April 2012: The Spring 2012 CISRsphere Newsletter is available!
April 2012: CISR Director Attends Jordan Minefield Free Celebration
From April 22-26, CISR Director Ken Rutherford will visit Jordan to congratulate the country on its landmine impact-free status. He will join dignitaries and leaders from around the world at the Baptismal Site in Jordan to celebrate “Mine Free Day” on April 24. Read more...
April 2012: Issue 16.1 of The Journal of ERW and Mine Action
is available online NOW!
FOCUS: NGOs in Mine Action
SPECIAL REPORT: Food, Water and Health Security Issues
PLUS: Notes from the Field and Briefs
April 2012: CISR Hosts Post-Conflict Recovery Week!
The first week of April marks the fourth annual Post-Conflict Recovery Week (PCRW) at JMU. From April 2-5 CISR will sponsor a series of events on the JMU campus throughout the week to increase awareness in the Harrisonburg and JMU community of the global landmine problem, post-conflict related issues and what the Center does. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend. All PCRW events are free and open to the public.
April 2012: CISR joins State Department for Field Visits in South SudanCISR Project Manager, Geary Cox, joined Emma Smith Atkinson and Katie Smith of the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the Office Political-Military Affairs, in South Sudan to report on clearance operations in South Sudan.
March 2012: CISR and ODS Welcome Judy Heumann to JMU's Disability Awareness Week
March 2012: Frasure-Kruzel-Drew Humanitarian Demining Fellowship Awarded
March 2012: CISR Conducts Peer Support Workshop in Vietnam On 6, 7 and 8 March, CISR’s Director Ken Rutherford and CISR’s Trauma Rehabilitation Specialist Cameron Macauley conducted a workshop in Dong Hoi, Vietnam with 41 participants, all of whom are persons with disabilities. The workshop focused on how to provide peer support for people with disabilities in Vietnam, many of whom face discrimination, rejection and social marginalization in addition to unemployment and low education levels. The workshop was conducted in partnership with the Association for the Empowerment of People with Disabilities (AEPD), a Vietnamese NGO established by Survivor Corps more than 10 years ago.
February 2012: CISR Program Nominated for Women Deliver Award Voting ends 2 March!
January 2012: CISRsphere Quarterly Newsletter
January 2012: CISR Leads Peer Support Training for Torture Survivors in Uganda
On Tuesday 24 January 2012, CISR initiated a four-day workshop in Entebbe, Uganda on psycho-social support for survivors of torture.
The 21 participants are counselors, social workers and psychologists from Uganda who work with survivors of torture. ...Read more.
JMU Welcomes 21 International Senior Mine-action Managers
May 2012: CISR and JMU College of Business Awarded $629,513 USAID Contract to Work in Iraq
