(Harrisonburg, Va.—May 29, 2008) The Mine Action Information Center at James Madison University was awarded two grants totaling $419,528 from the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/WRA), funding two mine-action projects. The “Explosive Remnants of War Awareness in Schools†project was granted $264,098. This...
(HARRISONBURG, Va. – April 30, 2008) James Madison University’s (JMU) Mine Action Information Center, a public policy center focused on humanitarian mine action issues, today announced Anthony Morin as the 2008-2009 U.S. Department of State’s Frasure-Kruzel-Drew Humanitarian Demining Fellowship recipient. The annual fellowship position with the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement...
Following a royal decree on April 1, 2008, the 2008 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban became law in the Kingdom of Jordan. This new law represents a deepening of the government’s commitment to addressing the landmine problem in the Kingdom. Jordan has been actively working to eradicate landmines and other explosive remnants of war since well before it signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use...