The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines
The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross 1955–1999

Work of the International Committee of the Red Cross to ban anti-personnel landmines, 1955–1999.

Louis Maresca (Edited by), Stuart Maslen (Edited by)

9780521783170, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 November 2000

700 pages
23.6 x 16 x 4.7 cm, 1.229 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This compilation of selected ICRC documents has been able to bring to light the Committee's sustained hard work often away from publicity. It is a welcome addition to international humanitarian law literature.' International Studies

The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines and in offering aid to victims of war and internal armed violence. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC in this area from 1955 through 1999, and gives additional commentary on general issues of the methods and means of warfare. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers, and speeches made by its representatives to the international meetings convened to address the mines issue, including the 1995–96 Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the diplomatic meeting which adopted the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines. These documents provide critical insights into the development of international humanitarian law on this issue, and will form a basis for discussions on landmines and other conventional weapons.

Introduction
1. From principles to rules: regulating mines up to the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons
2. The Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons: an initial response to the landmine crisis
3. The Ottawa process: from regional initiatives to an international prohibition of anti-personnel mines.

Subject Areas: International law [LB]