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8/7/2019 PEACE ST 2B03 / WOMEN'S ST 2A03 / LABR ST 2W03 (2010/11) Lecture 5: The international campaign against landmines

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Outline

The Ottawa Convention

Dublin/Oslo Accord

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Mine Ban Treaty

Social Justice

International civil society

The Ottawa Treaty

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another world is

possible

Inclusive?

A spectacle?

The World Social Forum

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Dublin/Oslo Accord

Agreed to by more than100 states

Cluster Munitions

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Reports of the Israeli army using cluster munitions is an

obvious propaganda of Hezbollah and otherorganizations who do not know what is actually goingon.

Arkady Milman, Ambassador of Israel to the Russian Federation, 26 July 20061

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We try to minimize their use. We only use them in

designated areas that have been closed even byHezbollah itself.

Major General Benny Gantz, Commander of Israels ground forces, 26 July 2006

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What we did was insane and monstrous, we coveredentire towns in cluster bombs.

Head of an IDF rocket unit, Haaretz daily newspaper, Israel, 12 September 2006

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For Wednesday

Discuss some of the Humanitarian implications of

land mines and cluster munitions

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For Thursday

How can we approach (and challenge) the

effectiveness of cluster munitions, from a militaryperspective?

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Citations & further reading

Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke (2001) Global Showdown: How the New Activists AreFighting Global Corporate Rule, Toronto: Stoddart.

Charloe Lindsey (2001) Women Facing War: ICRC Study on the Impact of Armed Conicton Women, International Commiee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Executive Summaryavailable online hp://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdd/46e943750.pdf

Charloe Lindsey (2003) Women Facing War: Special Report, International Commieeof the Red Cross (ICRC). Available online hp://www.corecentre.co.in/Database/Docs/DocFiles/women_war.pdf

Owen Worth & Karen Buckley (2009) 'e World Social Forum: postmodern princeor court jester?', ird World Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 649-661

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Image sources

Mike Konopacki. 2000. If there was justice in the world, 2000 http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm

Human Rights Champions, 2001 http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/03/11/who-wants-to-be-the-

new-human-rights-cha

Which do you pet, which do you eat? http://www.meatout.org/action/outreach.htm

Shane T. McCoy, Detainees at Camp X-Ray, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

World Social Forum banner. World Social Forum 2008: A Global Call for Action Another World Is (Still)

Possible, Alliance 21 http://www.alliance21.org/2003/article3291.html

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