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Places: How does the dispersal of landmines change a place?
- Students draw two
Mental Maps approximately 25cm x 25cm in the centre of
A3 (or larger) sheets of paper:
One of their local area;
The second of an area developing country like Cambodia, Angola,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya or
Vietnam.
Either provide students, individually or in pairs, with online access to
Landmines and Development and
The humanitarian effects of anti-personnel mines
or ensure that each student has
printouts.
- As they work through the information on the effects of landmines on
places they record the information on and around their Mental Map of a
developing country.
Possible headings include:
- Restricting land use;
- Costs of repairing damage;
- Costs of reclaiming minefields;
- Impact on workforce;
- Impact on agriculture;
- Disruptions to transport and communication;
- Environmental impacts;
- Pressures on health systems and resources;
- People forced off own land;
- Restricted access to resources such as education.
Each heading should be supported with examples and supporting evidence from
the resource material.
- Students repeat the exercise using their Mental Map of their local area.
What if... their local area was suddenly turned into a Minefield?
How would their place be changed?
How would their lives be changed?
- The degree of change that landmines will cause in a community will
depend on factors such as:
- the population density of the area;
- the percentage of people affected;
- number and type of landmines deployed;
- the impact on the infrastructure (eg. transport, communications, power,
health and other systems).
What other factors may increase the impact of landmines on a community?
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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