Reports

UN Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan Fact Sheet (June 2006) View PDF

Recommended Reading:

Landmines

Cameron, Maxwell A., Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin, eds. To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Mankell, Henning. Secrets in the Fire. USA: Annick Press, 2003. [FICTION]

Matthew, Richard A., Bryan McDonald, and Kenneth R. Rutherford, eds. Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy. New York: State University Press, 2004.

McGrath, Rae. Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance: A Resource Book. London: Pluto Press, 2000.

Purves, Bill. Living With Landmines: From International Treaty to Reality. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001.

Winslow, Philip C. Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Landmines and the Global Legacy of War. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

Rwanda Genocide

Barnett, Michael. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Dallaire, Lgen. Roméo Dallaire. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003.

Gourevitch, Philip. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2004.

Melvern, Linda. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide. London: Verso, 2004.

War-Affected Children

Briggs, Jimmie. Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers go to War. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Singer, P.W. Children at War. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.

International Humanitarian Law

Byers, Michael. War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.

Roth, Kenneth & Minky Worden, Eds. Torture: Does it Make Us Safer? Is it Ever Ok? New York: The New Press, 2005.

Peacekeeping

Davis, James R. The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier’s Story. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1997.

Mackenzie, Major-General Lewis. Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.

Mills, Nicolaus and Kira Brunner, eds. The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Off, Carol. The Lion, the Fox, & the Eagle: A story of generals and justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2000.

Polman, Linda. We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn’t always come out when the UN goes in. London: Penguin Books, 1997.

Peace and Conflict

Axworthy, Lloyd. Navigating a New World: Canada’s Global Future. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2004.

Bortolotti, Dan. Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders. Canada: Firefly Books Ltd., 2006.

Hedges, Chris. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.