Oh, I have no presumptions about the macro-rationality of donor assistance!
It does seem to me there are some aspects in which demining may have a certain "strategic" significance. Given the frequency with which transport routes, abandoned housing, economic infrastructure, etc. is mined, demining becomes essential for a range of related imperatives (refugee return, agricultural production, economic growth). Moreover, mines and UXO can be a major source of explosives, and so there is a military/counterterrorism implication here too.
None of which invalidates looking at IEDs as posing different sorts of challenges, as you propose to do.
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