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This book analyses the politics of the humanitarian disarmament community-a loose coalition of activist and advocacy groups, humanitarian agencies and diplomats-who have successfully achieved international treaties banning landmines, cluster munitions and nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade. Two campaigns have won Nobel Peace Prizes. Disarmament has long been a dirty word in the international relations lexicon. But the success of the humanitarian disarmament agenda shows that people often choose to prohibit or limit certain violent technologies, for reasons of security, honour, ethics or humanitarianism. This edited volume showcases interdisciplinary research by scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the dynamics and impact of the new global activism on weapons. While some raise concerns that humanitarian disarmament may be piecemeal and depoliticizing, others see opportunities to breathe new life into moribund arms control policymaking. Foreword by 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams.

Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament

1. The Humanitarian Disarmament Movement: An Assessment and Review by Taylor Benjamin-Britton, Matthew Bolton and Sarah Njeri
Part I: Emergence of Norms
2. When Scientists become Activists: The International Committee for Robot Arms Control and the Politics of Killer Robotsby Matthew Bolton and Cayman Mitchell
3. The Agency of International Humanitarian Disarmament Law: The Case of Advocacy for Positive Obligations in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by Matthew Bolton and Elizabeth Minor
4. Religious Advocacy and Activism for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weaponsby Emily Welty, with Gabrielle Chalk
Part II: Challenges in Diffusing and Implementing Norms
5. US Arms Control Dynamics in the Era of Humanitarian Disarmament: A Case Study of the Convention on Cluster Munitionsby Taylor Benjamin-Britton
6. The Politics of Non-Recognition: Re-evaluating the Apolitical Presentation of the UN Humanitarian Mine Action Programmes in Somalilandby Sarah Njeri
Part III: The Wider Context
7. The Relationship between Humanitarian Disarmament and General and Complete Disarmamentby Dan Plesch and Kevin Miletic 
8. Assessing the Political Impact of Inclusion and Exclusion in Multilateral Disarmament Forumsby Elizabeth Minor