Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control
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arms control
Author_Ritu Mathur
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Chemical Weapons
civilians
critical security studies
disarmament
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human security
Humanitarianism
ICRC
international humanitarian law
landmines
lawfare
legalization
medicalization
Nuclear Weapons
peace
Red Cross
testimonies
trauma
war
witnesses
Product details
- ISBN 9781498547178
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 158 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a leading humanitarian actor, addresses the problem of weapons. A triangulation of strategies such as testimonialization, medicalization and legalization, are investigated, with the help of critical security studies literature, to cultivate an understanding of an effects based approach to weapons. The attempt here is not only to introduce some innovative, conceptual tools but also to provide a coherent and critical narrative of the experiences of the ICRC vis-à-vis states to regulate and prohibit weapons. This experiential account of the ICRC’s engagement with the problem of weapons is significant as it produces an empowering, alternative discourse making visible subjugated knowledge in the field of arms control and disarmament.
Ritu Mathur is assistant professor at University of Texas at San Antonio.
