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Author: Stuart Maslen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199296798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of the principles of treaty interpretation is provided for non-specialists, and extensive source material, including the various drafts of the Convention, are included as appendixes.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-04-21
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0309073499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.
Author: Stuart Casey-Maslen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0192882635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated commentary on the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention addresses international law and State practice on anti-personnel mines under the treaty. It describes the use of anti-personnel mines through to the present day, the destruction of landmine stockpiles, and mine clearance in every affected nation.
Author: 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.--
Author: Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781564321138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK10. The future of Landmines
Author: Harald Muller
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0820344230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Efforts to create or maintain rules to contain the risks stemming from an unrestrained multilateral arms race are at the core of a world order based on consensual norms rather than on a pure balance of power. Whereas security cooperation is conventionally considered to be motivated primarily by interest- and security-based factors, studies have shown that all actors use moral arguments and are deeply embedded in the normative patterns surrounding their realm of action. Norm Dynamics in Multilateral ArmsControl, based on research conducted by a large PRIF team led by Harald M
Author: Andreas Zimmermann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 2033
ISBN-13: 0192855115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the cornerstones of international refugee law. This Commentary provides a systematic, article-by-article analysis of their provisions in addition to crosscutting thematic chapters. The Commentary is an indispensable tool for lawyers, decision-makers, and academics.
Author: Ian Mansfield
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781925275520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIan Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. With millions of refugees expected to return to Afghanistan, the United Nations saw a humanitarian crisis looming and requested help from Western countries to tackle the landmine problem. In September 1991, Ian, along with his wife and two young children, left Australia on a one-year assignment ... and didn't return home for 20 years. This highly personal account recalls Ian's pioneering efforts to set up a civilian program in Afghanistan to clear landmines for humanitarian purposes, and then his decision to leave the Australian Army and join the United Nations. He continued to work in the mine-action sector, setting up programs in Laos and Bosnia, and then working at the policy level at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Stepping into a Minefield highlights the dangers and the tragedies involved in landmine clearance, but also reveals the great humanity, dedication and humor of the thousands of brave men and women clearing landmines today. It also outlines the political, cultural and security 'minefields' that Ian had to navigate along the way, which were often more difficult to deal with than the real minefields.
Author: Rae McGrath
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000-03-20
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780745312590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the resiliance of African traditional farming practices in resisting the imposition of Western development schemes by powerful elites
Author: Mike Croll
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
