Civil Society and Cluster Munitions: Building Blocks of a Global Campaign

Human Rights and the Social Work Curriculum: Integrating Human Rights into Skill-Based Education Regarding Policy Practice Behaviors

“…The advocacy efforts of these survivors are featured in a video that is publicly available to educators and students through vimeo (Handicap International, 2010). Nash (2012), a coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition, emphasized the important components of the effort to facilitate participation, which include a "support network, peer-peer support structure or buddy system" (p. 130). A portion of this support was provided by Handicap International (2013), a human rights organization that served as a founding member of both the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Custer Munition Coalition.…”

Weapons prohibitions through immanent critique: NGOs as emancipatory and (de)securitising actors in security governance

“…238 Instead, it has been key in moving the NGO agenda forward. 239 It does mean that some compromises need to be made and that change would sometimes be late to come, would come in fits and starts, and will not lead to an overhaul of the system. In practice, the success of the landmine and CM campaigns rested on not questioning the legitimacy of the use of force in general.…”

Civil Society and the Promotion of Human Security: Achievements, Limits, and Prospects

“…5 Its better known achievements include, but are certainly not limited to: the Landmines Convention (the Ottawa Treaty); the Rome Treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC); the Kimberley Process aimed at stemming the trade in "conflict diamonds" and various subsequent efforts to deal with "conflict minerals" such as the Publish What You Pay network; 6 and the campaigns to foster new norms and capacities for the protection of civilians caught up in armed conflicts, with particular emphasis on war-affected children, and to foster a new Responsibility to Protect (R2P) their citizens on the part of states. 7 Moreover, lest we think that these campaigns ended with 9/11 and the onset of the "global war on terror, " it is worth reminding ourselves of more recent successes, such as the Oslo Process leading to the negotiation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008 (Nash 2012).…”

“…The ICBL, for example, was "a loose network of 1200 organizations worldwide, whose power derived from a combination of dedication and new technology" sustained over many years (Gwozdecky and Sinclair 2001, 37). Similarly, the Cluster Munition Campaign (CMC) that was instrumental in the successful negotiations for the Convention on Cluster Munitions signed in 2008, involved 400 organizations in around 100 countries, requiring an exacting balance of adroit leadership, technical sophistication, and inclusive consultation persisting over a period of years (Nash 2012). Simply stated, this is a hard model to sustain and replicate.…”