Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2017
190 pages
979-8-216-31415-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a leading humanitarian actor, addresses the problem of weapons. A triangulation of strategies such as testimonialization, medicalization and legalization, are investigated, with the help of critical security studies literature, to cultivate an understanding of an effects based approach to weapons. The attempt here is not only to introduce some innovative, conceptual tools but also to provide a coherent and critical narrative of the experiences of the ICRC vis-à-vis states to regulate and prohibit weapons. This experiential account of the ICRC's engagement with the problem of weapons is significant as it produces an empowering, alternative discourse making visible subjugated knowledge in the field of arms control and disarmament.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 BW Photos
ISBN-13
979-8-216-31415-8 (9798216314158)
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Ritu Mathur
Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control
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10/2017
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Ritu Mathur is assistant professor at University of Texas at San Antonio.
Content
List of IllustrationsPreface & AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: Disarmament as Humanitarian Action?
Chapter 2: Testimonialization and Weapons ControlChapter 3: Medicalization and Weapons ControlChapter 4: Legalization and Weapons ControlChapter 5: An Effects Based Approach to Weapons
Bibliography
About the Author
Chapter 2: Testimonialization and Weapons ControlChapter 3: Medicalization and Weapons ControlChapter 4: Legalization and Weapons ControlChapter 5: An Effects Based Approach to Weapons
Bibliography
About the Author
