The Convention on Cluster Munitions

The Convention on Cluster Munitions
Author: Gro Nystuen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199599009

This is a commentary on the legislation around the use of cluster munitions in warfare.--

Cluster Munitions and International Law

Cluster Munitions and International Law
Author: Alexander Breitegger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136507183

This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use of cluster munitions under international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international criminal law, as well as in relation to the recently adopted Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The book goes on to offer an in-depth substantive and procedural analysis of the negotiations which led to the 2008 CCM, in part based on the author’s experiences as an adviser to Cluster Munitions Coalition-Austria. Cluster Munitions and International Law is essential reading for practitioners and scholars of International Law, including International Humanitarian, Human Rights, International Criminal or Disarmament Law and anyone interested in legal and humanitarian perspectives on cluster munitions legislation and policy. It is unique in bringing a practitioner’s perspective to a scholarly work.

Banning Landmines

Banning Landmines
Author: Jody Williams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742562417

Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state armed groups. The second half of this book considers the impact of the landmine movement on other issues (such as cluster munitions and disability rights), as well as the extent to which it has contributed to the field of human security. Edited by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and two other long-time leaders of the mine ban movement, Stephen Goose and Mary Wareham, Banning Landmines features contributions by grassroots activists, diplomatic negotiators, mine survivors, arms experts, and human rights defenders. This diverse group of writers at the forefront of the landmine ban movement is well placed to provide insights into this remarkable process, its precedents, and implications for other work and issues.

Justice, Sustainability, and Security

Justice, Sustainability, and Security
Author: E. Heinze
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137322942

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition.

SIPRI Yearbook 2005

SIPRI Yearbook 2005
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher: SIPRI Yearbook
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199284016

The 36th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2004 ino Security and conflictso Military spending and armamentso Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control. Studies in this volume:Euro-Atlantic securityMajor armed conflictsMultilateral peace missionsGoverning the use of force under international auspicesThe greater Middle EastLatin America and the CaribbeanEnvironmental securityFinancing security in a global contextMilitary expenditure Arms productionInternational arms transfersArms control and the non-proliferation processNuclear arms control and non-proliferationChemical and biological weapon developments and arms control Libya's renunciation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and longer-range missile programmesConventional arms control International non-proliferation and disarmament assistanceMultilateral export controlsThe Proliferation Security InitiativeThe annual accounts and analyses are extensively footnoted, providing a comprehensive bibliography in each subject area.

Yearbook of the United Nations

Yearbook of the United Nations
Author: United Nations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1616
Release: 2009
Genre: International agencies
ISBN:

Issue for 1946-47 includes a summary of the organization's activities from its inception to July 1, 1947.