The global landmine crisis in the 1990s

Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 21-33

  McDonald, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (25)

1. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "Address to the Signing Ceremony of the Anti-personnel Mines Convention", Ottawa, Canada, December 3, 1997.
2. For more discussion on the changing role of middle powers in international relations, see Kenneth R. Rutherford, Stefan Brem, and Richard A. Matthew, Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy (New York: Praeger, 2003).
3. Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).
4. A number of publicly available chronologies were useful in developing this chapter: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, "Ban Movement Chronology", available online at http:www.icbl.org;
5. Friends Committee on National Legislation "Chronology of U. S. Policy and International Mine Ban Treaty Events", available online at http://www.fcnl.org/issues/arm/sup/lan-chron.htm;
6. Landmine Survivors Network, "Chronology", available online at http://www.landminesurvivors.org/heritage/chronology.php;
7. and Professor Landmine's "Chronology of Events 1949-2001: Landmine Regulation and Elimination", available online at http://www. professorlandmine.com/chronology.html.
8. On the history and uses of landmines, see Mike Croll, The History of Landmines (Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 1998);
9. Rae McGrath, Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance: A Resource Book (London: Pluto Press, 2000);
10. and Lydia Monin and Andrew Gallimore, The Devil's Gardens: A History of Landmines (London: Pilmoco, 2002).
11. Martin van Creveld, Technology and War: From 2000BC to the Present (New York: Free Press, 1989), 71.
12. For examples of this debate, see the chapters in this volume by J. Antonio Ohe and Ted Gaulin. See also Richard A. Matthew and Ted Gaulin, "Time to Sign the Mine Ban Treaty", Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 2003): 69-73;
13. and Dipankar Banerjee, "Military Utility", in Stalking Terror: Landmines in Peace and in War (Delhi: Wordsmiths, 2000).
14. Colin King, ed., Jane's Mines and Mine Clearance (Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group, 1996).
15. United States Department of State, Hidden Killers: The Global Landmine Crisis (Washington, DC: U. S. Department of State, 1998), 16.
16. The lower figure is from International Committee for the Red Cross, Landmines Must Be Stopped (Geneva: ICRC, 1998), 16.
17. The higher figure is from Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin, "To Walk without Fear", in To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines, ed. Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 2.
18. NGO Conference on Antipersonnel Mines, Report of the Final Plenary Session, London, May 26, 1993.
19. Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, Landmines: A Deadly Legacy (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1993).
20. Shawn Roberts and Jody Williams, After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmines (Washington, DC: Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 1995).
21. Carey Goldberg, "Peace Prize Goes to Land-Mine Opponents", New York Times, October 11 1997, late. ed., A1.
22. Jody Williams and Stephen Goose, "The International Campaign to Ban Landmines", in Cameron, Lawson, and Tomlin, To Walk without Fear (See note 12), 20-47.
23. Jere Longman, "The XVIII Winter Games: A Display of Culture and Hope Opens Games", New York Times, February 7, 1998, late ed., A1.
24. Robert J. Lawson, Mark Gwozdecky, Jill Sinclair, and Ralph Lysyshyn, "The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Anti-Personnel Mines", in Cameron, Lawson, and Tomlin, To Walk without Fear (see note 12), 160-184.
25. Rutherford, Brem, and Matthew, Reframing the Agenda.