Landmines

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PONENTE: Jody Williams, coordinadora de la campaña internacional para la abolición de las minas antipersona.
DESTINATARIOS DE LA INTERPRETACIÓN: estudiantes de un Máster de la Paz, Conflictos y  Desarrollo.

CONTEXTO

ESQUEMA

International Campaing for the Abolition of Landmines (ICAL)

• Acknowledgments
• landmines are injurious because:
• they remain there after the conflict is over
• they do not distinguish between combatants and civilians
• tens of millions of landmines are still planted in over 70 countries
• Cambodia: 4-6 million
• Afghanistan: 9 million
• former Yugoslavia: 6 million
• Angola: 9 million
•  Mozambique: 1 million
• Somalia: 1 million
• 1,00.000.0000 -2,00.000.000 stockpiled
• 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW)
• concern about landmines began in the post-cold war era
• reconstruction and democracy are hindered by landmines
• in the1990’s NGO’s began to call for the elimination of landmines
• ICAL is a coalition of over 1,000 organizations in more than 60 countries
• 89 countries met in Oslo to negotiate a ban treaty in September 1997
• 121 countries signed the ban treaty in Ottawa in December 1997
• in the previous years landmines began to be seen as a global humanitarian crisis
• pressure on governments to ban production, trade and stockpiling.
• Canada hosted an international meeting in Ottawa: 74 governments attended (50 full members and 24 observers).
• the Canadian government boosted an international treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines
• historic negotiations
• governments worked hand in hand with NGO’s to ban landmines
• NGO’s did not yield ground to any superpower
• the final treaty was stronger than its drafts
• the leaders of states have come together to answer the will of civil society.
• closing remarks
  

TERMINOLOGÍA Y CONCEPTOS

TIPO DE TEXTO: expositivo, narrativo
INTENCIÓN COMUNICATIVA: informar, persuadir