Today's Fresh Blogs...

• 0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Humanitarian Impacts, Humanitarian Action, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Borrie, Human Security, Altruism, Civilians, Accountability

  technology is transforming humanitarian relief - and shifting the balance of power between donors and recipients.It all sounds great. But the Economist conceded that - beyond anecdotal evidence - there isn't a definitive verdict yet on how much of a difference such new technologies have made in achieving more effective humanitarian aid

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• "Cognitive Ergonomics"?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Social Interactions, Human Nature, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Intuitions, Cognitive Ergonomics, Diplomacy

  to the Disarmament as Humanitarian Action project's third volume of work, which you can access by clicking on the book with the pink cover at left.Enjoy!

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cluster munitions: hearing the voices of the affected

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Non State Armed Groups, Handicap International, Circle Of Impact, Serbia, Fatal Footprint, Cluster Munitions, Landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Action, Borrie, Lebanon, Civilians

  organization (NGO), Landmine Action, to feed into work in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).The survey was a fairly preliminary piece of desk-research. It simply aimed at pulling together existing bits of information about explosive munitions (apart from landmines) that had been abandoned or failed to function as intended, in

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Re-humanize yourself: The Belgrade Conference of states affected by cluster munitions

  Published: October 5, 2007, 7:26 am

  Tags: Civil Society, Serbia, Humanitarian Impacts, Belgrade, Oslo Process, Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munitions, Borrie, Human Security, Anti Personnel Mines, Civilians, Affected States

  experts are among the unsung humanitarian heroes. Their work is tricky, often tense and - because rendering unexploded munitions safe is an art rather than a science - also sometimes unavoidably dangerous. Disposing of unexploded submunitions is one of the worst jobs because these weapons are anything but "duds": they're unpredictable,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• What do survivors think of cluster munitions?

  Published: October 22, 2007, 3:21 am

  Tags: Civil Society, Handicap International, Circle Of Impact, Fatal Footprint, Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munitions, Human Security, Affected States

  Oslo process to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions in a way that responds to affected communities' needs. The project is born out of research on the human impact of cluster munitions that my organization, Handicap International, and our research partners conducted over the past two years (see Fatal Footprint and Circle of

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Putting Predictions to the Test

  Published: November 2, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Tetlock, Fact Based Analysis, Psychology, Expert Judgment, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Prediction, Accountability

  UNIDIR's Disarmament as Humanitarian Action project is currently working on a publication looking at some constraints on multilateral negotiations, and how some of these might be overcome or at least potentially mitigated.One conundrum for policy makers in general is that it's very difficult to accurately predict outcomes of complex

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Disarmament Insight: 2007 in review

  Published: December 12, 2007, 2:37 am

  Tags: Unidir, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Geneva, Disarmament Insight

  project on Disarmament as Humanitarian Action and the Geneva Forum are based) to attracting thousands of visitors, at least some of whom we hope have bookmarked the site and return on a frequent basis. Indeed, this post is the 111th. We'd like to thank in particular our Geneva Forum and DHA project donors, our guest bloggers and everyone who's

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cluster munitions: the Wellington Conference begins

  Published: February 18, 2008, 5:29 am

  Tags: Wellington, Humanitarian Impacts, Oslo Process, Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munitions

  Conference on addressing the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions commenced - the last milestone on the way to negotiations on a treaty in Dublin in May as the culmination of the so-called Oslo Process we've followed over the last year on this blog.Many delegates arrived this morning at the Wellington Town Hall jet-lagged but wired awake

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cluster Munition Fact Sheet: A view from the field

  Published: March 26, 2008, 4:00 am

  Tags: Mine Ban Treaty, Fact Based Analysis, Wellington, Humanitarian Impacts, Ccw, U S, Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munitions, Landmines, Anti Personnel Mines

  be provided purely on a humanitarian basis and not be made conditional upon a state's agreement to any politically motivated international agreement, whether that agreement concerns landmines, cluster munitions or any other conventional weapons."Professionals in Mine Action know how "political" the decisions over where to give humanitarian

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cluster Munitions: Putting impacts (and policies) in context

  Published: March 19, 2008, 6:41 am

  Tags: Fact Based Analysis, Ccw, Victims, U S, Oslo Process, Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munitions

  and on the inter-agency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program, the world's largest such program that clears landmines and ERW, teaches ERW/mine risk education, renders assistance to ERW/mine survivors, conducts research and development on faster and safer ways to detect and clear ERW and mines, and provides humanitarian mine action training to

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cluster Munition Convention: "Disarmament as humanitarian action"

  Published: May 30, 2008, 9:34 am

  Tags: Cluster Munition Coalition, Oslo Process, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Cluster Munition Convention, Dublin Conference

  to it as "disarmament as humanitarian action".Those of us associated with UNIDIR's project on 'Disarmament as humanitarian action: Making Multilateral Negotiations Work' couldn't agree more. It is an historic day, indeed.John BorriePhotograph by John Borrie. Ambassador D ith O'Ceallaigh, President of the Dublin Conference, and its

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0