NGOs
Email: landmine@balamand.edu.lb
Address: Habbouba Aoun, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Balamand, P.O. Box 166378, Ashrafieh, Beirut 1100 2807, Lebanon
Phone: +961-1 562108/9
Fax: +961-1 562110
The Landmines Resource Center for Lebanon was established in 1997 at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Balamand. The Landmines Resource Center in Lebanon (LMRC) aims at lasting improvement in the lives of those affected by mines. It advocates prevention, rehabilitation and social reintegration in the context of a comprehensive concept of reconstruction and development. Valuable and important technical interventions such as mine clearance and the provision of prosthetics are provided; however, rebuilding the lives of survivors and of families of those killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance and developing affected societies has to consider the necessity of readjusting the relationship between the individual and the social, cultural and physical environment in order to provide a qualitative and sustainable improvement in living conditions, a prerequisite to sustainable development. The LMRC works on local capacity building, needs assessment, data gathering and analysis and dissemination of information, including what relates to international charters and humanitarian laws, mine awareness and victim assistance. In addition, it is actively involved in providing and mobilizing support to the demining and mine action initiatives by the National Demining Office of the Lebanese Army.