Landmines and Human Security
International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy
Published on 1. January 2006
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Paperback/Softback
318 pages
978-0-7914-6310-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Annotated edition
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
376 gr
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978-0-7914-6310-9 (9780791463109)
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International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy
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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.
Content
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 Nachon
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
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 Nachon
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