Overview
The Group of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) took place on 9-10 September 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
On 16 June 2025, the CCW Implementation Support Unit circulated an aide-mémoire providing information on attending the 2025 Group of Experts of Amended Protocol II.
Participants at the meeting are invited to read and familiarize themselves with the Code of Conduct to prevent harassment, including sexual harassment, at UN system events.
The meeting is broadcasted live on UN Web TV:
Documents
Provisional programme of work (26 August 2025)
Setting the scene: The threat of IED and new types of IED
-Ms. Niamh Gillen, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), IEDs: A Decade of Harm - Trends, Themes and Global Patterns
-Lt. Col. Benjamin Howard, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), IEDs: Threat Overview and Developments
-Lt. Col. Ricardo Ariel Mella, Argentina, IEDs: Context and Environments (in Spanish)
Methods of Clearance
-Mr. Matt Wilson, Fondation suisse de déminage (FSD), Methods of clearance in humanitarian settings
-Lt. Col. Harald Schmittgall, Germany, IED clearance in urban environment: challenges and technology
-Lt. Col. Bruno Espéré and Cdt. Thierry Cherbuy, France, Digital innovation in demining training: opportunities, limitations and perspectives
-Mr. Clément Meynier, Mines Advisory Group (MAG), Lessons Learned from Urban IED Clearance
-Ms. Radwa Rabie, GICHD, IEDs and Innovation
Protection of Civilians: risk education and other methods
-Ms. Héloïse Pihery, Humanity & Inclusion (HI), HI’s Comprehensive Approach to Armed Violence Reduction: An enabler to unlock the path to recovery
-Mr. Hamid Ibrahimi, GICHD, IED Risk Education: Insights from the Sahel and Technical Guidance
-Dr. Hannah Wild, Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective, Emergency Care for IED Victims in Low-Resource Settings
Relevant developments in other fora
-Ms. Jean Munro, Advisor on Gender, GICHD, Women, Peace and Security and the CCW: Advancing Inclusive Responses to IED Threat
-Mr. Ralf Wagner, World Customs Organization (WCO), Programme Global Shield – Project GLOBAL
-Ms. Jennifer Cavenagh, Australia, 10th Anniversary of the UNGA Resolution ‘Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices’
National and regional responses
-Air Brigadier Gen. Wendwaoga Kere, National Arms Control Commission, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso and the problem of IEDs (in French)
-Mr. Theò Bajon, UNIDIR, National and Regional Approaches to Counter the Multifaceted Threats Posed by IEDs
-Mr. Paul Amoroso, Small Arms Survey, Methodology for the Development of National IED Threat Pictures
-Col. Jean Héribert Nko’o Nko’o, Ministry of Defense, Cameroon, Cameroon’s responses to the threat of IEDs (in French)
