Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice
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Publisher: Monitor
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0973895543
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Publisher: Monitor
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0973895543
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Publisher: Monitor
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Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geetanjali Mukherjee
Publisher: Dreamcatcher Books
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 141
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the events leading up to the cluster munitions ban and the provisions of the treaty, and assesses the progress made towards a world without the presence of cluster munitions. Cluster bombs are weapons that are small but deadly. They often look like small metal canisters, and some of them are painted, giving them the innocuous appearance of a soda can. The unexploded submunitions that are scattered on the ground, in effect, act as landmines, that can kill or severely injure anyone who comes across them, sometimes even years and decades later. It has been reported that 98% of all casualties of cluster munitions are civilians, of which one-third are children. Cluster munitions have been used in numerous conflicts since the Second World War, and it has been estimated that at least 1 billion submunitions were stockpiled globally. For decades, humanitarian organizations sought to limit the use of these weapons, but international consensus on the issue was hard to come by. The campaign to ban cluster munitions faced a monumental and nearly impossible task – to convince governments to agree to stop using a valuable weapon in their arsenals that they stockpiled by the hundreds of thousands, in a political climate where the interests of national security and state sovereignty outweighed humanitarian concerns in almost every instance. However, where many international agreements failed and diplomatic processes stalled, the campaign to ban cluster munitions succeeded. Despite strong opposition from many countries, 107 countries met in Dublin in May 2008 to negotiate and adopt a treaty prohibiting the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. The outcome of the Oslo Process was a ray of hope among the usual cynicism and disenchantment of similar international processes. This book explores this question: how was this accomplished, and are there any wider lessons to be learned from it?
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Publisher: Human Rights Watch
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Total Pages: 75
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Publisher: Monitor
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Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0973895594
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Publisher: Monitor
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Total Pages: 1274
ISBN-13: 0973895551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gro Nystuen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-10-21
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 0199599009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a commentary on the legislation around the use of cluster munitions in warfare.--
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicole Matthews
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317688244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy, this book challenges policymakers, professionals, and researchers to reimagine how they find out about and respond to people’s daily lives and experiences of health, disability, and well-being. The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to digital stories through a series of carefully selected international case studies, from dementia care education to campaigns in the UN to ban cluster munitions. The case studies explore and illuminate different ways that digital stories have – and have not – been listened to in the past. The authors expose the great potential as well as the complexity of using powerful personal stories in practice. Together, the case studies highlight that processes of listening to, learning from, and making use of digital stories involve unavoidable processes of reinterpretation, recontextualisation, and translation which have significant ethical and political implications for storytellers, listeners, and society. In mapping and theorising the movement of stories into new contexts of policy and practice, the book offers a critical lens on the widely celebrated democratising potential of digital storytelling and its capacity to amplify marginalised voices. Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy develops an authoritative and original re-conceptualisation of digital life stories and their use for social justice ends, and will be important reading for researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds, including social policy, digital media, communication, education, disability, and public health.