Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742571174
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 03/20/2008
Series: National State Papers (rl
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 348
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Jody Williams is a Nobel Peace laureate and a founder and chair of the Nobel WomenOs Initiative. A distinguished visiting professor at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work since 2003, she currently holds the Cele and Sam Keeper endowed professorship in peace and social justice. Williams was the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), and she has served as an ICBL ambassador since 1998. Steve Goose is executive director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. He has played critical roles in securing the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel mines, the 1995 protocol banning blinding laser weapons, and the 2003 protocol on explosive remnants of war. Goose has served as the head of delegation for the ICBL to every Mine Ban Treaty meeting since 1998, and he helped create ICBL's civil society monitoring initiative, Landmine Monitor. Mary Wareham is advocacy director of Oxfam New Zealand. She was part of the team that spearhead the movement to secure the international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel mines in 1997, and she went on to oversee the creation of the highly acclaimed Landmine Monitor research initiative by the ICBL and make an award-winning documentary film entitled Disarm.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2
Chapter 1. Banning Landmines and Beyond
Chapter 3
Chapter I. Banning Landmines
Chapter 4
Chapter 2. A Beacon of Light: The Mine Ban Treaty since 1997
Chapter 5
Chapter 3. Still Alive and Kicking: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Chapter 6
Chapter 4. Evidence-Based Advocacy: Civil Society Monitoring of the Mine Ban Treaty
Chapter 7
Chapter 5. Surround the Cities with the Villages: Universalization of the Mine Ban Treaty
Chapter 8
Chapter 6. An Emphasis on Action: The Mine Ban Treaty's Implementation Mechanisms
Chapter 9
Chapter 7. Goodwill Yields Good Results: Cooperative Compliance and the Mine Ban Treaty
Chapter 10
Chapter 8. An Indispensable Tool: The Mine Ban Treat and Mine Action
Chapter 11
Chapter 9. Beyond the Rhetoric: The Mine Ban Treaty and Victim Assistance
Chapter 12
Chapter 10. Outside the Treaty not the Norm: Non-State Armed Actors and the Landmine Ban
Chapter 13
Chapter II. Beyond Landmines
Chapter 14
Chapter 11. Citizen Diplomacy and the Ottawa Process: A Lasting Model?
Chapter 15
Chapter 12. Unacceptable Behavior: How Norms are Established
Chapter 16
Chapter 13. Cluster Munitions in the Crosshairs: In Pursuit of a Prohibition
Chapter 17
Chapter 14. Nothing About Us Without Us: Securing the Disability Rights Convention
Chapter 18
Chapter 15. Tackling Disarmament Challenges
Chapter 19
Chapter 16. New Approaches in a Changing World: The Human Security Agenda
Chapter 20 Appendix. 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and Its Status

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Desmond Tutu

The book considers how we might better approach our global problems in an increasingly intertwined world where overlooking even the most basic needs of the many threatens the security of us all.

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