Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament
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
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Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament
Matthew Breay Bolton · Sarah Njeri · Taylor Benjamin-Britton Editors
Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament
Editors Matthew Breay Bolton Department of Political Science Pace University New York, NY, USA
Sarah Njeri Africa Leadership Centre King’s College London London, UK
Taylor Benjamin-Britton Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-27610-2 ISBN 978-3-030-27611-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27611-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © kenkuza/shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
The Emergence of Humanitarian Disarmament and Its Impact on Weapons and Violence When we built the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) in the early 1990s, we were responding to a humanitarian crisis resulting from the use of antipersonnel landmines in the regions of the world where the two superpowers had fought proxy wars during the Cold War. It was primarily civilians who were maimed or killed by those indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction in slow motion, as we came to call them in the ICBL. Once these wars ended, the landmines remained where they had been sown and all casualties were civilian. Not surprisingly, landmine survivors became some of the ICBL’s most powerful advocates for a treaty banning landmines. The ICBL was broad, deep, and creative and we partnered with a core group of proban governments and the International Committee of the Red Cross to bypass the ineffective efforts to deal with landmines within the UN and negotiate a ban treaty in a stand-alone process. The work of the ICBL demonstrated th
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