Landmines and Human Security - International Politics and War''s Hidden Legacy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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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• Authors: Richard A. Mcdonald Matthew
• Assisted by: Richard A Matthew (Editor), Richard A. Matthew (Editor), Bryan Mcdonald (Editor), Kenneth R Rutherford (Editor), Kenneth R. Rutherford (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780791463093
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6309-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: SUNY Series in Global Politics; SUNY Series in Global Politics; Suny Global Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education