Unexploded ordnance collected from a military base in Libya, 2011
Images of conflict flash on to our television screens every day: mine clearers treading gingerly in front of troops in Afghanistan, government and militia forces street-fighting in Syria, streams of internally displaced people trying to escape fighting between different factions.
And when the fighting stops and a fragile peace is established, the media correspondents and film crews pack up and move on to their next assignment. The media attention, and with it much of the general public’s collective concern, soon evaporate when the violence stops. But this is where the real challenge of development begins.
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