Download or read book Disarming States written by Kenneth R. Rutherford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book International Law Politics and Inhumane Weapons written by Alan Bryden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines. Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body of related literature, clear understandings have not been established on the effectiveness of these international legal frameworks in meeting the challenges that prompted their creation. This book seeks to address this lacuna. An analytical framework grounded in regime theory helps move beyond the limitations in the current literature through a structured focus on principles, norms, rules, procedures, actors and issue areas. On the one hand, this clarifies how political considerations determine opportunities and constraints in designing and implementing IHL regimes. On the other, it enables us to explore how and why 'ideal' policy prescriptions are threatened when faced with complex challenges in post-conflict contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of international humanitarian law, global governance, human security and IR in general.
Download or read book Landmines written by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10. The future of Landmines
Download or read book Anti Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law A View from the Vanishing Point written by Stuart Maslen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law: A View From the Vanishing Point considers in depth the various customary and conventional legal regimes applicable to the use of anti-personnel mines. All involved with the global effort to control and eliminate anti-personnel mines as well as the policy-makers who are concerned about the devastation resulting from the widespread deployment of these arbitrary weapons need to familiarize themselves with the information presented in this timely volume. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Download or read book The Banning of Anti personnel Landmines written by Louis Maresca and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Banning of Anti Personnel Landmines written by Louis Maresca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Clearing The Fields written by Kevin M. Cahill and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of Congress CiP shows Cahill as author, but he's actually the editor of this collection of articles, of which he wrote two and collaborated on one. The 16 chapters address the terrible problem of land mines, which kill and maim thousands of people every month around the world, with more than 100 million mines currently deployed in over 60 countries. Contributors describe the terrible personal suffering as well as the debilitating medical problems and costs caused by land mines, with analysis of the roots of the problem, solutions, and goals for humanitarian assistance and policy changes. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Landmines and Human Security written by Richard A. Matthew and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-04-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.
Download or read book Landmine Monitor Report 1999 written by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Download or read book The Long Shadow written by Françoise J. Hampson and published by University of Essex Human Rights Centre. This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents.
Download or read book Commentaries on Arms Control Treaties written by Stuart Casey-Maslen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti personnel Land Mines written by David A. Lenarcic and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers material on the control of anti-personnel land mines published between 1990 and August 1996.
Download or read book The Anti Personnel Mine Ban Convention written by Stuart Casey-Maslen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated commentary on the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention addresses international law and State practice on anti-personnel mines under the treaty. It describes the use of anti-personnel mines through to the present day, the destruction of landmine stockpiles, and mine clearance in every affected nation.
Download or read book Negotiating Minefields written by Leon V. Sigal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Landmine Monitor Report written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legality of Landmines Under International Law written by Barbara Gautam-Ott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description and legal analysis of the three treaties (*) and the customary law applying to anti-vehicle and anti-personnel landmines. Emphasis is put on the latest of those treaties, which bans all anti-personnel landmines, and its drafts. Described is also the unique process leading to the coming into the existence of this treaty and the contribution of the NGOs thereto.
