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In this week’s special edition of the This Week in Global Development podcast, we spotlight the Mines Advisory Group, or MAG, recipient of the 2025 Hilton Humanitarian Prize — the world’s largest annual humanitarian award. MAG’s work clearing land mines and unexploded ordnance has saved lives and restored livelihoods in post-conflict communities for more than three decades.
In a special episode sponsored by the Hilton Foundation, Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar speaks with MAG CEO Darren Cormack about what the $3 million unrestricted prize means for the organization, the growing risks civilians face from land mines in conflicts such as Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan, and how new technologies —from drones to artificial intelligence — are helping speed up mine clearance.
Cormack reflects on rising global conflict levels, threats to international humanitarian law, and why mine action remains both a moral and developmental imperative — enabling farmers to work safely, children to return to school, and displaced people to rebuild their lives.
To hear more, listen to this conversation with Darren Cormack on This Week in Global Development.
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