393rd
meeting : "Saving Limbs and Lives -
Engineering Bans on Anti-Personnel Mines and Cluster Munitions."
Tuesday,
21st July 2015.
A
talk by Susan Walker
The Talk:
Susan B.
Walker will speak about how the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
(ICBL) was able to convince the world to BAN anti-personnel mines in
1997 - the first time that a conventional weapon in widespread use had
ever been banned and in record time. And then did the same thing
again in 2008 with the Cluster Munition Coalition, when the world
banned cluster munitions (aka "bombies" that were used by the millions
in Laos). There are now 162 countries on board the AP Mine Ban
Convention and 112 countries which have joined the Convention on
Cluster Munitions (CCM) so far. Walker will speak about how
"ordinary people can do extraordinary things and change the world", as
civil society did with these two Conventions. She will also address
emerging issues such as Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (aka "Killer
Robots").
The Speaker:
Susan
B. Walker has 35 years experience in international humanitarian relief
and development field operations, disarmament and humanitarian advocacy
work, with 15 years in the field (1979-1994) working with Southeast
Asian refugees and Thai & SEA villagers, including literally tens
of thousands of cluster munition and landmine survivors. Since
1994, Walker has worked primarily on the negotiation and implementation
of the 1997 AP Mine Ban Convention (AP-MBC) and the 2008 Convention on
Cluster Munitions (CCM) based in Geneva. She returned to Thailand
and the region in January 2015..
Want to read more?
....click "HERE"
(PDF File for downloading or reading on
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