Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control

ISBN-13: 9781498547178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 190 str.

Ritu Mathur

Opis

It is with a critical security studies lens that this book investigates how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a leading humanitarian actor for more than a century addresses the problem of weapons. In its efforts, the ICRC through a triangulation of strategies such as testimonialization, legalization, and medicalization has insisted on an effects based approach to weapons. The attempt here is to not only introduce some innovative, conceptual tools but also to provide a coherent narrative of the experiences of the ICRC vis-a-vis states to regulate and prohibit weapons. This experiential account of the ICRC's engagement with the problem of weapons produces a discourse that needs attentive listeners.