Banning Landmines

Author : Jody Williams,Stephen D. Goose,Mary Wareham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073883921

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Banning Landmines by Jody Williams,Stephen D. Goose,Mary Wareham Pdf

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state armed groups. The second half of this book considers the impact of the landmine movement on other issues (such as cluster munitions and disability rights), as well as the extent to which it has contributed to the field of human security. Edited by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and two other long-time leaders of the mine ban movement, Stephen Goose and Mary Wareham, Banning Landmines features contributions by grassroots activists, diplomatic negotiators, mine survivors, arms experts, and human rights defenders. This diverse group of writers at the forefront of the landmine ban movement is well placed to provide insights into this remarkable process, its precedents, and implications for other work and issues.

Author : Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313393976

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Disarming States by Kenneth R. Rutherford Pdf

This book provides a detailed history of the global movement to ban anti-personnel landmines (APL), marking the first case of a successful worldwide civil society movement to end the use of an entire category of weapons. In March 1995, Belgium became the first state to pass a domestic anti-personnel landmine ban. In December 1997, 122 states joined Belgium in signing the comprehensive Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Treaty. The movement to ban landmines became a turning point in global politics that continues to influence policy and strategy decisions regarding weapon use today. Disarming States: The International Movement to Ban Landmines describes how non-government organizations (NGOs) brought the landmine issue to international attention by forming the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The author presents new information gleaned from interviews and intensive research conducted around the world. The critical role of mid-size states—such as Austria, Canada, and Switzerland—recruited to back the movement's goals is examined. The book concludes by examining how NGOs affect the international political agenda, especially in seeking legal prohibitions on weapons and changes in states' behaviors.

Author : Maxwell A. Cameron,Robert J. Lawson,Brian W. Tomlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048761632

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To Walk Without Fear by Maxwell A. Cameron,Robert J. Lawson,Brian W. Tomlin Pdf

To Walk Without Fear is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. It brings together leading academics, senior policy makers, and prominent leaders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to examine and draw lessons from the "Ottawa Process" thatculminated in December 1997 when over 120 states signed a convention to ban the use, sale, and production of landmines.An essay by Nobel laureate Jody Williams and Steve Goose, of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), describes how a global coalition of NGOs led the world toward a ban on landmines, while a chapter by the Canadian diplomats who orchestrated the "Ottawa Process" takes the reader behindthe scenes into the diplomatic arm-wrestling that resulted in Canada's leadership role. International specialists offer assessments of the military utility of mines (retired General Robert Gard), their humanitarian consequences (Alex Vines), the role of the Red Cross (Stuart Maslen), landminevictims (Jerry White and Ken Rutherford), national ban campaigns (including Valerie Warmington and Mary Warham), the problems of mine clearance (Don Hubert), and interpretations of the legal text of the treaty (Thomas Hajnoczi and Deborah Chatsis). Academic specialists analyze the policy process andnegotiations, explore the political economy of mines, identify the implications of the treaty for the development of international humanitarian norms, democratization, and civil society, and Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs (Lloyd Axworthy) draws lessons from the Ottawa Process for other policyissues. The book resulted from an unusual collaboration between universities, governments, and nongovernmental organizations which developed in tandem with the negotiation process itself. Chapters were developed through a series of policy workshops, a seminar series, intensive focus-group discussions withgovernment officials and NGO members, and a "lessons learned" exercise that brought together over 200 NGO and government participants immediately after the signing of the convention. As a result, the book provides a rich source of new information and analyses. It will be both timely and ofenduring value to policy makers interested in drawing lessons from the Ottawa Process, to non-governmental organizations interested in replicating its results in other areas, to academic specialists and students interested in foreign policy and international affairs, and to the general publicseeking an accessible and readable account of one of the most significant global movements in recent years.

Author : Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791483992

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Landmines and Human Security by Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford Pdf

An impressive array of activists, scholars, government officials, journalists, and landmine victims themselves are gathered here to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Organized in the early 1990s, the ICBL is a network of more than one thousand nongovernmental organizations worldwide, working for a global ban on landmines. It was an important force behind the treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines that was signed in Ottawa in 1997, and which led to its being awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, along with its coordinator.

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135447915

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Negotiating Minefields by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. It is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics. It is also a story of effective leadership, of sustained commitment to a cause, of alliances between campaigners and government officials, of a US senator who championed the ban, and of the skilful use of the news media. Despite this monumental effort, the campaign failed to get the United States to sign the treaty. Drawing on extensive internal documents and interviews with US officials and ban campaigners, Sigal tells the story of the in-fighting inside the Clinton administration, in the Pentagon, and within the ban campaign itself that led to this major setback for an otherwise unprecedented, successful global effort. Negotiating Minefields will be of interest to students and scholars of military and strategic studies and politics and international relations.

Author : Jody Williams,Stephen D. Goose,Mary Wareham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742571174

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Banning Landmines by Jody Williams,Stephen D. Goose,Mary Wareham Pdf

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state armed groups. The second half of this book considers the impact of the landmine movement on other issues (such as cluster munitions and disability rights), as well as the extent to which it has contributed to the field of human security. Edited by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and two other long-time leaders of the mine ban movement, Stephen Goose and Mary Wareham, Banning Landmines features contributions by grassroots activists, diplomatic negotiators, mine survivors, arms experts, and human rights defenders. This diverse group of writers at the forefront of the landmine ban movement is well placed to provide insights into this remarkable process, its precedents, and implications for other work and issues.

Author : Louis Maresca,Stuart Casey-Maslen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 6610432678

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The Banning of Anti-personnel Landmines by Louis Maresca,Stuart Casey-Maslen Pdf

The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines and in offering aid to victims of war and internal armed violence. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC in this area from 1955 through 1999, and gives additional commentary on general issues of the methods and means of warfare. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers, and speeches made by its representatives to the international meetings convened to address the mines issue, including the 1995-96 Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the diplomatic meeting which adopted the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines. These documents provide critical insights into the development of international humanitarian law on this issue, and will form the basis for discussions on landmines and other conventional weapons for years to come.

Author : Louis Maresca,Stuart Maslen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139431972

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The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines by Louis Maresca,Stuart Maslen Pdf

The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines and in offering aid to victims of war and internal armed violence. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC in this area from 1955 through 1999, and gives additional commentary on general issues of the methods and means of warfare. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers, and speeches made by its representatives to the international meetings convened to address the mines issue, including the 1995–96 Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the diplomatic meeting which adopted the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines. These documents provide critical insights into the development of international humanitarian law on this issue, and will form a basis for discussions on landmines and other conventional weapons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401204613

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Moral Entrepreneurs and the Campaign to Ban Landmines by Anonim Pdf

This work advances the proposition that traditional ‘top down’ politics is being challenged by grass-roots, civil society based ‘bottom up’ politics in that most sensitive areas, the national security/arms control dichotomy. The book uses the example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), that has succeeded in reversing or altering the national policies on landmines in over 130 countries globally. The book cites the efforts of what the author calls ‘moral entrepreneurs’, that is people who have adopted the risk-taking characteristics of business and social leaders to bring this state of affairs about. As a new polity that challenges old assumptions about the state’s preserve in matters of national security and moral force, the ICBL has set the benchmark for a fresh, twenty-first century paradigm in arms control.

Author : Mike Croll
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844685004

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Landmines in War and Peace by Mike Croll Pdf

Land mines and their antecedents have been used on the battlefield from ancient times, through the world wars, to the modern conflicts in the developing world. Their use in the developing world caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties, and the resulting international outrage transformed rapidly into a highly effective global movement to ban land mines and a multi million dollar mine action business. This book describes how technology and military tactics defined land mine development and deployment, why they are such an effective weapon of war, and how an unlikely alliance of soldiers, peace activists, development workers and celebrities succeeded in banning the use of antipersonnel mines. Comparisons are made between the post WW2 clearance of around 100 million land mines in Europe and contemporary efforts to clear a similar number in the developing world. By 1947 Europe was largely mine free, yet after nearly 20 years and expenditure of $4 billion the land mine crisis in the developing world continues. The elusive search for the easy way to clear mines is described. Despite experiments with machines, airships, rats and explosive clearance methods, mine clearance remains a hazardous, labor-intensive task undertaken by teams of deminers using metal detectors and needle-like probes.

Author : D. Tepe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230355552

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The Myth about Global Civil Society by D. Tepe Pdf

In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788147470

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Second NGO Conference on Landmines by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Land mines
ISBN : UOM:39015078431528

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Landmines by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Vines
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564322068

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Still Killing by Alex Vines Pdf

Momentum for a ban

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1564322505

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Landmine Monitor Report 2000 by Anonim Pdf

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