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Why I Have Joined the International Committee on Robot Arms Control

• 7 May 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Sudan
Tags: Article 36, Autonomous Armed Robots, Bosnia, Brcko, Brcko District, Digital Warfare, humanitarian law, humanitarianism, ICRAC, ICRC, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, International Committee of the Red Cross, landmines, laws of war, Military Robotics, military robots, Mine Ban Treaty, mines, Ottawa Convention, technophilia

The Humanitarian Impact of Drones

• 7 May 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Pakistan, Somalia, United States of America, USA, Yemen
Tags: Autonomous Armed Robots, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Center for Constitutional Rights, CIA, civilian casualties, civilians, cluster munitions, CODE PINK, CODEPINK, Cris Woods, discrimination, Drone, Drone Summit, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Drones, humanitarian, ICRAC, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, John Brennan, landmines, Lucy Suchman, Medea Benjamin, military robots, Pakistan, Repreive, signature strikes, Somalia, UAV, UAVs, Unmanned Arial Vehicle, Yemen

International Mine Awareness Day: US Advocacy Groups Call on White House to Sign Ban

• 4 April 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, United States of America, USA
Tags: Afghanistan, antipersonnel landmines, European Union, Firoz Ali Alizada, human impact, Human Rights Watch, International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, Iraq, Landmine Ban, landmine survivors, landmines, Lend Your Leg, Mine Awareness Day, Mine Ban Treaty, mines, NATO, Obama, Ottawa Convention, Steve Goose, survivor, Syria, The Ripple Effect, US, US Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, Zach Hudson

US Landmine Policy: Time for Change

• 22 March 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, Obama, Ottawa Convention, United States of America, USA

Fed up of #Phony2012? Some better alternatives for your donations and solidarity

• 10 March 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Uganda
Tags: #Phony2012, ARLPI, Before You Give, Chris Blattman, Chris Dolan, Critical Thinking, Donate, Donations, Foreign Affairs, Invisible Children, Koen Vlassenroot, landmine survivors, landmines, Lords Resistance Army, LRA, LRA reading list, Makerere University, Mareike Schomerus, Margaret Arach Orech, Mennonite Central Committee, Northern Uganda, Obama, reading list, Refugee Law Project, Social Torture, Solidarity, survivor assistance, The Film That Shall Not Be Named, Think!, Tim Allen, to whom it may concern, Uganda, Uganda Landmine Survivors Association, ULSA, Unmuted, Victim Assistance, Visible Children

Lend Your Leg! Call on Obama to Ban Landmines!

• 1 March 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: landmines, Lend Your Leg, Mine Ban Treaty, mines, NATO, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Ottawa Convention, US Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, USCBL, White House

@politicalmines

• 28 February 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: @politicalmines, landmines, Political Minefields, Twitter

Landmines and the Politics of Violent Mapmaking

• 2 February 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Bosnia, Sudan
Tags: Bosnia, Bosnia Remade, Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, Bosnia's Political Landmines, Carl T. Dahlman, Charles Mather, critical geopolitics, Demining, ethnic cleansing, Gearoid O Tuathail, geopolitics, Gerard Toal, gis, information management, Landmine, landmine maps, landmines, maps, mine clearance, mines, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan's Expensive Landmines, UN, Yugoslavia

Occupy Economics

• 5 December 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: aid, commercial demining, Contracting, Demining, deregulation, economics, foreign aid, landmines, London School of Economics, neo-liberalism, New York City, Occupy, Occupy Economics, Occupy Wall Street, Privatization

Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

• 4 July 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Cambodia, Libya, Sudan, Thailand, USA
Tags: Cambodia, Cluster Munition Convention, cluster munitions, landmine treaty, landmines, Libya, Mine Ban Treaty, norms, Ottawa Convention, Sudan, Thailand, USA

Political Minefields

Why I Have Joined the International Committee on Robot Arms Control

The Humanitarian Impact of Drones

International Mine Awareness Day: US Advocacy Groups Call on White House to Sign Ban

US Landmine Policy: Time for Change

Lend Your Leg! Call on Obama to Ban Landmines!

@politicalmines

Landmines and the Politics of Violent Mapmaking

Occupy Economics

Threats to the Global Norms on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

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