Landmine Clearance International (LCI) is a non-profit organization that promotes permanent solutions to the economic, environmental, and societal problems caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance. Unlike other challenges that face countries emerging from war, the threat of landmines is one that can be independently confronted by local people. Every LCI project is predicated on the belief that the international community can contribute its resources most effectively by teaching and by working in concert with local people to create an indigenous mine clearance capacity.

The highly publicized 1997 "Ottawa Convention" ostensibly prevents future use of landmines through international legislation, and may prove to be a successful anti-landmine initiative. Working to prevent the future use of landmines and caring for those injured by them, as a number of groups work to do, is critical and has received some attention in recent years. However, it is absolutely essential not to continue to overlook the challenge posed by the estimated 60 million landmines in the ground already. Even if no more mines are ever placed, and current programs continue apace, no one who is alive today will live long enough to see a world that is free of landmines. For that reason, LCI is building a structured system to implement many of the most promising innovations in landmine clearance to improve efficiency without sacrificing efficacy or safety.