Jody Williams

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

American Activist

Kevin O'Leary

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Canadian Businessman

Haris Pasovic

War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

Bosniak Director

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Iranian Director

Tim O'Brien

Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

American Author

Ryan Giggs

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

Welsh Athlete

Seth Moulton

There's simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon. It's no different than why we outlaw civilian ownership of rockets and landmines.

American Politician

Ray Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

American Writer

Sebastian Coe

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

British Politician

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

South Korean Leader

The word 'landmine' implies sudden, unexpected violence and should be used with sensitivity.

Violent Connotation

'Landmine' is often associated with wars and conflicts and can evoke strong emotions.

War Context

Use 'landmine' literally to describe the actual explosive device, not metaphorically for other dangers.

Literal Use

Use 'landmine' figuratively to describe topics that can cause strong reactions or disputes.

Sensitive Topic

Mention a 'landmine' to advise caution in conversations or negotiations.

Conversation Care

It can point out potential problems in personal or professional relationships.

Relationship Hazard

 whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street. They couldn't tell you how they did it, but they could feel cold, they felt a coldness, and they were more often right than wrong. The third is what you might call sympathy, the ability to work within groups.

David Brooks: The social...

 of engagement and principled dialogue. And I believe we need to strengthen this approach in modern diplomacy, not only between states, but also within states. We are seeing some new signs. We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines

Jonas Gahr Støre: In...

 But what we've learned from studying landmines, what we've learned from studying nuclear, is that the journey matters. Just proposing a fossil fuel treaty is creating new conversations and new climate ambition. A fossil fuel treaty will help us wind down

Tzeporah Berman: The bad...

 to thousands in 90 countries around the world, working together in common cause to ban landmines. Some of the people who worked in our campaign could only work maybe an hour a month. They could maybe volunteer that much. There were others, like myself,

Jody Williams: A...

 elephants can smell landmines like rats and dogs that are used to help demine areas then elephants have a very powerful sense of smell so my hunch is and hen and early evidence suggests that elephants can detect landmines

Landmine-Sniffing...

 or his baby as we know that landmines are dangerous for our lives if our odds are able to discover landmines then they save lives I hope that in the future the people of Cambodia will get enough land to - and their life

These Huge Rats Can...

 every ripple, eddy, lily pad and current any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off

How we're saving one of...

 are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because

Finding landmines using...

 extraordinarily rewarding journey, actually - which brought me into training rats to save human lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis. As a child, I had two passions.

Bart Weetjens: How I...

 lives by detecting landmines and tuberculosis as a child I had two passions one was a passion for rodents I had all kinds of rats mice hamsters