Acting as one? co-ordinating responses to the landmine problem
This article looks at co-ordination within humanitarian mine action (hma), and co-ordination between hma and other humanitarian and development initiatives. The discussion focuses specifically on the role of UN-led Mine Action Centres (macs) and the analysis draws on case studies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Afghanistan. A contention throughout is that macs often employ a rigid approach to co-ordination. This constricts the flexibility of mine action organisations, limits the development of creative initiatives and poses a barrier to co-ordination between hma and other humanitarian initiatives. A second point pursued is that co-ordination arrangements are embedded in a broader institutional context, and this context has in turn the potential to impact on co-ordination. The analysis presented here suggests a number of implications for hma in general, together with a number of policy considerations. The article concludes by offering some thoughts for the future on the importance of effective co-ordination arrangements both within hma as a sector and between hma and other sectors of humanitarian assistance.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Kjell Erling Kjellman is in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, PO Box 1096 Blindern, NO-0317 Oslo, Norway. [email protected]. Kristian Berg Harpviken is at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Fuglehauggata 11, NO-0260 Oslo, Norway. Email: [email protected]. Ananda S Millard is at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (gichd), 7bis avenue de la Paix, PO Box 1300, CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland. Email: [email protected]. Arne Strand is at the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), PO Box 6033 Postterminalen, NO-5892 Bergen, Norway. Email: [email protected].
Publication date: 01 October 2003
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