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2020-01-01

Antipersonnel landmines in the Colombian internal conflict: implications for technology development

Minas Antipersonales en el conflicto interno colombiano: implicaciones para el desarrollo de tecnología

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https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v87n212.79271

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Humanitarian Demining, Internal Conflict, Metal detector, landmine, Ground Penetrating Radar (en)
Desminado humanitario, Conflicto interno, Detector de metal, Mina terrestre, Radar de penetración de suelos (es)

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The effort of universities, companies, and the state in Colombia to face home-made AP landmines has generated useful solutions and studies for many projects developed in the last decade, including demining processes in Colombia. Antipersonnel mines have changed in the last 15 years, due to the intermittent nature of our internal conflict. For example, as Descontamina Colombia mentions on its website, non-state armed groups cut the detonator containing the primary explosive to decrease the metal in the mine. This paper shows the aspects of the conflict that have affected humanitarian demining in Colombia, which help in the design and construction of technological devices. This article does not attempt to describe each of the typical technologies in humanitarian demining processes, but rather to show the characteristics considered in the design of two detection devices aimed at detecting home-made AP landmines.

El esfuerzo de universidades, empresas y el estado en Colombia para enfrentar las minas AP caseras ha generado soluciones y estudios útiles a muchos proyectos desarrollados en la última década, incluso procesos de desminado en Colombia. Las minas antipersonales cambiaron en los últimos 15 años, debido a la intermitencia de nuestro conflicto interno. Por ejemplo, como lo menciona la Dirección de Acción contra las Minas en su página web, los grupos armados no estatales recortan el detonador que contiene el explosivo primario para disminuir el metal en la mina. Este documento muestra los aspectos del conflicto que han afectado al desminado humanitario en Colombia, los cuales ayudan al diseño y construcción de dispositivos tecnológicos. Este artículo no pretende describir cada una de las tecnologías típicas en procesos de desminado humanitario, sino mostrar las características consideradas en el diseño de dos dispositivos de detección orientados a la detección de minas AP.

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