Disarmament As Humanitarian Action

Author : United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disarmament as Humanitarian Action written by United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : John Borrie
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disarmament as Humanitarian Action written by John Borrie and published by UN. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-conflict situations, the success of humanitarian efforts is closely linked to the effectiveness of multilateral disarmament efforts, and both would benefit from a greater understanding of human security issues. This publication sets out case studies of humanitarian approaches that have had, or could have, a positive impact on disarmament processes. Cases studies included cover negotiations on anti-personnel mines, explosive remnants of war (ERW) and small arms, as well as emerging issues relating to gender and human security.

Author : John Borrie
Publisher : UN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Approaches in Multilateral Decision Making written by John Borrie and published by UN. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains four papers: 'Rethinking multilateral negotiations: disamament as humanitarian action'; 'Modelling armed violence: a tool for humanitarina dialogue in disarmament and arms control'; 'Deconstructing disarmament: the challenge of making the disarmament and arms control machinery responsive to the humanitarian imperative'; 'A comparisonbetween arms control and other multilateral negotiation processes'.

Author : Matthew Breay Bolton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030276112
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament written by Matthew Breay Bolton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade. Two campaigns have won Nobel Peace Prizes. Disarmament has long been a dirty word in the international relations lexicon. But the success of the humanitarian disarmament agenda shows that people often choose to prohibit or limit certain violent technologies, for reasons of security, honour, ethics or humanitarianism. This edited volume showcases interdisciplinary research by scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the dynamics and impact of the new global activism on weapons. While some raise concerns that humanitarian disarmament may be piecemeal and depoliticizing, others see opportunities to breathe new life into moribund arms control policymaking. Foreword by 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams.

Author : Treasa Dunworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108579914
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanitarian Disarmament written by Treasa Dunworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanitarian framing of disarmament is not a novel development, but rather represents a re-emergence of a much older and long-standing sensibility of humanitarianism in disarmament. The Book rejects the 'big bang' theory that presents the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997, and its successors – the Convention on Cluster Munitions 2008, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017 – as a paradigm shift from an older traditional state-centric approach towards a more progressive humanitarian approach. It shows how humanitarian disarmament has a long and complex history, which includes these treaties. This book argues that the attempt to locate the birth of humanitarian disarmament in these treaties is part of the attempt to cleanse humanitarian disarmament of politics, presenting humanitarianism as a morally superior discourse in disarmament. However, humanitarianism carries its own blind spots and has its own hegemonic leanings. It may be silencing other potentially more transformative discourses.

Author : John Borrie
Publisher : United Nations Publications UNIDIR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Outside the Box in Multilateral Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations written by John Borrie and published by United Nations Publications UNIDIR. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success in multilateral disarmament and arms control negotiations has been scarce in recent years. There is need for new approaches--to "think outside the box"--in order to make them work better because continued failure has real human costs. This volume offers new practical tools and perspectives to inform and help the ongoing efforts of multilateral disarmament practitioners, drawing from a range of contributors in civil society, diplomacy, and the policy and research fields. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).

Author : Alexander Kmentt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000393488
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons written by Alexander Kmentt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the negotiation history of the TPNW. It includes a close analysis of internal strategy documents and communications in the author’s possession which trace the tactical and political decisions of a small group of state actors. By demonstrating the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and uncontrollable risks that these weapons pose to everyone’s security, the HI convinced many states to ban nuclear weapons and reject the policy of nuclear deterrence as unsustainable and illegitimate. As such, this book is a case-study of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation between state and civil society actors. It also contains a full discussion of both sides of the nuclear argument and assesses the extent to which the HI and the TPNW have moved the dial and present opportunities for transformational change. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, diplomacy, global governance, and International Relations in general.

Author : United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9210600835
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Disarmament 2016 written by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nascent movement to enact a nuclear ban treaty has reframed the problem of nuclear weapons from defense strategies to the issues of humanitarian and environmental consequences. This volume of Civil Society Engagement in Disarmament Processes presents a case for the nuclear ban treaty as a vital first step in nuclear weapons’ ultimate abolition. The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs publishes this series within the context of the General Assembly resolutions on the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme and the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non-proliferation Education. The publication provides a forum for the views of civil society in order to further an informed debate on topical issues of arms limitation, disarmament and security.

Author : Nik Hynek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661166X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament written by Nik Hynek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses, political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional grand/mid-range theorization.

Author : Dimitris Bourantonis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349239224
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Nations in the New World Order written by Dimitris Bourantonis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community. The focus of the book is on the ability of the UN to sustain this new dynamism in the years ahead. It will examine the roles of the UN in the vital areas of international peace and security as well as in the realms of human rights, disarmament and arms control and economic development. The contributors, who are experts in the UN system, address the conditions which can make the UN more effective and present suggestions on the ways to improve the utilization of the world organisation so as to increase its efficacy.