Training & Education:

Unlike landmines, there is currently no provision in international humanitarian law, which addresses the problem of explosive remnants of war and its humanitarian impact on civilian populations.

However, unlike landmines, which are designed to incapacitate rather than kill, incidents involving other UXO are much more likely to prove fatal. Children account for a high proportion of fatalities, because cluster sub munitions are often small and brightly coloured, making them especially attractive to children. But even adults are threatened. In the poorest communities (but even in the Western world) ERW is valuable as scrap metal and makes it a profitable resource, but the dismantling results in many accidents.

Education of the affected population and training of local mine clearers have a direct impact on the number of accidents.