Landmine Clearance and Peacebuilding: Evidence from Somaliland

Ikpe, Ekaette; Njeri, Sarah

doi:10.1177/15423166211068324

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“…The clearance of territories from explosive items is a necessary condition for the protection of life, peacebuilding, recovery and development, for example, agricultural land use, clearing transport links, and improving trade and market activities (Schindler, 2023). The relationship between demining, humanitarian, social and economic benefits was proved (Ikpe, 2022).…”

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Integrating Humanitarian Demining with Remote Control Tech in Educational Process

Dziuba,

Neroba,

Chukanov

et al. 2023

RDLUZ

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The aim of the work is to investigate the possibility of introducing the system of humanitarian demining into the educational process of higher education institutions (HEIs) of Ukraine. The introduction of modern equipment against improvised explosive devices explosive items, for example remotely controlled ones, was also studied. Methods used: content analysis, semi-structured interviews, and self-assessment of the sapper’s competence. The conducted research for the first to describe the results of the possibility of introducing a system of humanitarian demining in HEIs of Ukraine, where it has not yet been introduced. It was found that educational institutions for military training in various fields have sufficient material and technical resources for professional training of demining personnel. It is also proposed to renew or renovate the demining equipment, as well as introduce a project activity on the development of remotely controlled mechanisms against explosive items into the educational process. The results can be useful to researchers and teachers who are working on updating the content of education in accordance with the current security needs. Further research should be conducted on the monitoring of new demining equipment.

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Integrating Humanitarian Demining with Remote Control Tech in Educational Process

Dziuba,

Neroba,

Chukanov

et al. 2023

RDLUZ

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RELand: Risk Estimation of Landmines via Interpretable Invariant Risk Minimization

Dulce Rubio,

Zeng,

Wang

et al. 2024

ACM J. Comput. Sustain. Soc.

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Landmines remain a threat to war-affected communities for years after conflicts have ended, partly due to the laborious nature of demining tasks. Humanitarian demining operations begin by collecting relevant information from the sites to be cleared, which is then analyzed by human experts to determine the potential risk of remaining landmines. In this paper, we propose RELand system to support these tasks, which consists of three major components. We (1) provide general feature engineering and label assigning guidelines to enhance datasets for landmine risk modeling, which are widely applicable to global demining routines, (2) formulate landmine presence as a classification problem and design a novel interpretable model based on sparse feature masking and invariant risk minimization, and run extensive evaluation under proper protocols that resemble real-world demining operations to show a significant improvement over the state-of-the-art, and (3) build an interactive web interface to suggest priority areas for demining organizations. We are currently collaborating with a humanitarian demining NGO in Colombia that is using our system as part of their field operations in two areas recently prioritized for demining. The resulting dataset and developed code can be found here .

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Landmine Clearance and Peacebuilding: Evidence from Somaliland

Cited by 2 publications

References 31 publications

Integrating Humanitarian Demining with Remote Control Tech in Educational Process

Integrating Humanitarian Demining with Remote Control Tech in Educational Process

RELand: Risk Estimation of Landmines via Interpretable Invariant Risk Minimization

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