Landmine Victims in Jordan - A Needs Assessment Study

As one of few countries in the region Jordan in 1998 decided to sign the international Mine Ban Treaty of 1997. The convention prohibits the use, production and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines, and requires ratifying states to abolish such mines within a maximum period of ten years. Jordan has some 250,000 landmines along its borders with Israel and Syria. While removal of the landmines themselves is the most fundamental objective of the mine-treaty, it draws attention to the victims of landmines as well, expressing in its preamble that signatories wish "to do their utmost in providing assistance for the care and rehabilitation, including the social and economic reintegration of mine victims".

In the context of Norwegian assistance to Jordan's execution of its obligations under the Mine Ban Treaty, Fafo was invited by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry in October 1998 to prepare a study on the scope of the problem of landmine victims in Jordan, and the assistance provided to landmine victims by relevant actors.

Results

• Willy Egset and Suzanne Hammad Landmine Victims in Jordan - A Needs Assessment Study (1999) (electronic version in PDF)

Researchers

• Willy Egset