Included among measures being examined to alleviate the humanitarian suffering caused by explosive remnants of war, is the need to provide risk education and warnings to civilian populations. This report aims to provide background for States Parties involved in these discussions under the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The report discusses the aims of risk education, who should provide it and what should be provided. It focuses on the particular problems of ERW and the differences between warnings and risk education, and suggests what appropriate responses should be. The report provides numerous examples from the field as illustrations, before concluding with lessons learned based on operational experience.