The Killing Fields

Social Studies Online

Current and Global Issue: Landmines

Either: Have students conduct a Social Studies Inquiry into the current and global issue of landmines.

Or: If time is limited, provide students with access to the Internet or information downloaded from the Internet. Three particularly useful sites are:

• The New Internationalist online, the September 1997 issue
  
• Adopt a Minefield
• The International Campaign to Ban Landmines

In pairs or small groups students will:

• Identify a range of problems associated with the issue of landmines in Cambodia and around the world;
• Generate a range of solutions to the problems that they have identified;
• Suggest possible actions that international organisations could/should take to deal with the problems associated with landmines;
• Identify the likely consequences of each suggested action;
• Discuss possible actions that they themselves could take in relation to the issue;
• Decide on the best action and give reasons for their choice.

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