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

by Bryan McDonald, Bryan McDonald (Editor), Kenneth Rutherford (Editor)

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.

318 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jerry Wall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much work in ridding world of landmines since 1990s. Still much to do. They kill many more civilians than military and main many, many more than they kill, including a good many children.
One of movers to rid us of landmines got nobel peace prize in 1990s.