About Us

Paul Hannon

Paul Hannon is the Executive Director of Mines Action Canada (MAC), the Canadian member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. MAC is a coalition of over 40 Canadian development, faith, health, peace, relief, social justice, and disabled peoples’ support organizations. MAC has worked domestically and internationally to build government support for bans on landmines and cluster munitions.

Hannon became MAC’s Executive Director in July 1998. He represents MAC on the governance structures of both the ICBL and Cluster Munition Coalition, and is head of the lead agency responsible for the ICBL and CMC’s Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor initiative.

Hannon brought to the campaign 15 years of experience with the Canadian development sector including working and consulting with Africa Emergency Aid, AlterNET Communications, Canadian Council for International Cooperation, International Development Research Centre, Mozambique Task Force, Oxfam Canada, the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Fund , and Partnership Africa Canada. He has also worked for the Canadian federal government and a major Canadian financial institution.

In 2002 he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.

Location: Ottawa, Canada
Language: English

Stephen Goose

Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division and a general expert on arms, has been at the forefront of international efforts to address the humanitarian dangers of cluster munitions, helping to bring about the Convention on Cluster Munitions agreed in Dublin in May 2008. Goose and Human Rights Watch were instrumental in bringing about the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the 1995 protocol banning blinding lasers, the 2003 protocol on explosive remnants of war, and the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. He and Human Rights Watch co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1993, Goose was a staff member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and a researcher at the Center for Defense Information. He has a master's degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in History from Vanderbilt University.

Location: Washington, DC, USA
Language: English

Richard Moyes

Richard Moyes is Director of Policy and Research at Landmine Action, a British NGO, and is one of the Co-Chairs of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), the umbrella group for more than 300 civil society organizations working for a ban on cluster munitions.

Since he began working with Landmine Action and the CMC in 2005, Moyes has produced and supervised research on the impact of cluster munitions and the history of the political failings that allowed these problems to continue unabated.

Before working for Landmine Action, Moyes worked in project coordination and program management for Mines Advisory Group. He has also conducted detailed field research examining risk-taking behavior in communities living with landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive remnants of war.

Moyes also represents Landmine Action as a member of the Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor Editorial Board.

Location: Exeter, United Kingdom
Language: English

Stuart Casey-Maslen

Stuart Casey-Maslen, an international lawyer specializing in the effects of conventional weaponry, works with Norwegian People’s Aid as Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor’s mine action editor. He holds a doctorate in international humanitarian law from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He has worked as a consultant for the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining on various aspects of mine action for eight years and previously as an advisor on landmines to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and UNICEF in New York and Geneva.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Languages: English, French

Atle Karlsen

Atle Karlsen represents Norwegian People's Aid on the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor Editorial Board. He has 15 years of experience in organizational and institutional capacity-building, program management, and development interventions. His landmine-related expertise is in strategic planning, quality assurance, and land release. Karlsen spent three years as Norwegian People's Aid's Regional Representative for southern Africa.

Location: Oslo, Norway
Languages: English, Norwegian