Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament - 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 Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament write by Matthew Breay Bolton. This book was released on 2019-10-31. Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the politics of the humanitarian disarmament community—a loose coalition of activist and advocacy groups, humanitarian agencies and diplomats—who have successfully achieved international treaties banning landmines, cluster munitions and nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade. Two campaigns have won Nobel Peace Prizes. Disarmament has long been a dirty word in the international relations lexicon. But the success of the humanitarian disarmament agenda shows that people often choose to prohibit or limit certain violent technologies, for reasons of security, honour, ethics or humanitarianism. This edited volume showcases interdisciplinary research by scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the dynamics and impact of the new global activism on weapons. While some raise concerns that humanitarian disarmament may be piecemeal and depoliticizing, others see opportunities to breathe new life into moribund arms control policymaking. Foreword by 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams.
Humanitarian Disarmament
Humanitarian Disarmament - 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 Humanitarian Disarmament write by Treasa Moira Dunworth. This book was released on 2020. Humanitarian Disarmament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book argues that the humanitarian framing of disarmament is not a novel development, but rather represents a re-emergence of a much older and long-standing sensibility of humanitarianism in disarmament. It rejects the 'big bang' theory that presents the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997, and its successors -- the Convention on Cluster Munitions 2008, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017 -- as a paradigm shift from an older traditional state-centric approach towards a more progressive humanitarian approach. It shows how humanitarian disarmament has a long and complex history, which includes these treaties. This book further argues that the attempt to locate the birth of humanitarian disarmament in these treaties is part of the attempt to cleanse humanitarian disarmament of politics, presenting humanitarianism as a morally superior discourse in disarmament. However, humanitarianism carries its own blind spots and has its own hegemonic leanings. It may be silencing other potentially more transformative discourses." -- Front matter.
Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations
Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations - 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 Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations write by Matthew Breay Bolton. This book was released on 2019-08-03. Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the global politics of disarmament through emerging international relations (IR) theories of discourse and imagination. Each chapter reflects on an aspect of contemporary activism on weapons through an analogous story from literary tradition. Shahrazade, convenor of the 1001 Nights, offers a potent metaphor for the humanitarian advocacy seeking to moderate the behaviour of violent people. The author reads Don Quixote in Cambodia’s minefields, reflects on Lysistrata at Greenham Common and considers how tropes in The Tempest were enrolled in both Pacific nuclear testing and efforts to resist it. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in communities affected by weapons and disarmament advocacy at the UN and calls for a re-enchantment of IR, alive to affect, ritual and myth.
Disarmament as Humanitarian Action
Disarmament as Humanitarian Action - 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 Disarmament as Humanitarian Action write by John Borrie. This book was released on 2006. Disarmament as Humanitarian Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In post-conflict situations, the success of humanitarian efforts is closely linked to the effectiveness of multilateral disarmament efforts, and both would benefit from a greater understanding of human security issues. This publication sets out case studies of humanitarian approaches that have had, or could have, a positive impact on disarmament processes. Cases studies included cover negotiations on anti-personnel mines, explosive remnants of war (ERW) and small arms, as well as emerging issues relating to gender and human security.
Confronting the Bomb
Confronting the Bomb - 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 Confronting the Bomb write by Lawrence S. Wittner. This book was released on 2009-05-12. Confronting the Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign—the largest social movement of modern times—challenged the nuclear priorities of the great powers and, ultimately, thwarted their nuclear ambitions. Based on massive research in the files of peace and disarmament organizations and in formerly top secret government records, extensive interviews with antinuclear activists and government officials, and memoirs and other published materials, Confronting the Bomb opens a unique window on one of the most important issues of the modern era: survival in the nuclear age. It covers the entire period of significant opposition to the bomb, from the final stages of the Second World War up to the present. Along the way, it provides fascinating glimpses of the interaction of key nuclear disarmament activists and policymakers, including Albert Einstein, Harry Truman, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Cousins, Nikita Khrushchev, Bertrand Russell, Andrei Sakharov, Linus Pauling, Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan, John F. Kennedy, Randy Forsberg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helen Caldicott, E.P. Thompson, and Ronald Reagan. Overall, however, it is a story of popular mobilization and its effectiveness.
