This report was researched and written by Andrew Cooper, a Research Assistant for the Human Rights Watch Arms Project, and edited by Stephen Goose, Program Director for the Arms Project. We are grateful for research assistance and advice provided by: Mary Wareham (Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines), Jody Williams (VVAF and coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines), Tom O'Donnell (office of Rep. Lane Evans), Tim Rieser (office of Senator Patrick Leahy), V.A. Fontana (Tecnovar Italiana S.R.L.), Lora Lumpe (Federation of American Scientists), Nicoletta Dentico (ManiTese), Dennis Grzezinski (Atlantic States Legal Foundation), Paul Murphy (Eagle Eye Publishing), Laura Olah (Wisconsin Citizens for Safe Water), Rosemary Filou (U.S. Department of Justice), and The James Mintz Group, Inc.
Specific funding for this report was generously provided by Rädda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children). The Arms Project also gratefully acknowledges funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, and Ruth Mott Fund.