Banning Landmines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Banning Landmines write by Jody Williams. This book was released on 2008. Banning Landmines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2001-04-21. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The History of Landmines
The History of Landmines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Landmines write by Mike Croll. This book was released on 1998. The History of Landmines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
After the Guns Fall Silent
After the Guns Fall Silent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Guns Fall Silent write by Shawn Roberts. This book was released on 1995-01-01. After the Guns Fall Silent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Years after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee movement and resettlement and on the environment. It also investigates mine clearance and mine awareness and medical, rehabilitative and psychological costs. Using original research, the report uses case studies from countries including Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Scholarly and accurate analysis combines with people's own words and real personal stories to present a detailed evaluation of the effect of this most potent of weapons. This work is published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and distributed in the UK and Ireland by Oxfam.
Landmines and Human Security
Landmines and Human Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landmines and Human Security write by Richard A. Matthew. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Landmines and Human Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
