynamics within which mine action agencies operate can act as resources in the mine action process.
The project conducts case studies in mine-affected countries, including Angola, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Four sets of issues are at the core of the study:
The project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additional funding sources are currently being sought.
Project leader of the AMAC project has been Kristian Berg Harpviken, from the start in 1999 to 01 May 2006. From this date, Harpviken is still project researcher, while Kjell Erling Kjellman takes over as leader of AMAC.
Hilde Wallacher of the AMAC project at PRIO has published a Policy Brief on the key aspects of gender mainstreaming in mine action. The brief is based on a field study in Cambodia.
PRIO is organizing an international conference in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi, and is organized to look ahead from the anniversary.
PRIO has published the policy brief Meeting the Challenge: National Ownership in Mine Action. The launch of the policy brief happens today in Geneva at the Seventh Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention).
As of 01 May 2006, Kjell Erling Kjellman will be the new project leader of Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities project (AMAC) at PRIO. Kristian Berg Harpviken, who has led the project since the start in 1999, will remain attached to the project.
PRIO’s project Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities (AMAC) is pleased to announce the launch of its latest report Preparing the Ground for Peace: Mine Action in Support of Peacebuilding. The report, edited by Kristian Berg Harpviken and Rebecca Roberts of the AMAC project, was launched at the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World.
UNDP and PRIO announced the launch of their new report on mainstreaming mine action in development at the recent Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World. The report is entitled Reclaiming the Fields of War: Mainstreaming Mine Action in Development.
Monograph
Journal Article in The Journal of ERW and Mine Action
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PRIO Policy Brief
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PRIO Paper
Book Chapter in En framtid uten frykt for miner: 10 år med minekonvensjonen
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Popular Article in Dagbladet
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PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Report
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Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
Book Chapter in The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action
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PRIO Report
PRIO Report
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Journal Article in Third World Quarterly
Journal Article in Third World Quarterly
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PRIO Report
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