Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy

by Richard A. Matthew (Editor), Bryan McDonald (Editor), Kenneth R. Rutherford (Editor), Her Majesty Queen Noor (Foreword by), The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy (Foreword by)

Overview

Recounts and evaluates the worldwide effort to ban landmines.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791483992
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Series:	SUNY series in Global Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	996 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Richard A. Matthew is Associate Professor of International and Environmental Politics and Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California at Irvine. Bryan McDonald is Assistant Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California at Irvine. Kenneth R. Rutherford is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southwest Missouri State University and cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network.

Table of Contents

Forewords

Her Majesty Queen Noor
The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy
Lady Heather Mills McCartney and Sir Paul McCartney
Senator Patrick Leahy

Acknowledgments


PART I: THE GLOBAL LANDMINE CRISIS


1. Human Security and the Mine Ban Movement I: Introduction
Richard A. Matthew


2. The Global Landmine Crisis in the 1990s
Bryan McDonald


3. Evaluating the Impacts of the Ottawa Treaty
Leah Fraser


PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON THE MINE BAN MOVEMENT


4. Nongovernmental Organizations and the Landmine Ban
Kenneth R. Rutherford


5. Clearing the Path to a Mine-Free World: Implementing the Ottawa Convention
Kerry Brinkert and Kevin Hamilton


6. Europe and the Ottawa Treaty: Compliance with Exceptions and Loopholes
Paul Chamberlain and David Long


7. Perspective from a Mine-Affected Country: Mozambique
Carlos dos Santos


8. Victim Assistance: Landmine Survivors’ Perspectives
Raquel Willerman


PART III: RELATED ISSUES: DEMINING AND VICTIM ASSISTANCE


9. Political Minefield
Michael J. Flynn


10. Tackling the Global Landmine Problem: The United States Perspective
Stacy Bernard Davis and Donald F. "Pat" Patierno


11. Demining: Enhancing the Process
Colin King


12. Public–Private Demining Partnerships: A Case Study of Afghanistan
Oren J. Schlein


13. Landmines Prolong Conflicts and Impede Socioeconomic Development
Nay Htun


14. The Victim Assistance Provision of the Mine Ban Treaty
Glenna L. Fak


15. The Environmental Impacts of Landmines
Claudio Torres Nachón


16. A Necessary Evil?: Reexamining the Military Utility of Antipersonnel Landmines
Ted Gaulin


17. Are Landmines Still Needed to Defend South Korea?: A Mine Use Case Study
J. Antonio Ohe


PART IV: IMPLICATIONS OF THE MINE BAN MOVEMENT


18. The Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Landmines: Potential Lessons
Stephen Goose and Jody Williams


19. The Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Landmines and Global Civil Society
Paul Wapner


20. Human Security and the Mine Ban Movement II: Conclusions
Richard A. Matthew


Contributors


Index


SUNY Series in Global Politics

Editorial Reviews

"There are important lessons to be learned, and Landmines and Human Security gives us the tools to apply these lessons as we move forward, both to universalize the Ottawa Treaty and to meet other challenges in today's dangerous and complex world."

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