Landmines and Human Security
Landmines and Human Security:
International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy
Edited by Richard A. Matthew, Bryan L. McDonald and Kenneth R. Rutherford
Forwards by Her Majesty Queen Noor, The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy, Lady Heather Mills McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney
Summary
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.
Endorsements
"This volume charts how a diverse group of individuals with no common affiliation or political interest other than their collective cause, using modern networking and communications, can bring about social change. In documenting this alone, this volume has done great service."
- Journal of Peace Research
"This dramatic account of the mine ban movement, which arose with unparalleled speed to touch so many lives, is both a model study in effective coalition activism and a moving story that will inspire anyone who seeks to make our world a more humane, just, and safe place for all who share it."
- from the Foreword by Her Majesty Queen Noor
"Landmines and Human Security brings together the diverse insights and experiences of nongovernmental leaders, politicians, civil servants, academics, and landmine survivors to tell the story of the ICBL, to assess its impact, to reflect on its lessons, and to remind us of the challenges that remain in addressing the global landmine crisis."
- from the Foreword by Lady Heather Mills McCartney and Sir Paul McCartney
"There are important lessons to be learned, and Landmines and Human Security gives us the tools to apply these lessons as we move forward, both to universalize the Ottawa Treaty and to meet other challenges in today's dangerous and complex world."
- from the Foreword by Senator Patrick Leahy
Contributors
The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy, Kerry Brinkert, Paul Chamberlain, Stacy Bernard Davis, Carlos dos Santos, Glenna L. Fak, Michael J. Flynn, Leah Fraser, Ted Gaulin, Stephen Goose, Kevin Hamilton, Nay Htun, Colin King, Senator Patrick Leahy, David Long, Richard A. Matthew, Lady Heather Mills McCartney and Sir Paul McCartney, Bryan McDonald, Claudio Torres Nachón, Her Majesty Queen Noor, J. Antonio Ohe, Donald F. "Pat" Patierno, Kenneth R. Rutherford, Oren J. Schlein, Paul Wapner, Raquel Willerman, and Jody Williams.
About the Editors
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 L. 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.