Suchergebnisse

1. The design, implementation and effectiveness of global landmine regimes -- 2. Regimes prohibiting the use in war of poison gas and dum dum bullets -- 3. The emergence of the landmine regimes -- 4. Implementing the landmine regimes -- 5. Humanitarian demining -- 6. Stockpile destruction -- 7. The effectiveness of global landmine regimes.

Anti-personnel land mines scattered indiscriminately throughout Angola by both sides during three decades of conflict have caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties in violation of international law. Africa Watch charges that land mines have rendered large areas of arable land and pasture, many roads, bridges, riverbanks, villages, and some important economic installations unfit for people. While efforts have been made to undo some of this damage, the renewed fighting since the disputed September 1992 elections is increased cause for concern. The experience of Angola has shown that attempts to restrict the use of land mines have failed, and that anti-personnel land mines present a serious and long-term threat to civilians, far in excess of any short-term military advantage that may be gained. (DÜI-Hff)

Landmines and unexploded ordnance remain a devastating problem in many countries, and yet the reduction in the use of landmines, and the clean-up of past landmine use, represents a successful international effort, within which the United Nations and its agencies have played a vital role. to continue its global mine action programme. This evaluation is a timely assessment of direct and immediate relevance to UNDP programming

"Contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhuman weapons, such as landmines. Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body of related literature, clear understandings have not been established on the effectiveness of these international legal frameworks in meeting the challenges that prompted their creation. This book seeks to address this lacuna. An analytical framework grounded in regime theory helps move beyond the limitations in the current literature through a structured focus on principles, norms, rules, procedures, actors and issue areas. On the one hand, this clarifies how political considerations determine opportunities and constraints in designing and implementing IHL regimes. On the other, it enables us to explore how, and why, 'ideal' policy prescriptions are threatened when faced with complex challenges in post-conflict contexts"--Page i

Intro -- LANDMINES AND HUMAN SECURITY -- Contents -- Forewords -- HER MAJESTY QUEEN NOOR -- THE HONORABLE LLOYD AXWORTHY -- LADY HEATHER MILLS MCCARTNEY AND SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY -- SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Global Landmine Crisis -- 1. Human Security and the Mine Ban Movement I: Introduction by RICHARD A. MATTHEW -- 2. The Global Landmine Crisis in the 1990s by BRYAN MCDONALD -- 3. Evaluating the Impacts of the Ottawa Treaty by LEAH FRASER -- Part II: Perspectives on the Mine Ban Movement -- 4. Nongovernmental Organizations and the Landmine Ban by KENNETH R. RUTHERFORD -- 5. Clearing the Path to a Mine-Free World: Implementing the Ottawa Convention by KERRY BRINKERT AND KEVIN HAMILTON -- 6. Europe and the Ottawa Treaty: Compliance with Exceptions and Loopholes by PAUL CHAMBERLAIN AND DAVID LONG -- 7. Perspective from a Mine-Affected Country: Mozambique by CARLOS DOS SANTOS -- 8. Victim Assistance: Landmine Survivors' Perspectives by RAQUEL WILLERMAN -- Part III: Related Issues: Demining and Victim Assistance -- 9. Political Minefield by MICHAEL J. FLYNN -- 10. Tackling the Global Landmine Problem: The United States Perspective by STACY BERNARD DAVIS AND DONALD F. "PAT" PATIERNO -- 11. Demining: Enhancing the Process by COLIN KING -- 12. Public-Private Demining Partnerships: A Case Study of Afghanistan by OREN J. SCHLEIN -- 13. Landmines Prolong Conflicts and Impede Socioeconomic Development by NAY HTUN -- 14. The Victim Assistance Provision of the Mine Ban Treaty by GLENNA L. FAK -- 15. The Environmental Impacts of Landmines by CLAUDIO TORRES NACHÓN -- 16. A Necessary Evil?: Reexamining the Military Utility of Antipersonnel Landmines by TED GAULIN -- 17. Are Landmines Still Needed to Defend South Korea?: A Mine Use Case Study by J. ANTONIO OHE -- Part IV: Implications of the Mine Ban Movement.