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Introduction
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) describes itself as “an international network of 1,400 Non Governmental Organizations in ninety (90) countries (including) human rights, demining, humanitarian, children’s, veterans’, medical, development, arms control, religious, environmental, and women’s groups … who work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally to ban antipersonnel landmines” (ICBL website).
Brief History
The Campaign was founded in 1991 by Handicap International, Human Rights Watch, Medico International, the Mines Advisory Group, Physicians for Human Rights and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. A mere 6 years later (December, 1997) the movement’s efforts culminated in the signing of the International Mine Ban Treaty, known also as “the Ottawa Treaty.”
The ICBL is a truly international civil society movement that emerged in many and diverse...
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References/Further Readings
International Campaign to Ban Landmines. (1999). International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Landmine Monitor Report (annual).
International Campaign to Ban Landmines. (1998–2008). Landmine Monitor Report, and annual editions.
Millennium Development Goal Campaign. (n.d.). Chapter 2: Case study, “The International Campaign to Ban Landmines” (ICBL), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Millennium Development Goals Campaign Office, from www.civicus.org/mdg/2-cs.htm
Montlake, S. (2003, September 25). International effort to stop land mines bears fruit. Christian Science Monitor.
Williams, J. (1999, September 3). The international campaign to ban landmines – a model for disarmament initiatives? Nobelprize.org.
Williams, J. et al. (Eds.) (2008). Banning landmines: Disarmament, citizen diplomacy and human security. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
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Cumming, L.S. (2010). International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In: Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_690
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