View from the Summit covers breaking news and media on the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World. From November 30th to December 4th, 2009, hundreds of international organizations will meet in Cartagena, Colombia to assess the impact of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, a watershed agreement between states and nations to ban all anti-personnel mines. The international community will evaluate the progress made since the treaty’s inception and will “redouble its efforts to end, forever, the suffering and casualties caused by anti-personnel mines.”

The blog is an initiative of Survivor Corps, a leader in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines which caused the Mine Ban Treaty’s creation.Created by landmine survivors, Survivor Corps believes those who have survived war are more invested in building peace.

October 04, 2009, 12:00am   Comments