{"id":239773,"date":"2018-03-06T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=239773"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:53:36","slug":"one-campaign-against-armaments-could-aid-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/03\/one-campaign-against-armaments-could-aid-another\/","title":{"rendered":"One win against weapons could fuel another"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1667\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_089_2500.jpg\" width=\"2500\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">During &quot;From Landmines to Nuclear Weapons,&quot; a panel featuring Steve Goose (from left) and Beatrice Fihn and moderated by Bonnie Docherty of the Law School addressed the origins and evolution of humanitarian disarmament while reflecting on their roles negotiating treaties that ban landmines, cluster munitions, and nuclear weapons. <\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tNation &amp; World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tOne win against weapons could fuel another\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author wp-block-post-author__name\">\n\t\tClea Simon\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">\n\t\t\tHarvard Correspondent\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2018-03-06\">\n\t\t\tMarch 6, 2018\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t5 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tSuccessful campaign banning landmines could provide blueprint against nuclear arms, panel says\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>When the movement began in 1992, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was considered quixotic, its proponents unrealistically idealistic, its efforts doomed to fail. Twenty-five years and one Nobel Peace Prize later, more than 180 countries have signed its 1997 treaty, agreeing not only to avoid using the weapons but to help remove them from areas where they have been abandoned and remain a danger to life, limbs, and livelihoods.<\/p>\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-5f1db7f7-7eb5-448f-a468-5e9b841223d9\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/03\/stirrings-of-a-renewed-nuclear-arms-race\/\">Stirrings of a new nuclear arms race<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-03-01\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 1, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<p>Nuclear weapons, now a reality of our modern world, could go the same way, say the activists behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Indeed, humanitarian rights activists say, they must. On Monday at Harvard Law School\u2019s Austin Hall, the anti-nuclear campaign\u2019s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, joined Steve Goose, co-founder of the landmines-ban group and executive director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s arms division, to discuss the origin and evolution of the mine campaign, and how the tactics of the first can be applied to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody said it was impossible to do,\u201d said Goose, looking back at the long road to the 1997 landmine treaty. \u201cAfter we finally did it, people said, \u2018Oh, that wasn\u2019t that hard. It was a one-off. Circumstances allowed that to happen.\u2019\u201d They also, he reported, said its success could not be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s discussion was designed to prove that false. Indeed, this first public event of Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead (moderated by Bonnie Docherty, associate director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection at Harvard Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic) started off by outlining the similarities \u2014 and the successes \u2014 of other recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, we had a treaty banning cluster munitions,\u201d noted Goose. \u201cWe used the same approach, a coalition of progressive governments and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and various U.N. agencies. By focusing on a catchphrase, \u2018Let\u2019s ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,\u2019 using much the same approach and methodology, we got a ban in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That methodology began with a grassroots approach. \u201cFirst and foremost, you see civil society driving the process,\u201d Goose said. In the case of landmines, he noted, society said, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have more than 20,000 people killed or injured by these each year.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide  size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=2048,1366 2048w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=48,32 48w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=96,64 96w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=1488,992 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg?resize=1680,1120 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n<p>In the next step, activist citizens sought out allies, including progressive governments and international organizations (UNICEF was deeply involved in the landmine cause). Goose described creating a partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a core group of governments that \u201cspoke every day, conspiring to make the ban on landmines come about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear ban group is making similar moves, said Fihn. Although there is no lack of NGOs working for nuclear disarmament, she said, the movement tends to be spread out, with much of the effort working to coordinate into \u201cone big push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons succeeded in getting a treaty banning nuclear weapons moving last July, and 122 states adopted it in the United Nations. The group won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, some nations, including the U.S., Russia, and China, have refused to sign onto the ban. However, she said, her group is going forward. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s the way,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to wait for the worst states to start leading but mobilize the other states to make sure there is a clear rejection of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the model set by the landmines initiative, Fihn said the nuclear disarmament group is focusing on societal forces, specifically on people affected by nuclear armaments, including nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is nuclear war, there will be survivors,\u201d she said. And while that ought to be hopeful, she noted that it also makes for complicated and often painful repercussions. To illustrate, Fihn talked about sharing the stories of survivors of the Nagasaki bombing. \u201cTrying to get water, trying to find out where their parents are,\u201d she said, listing some of the very human struggles that can be overlooked. She also discussed the high rates of miscarriage and infertility among women affected by radiation, and how survivors carried a stigma. Such stories, about civilians and, in particular, about women, tend not to be heard at the level of international diplomacy. It is the goal of her group to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human stories get people to understand what these weapons are,\u201d said Fihn, \u201cwhile also providing some hope as to what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not heads of states or celebrities,\u201d said Goose. \u201cIt\u2019s just regular people who got together and organized. That is what is changing the world \u2014 people demanding change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitariandisarmament.org\/\"><em>Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0launched the <\/em><em>Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative<\/em><em>, housed in the Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic. The conference was organized by the clinic, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successful effort to ban landmines could be a blueprint for a campaign against nuclear arms, Harvard Law School panel says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108352576,"featured_media":239774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":10,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"2018-04-12 03:09","document_color_palette":"crimson","author":"Clea Simon","affiliation":"Harvard Correspondent","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[8517,15870,40031,40030,25800],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-239773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation-world","tag-clea-simon","tag-harvard-law-school","tag-international-campaign-to-abolish-nuclear-weapons","tag-international-campaign-to-ban-landmines","tag-nobel-peace-prize"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One campaign against armaments could fuel another &#8212; 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World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/03\/stirrings-of-a-renewed-nuclear-arms-race\/\">Stirrings of a new nuclear arms race<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-03-01\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 1, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t"}],"innerHTML":"<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-5f1db7f7-7eb5-448f-a468-5e9b841223d9\"><\/div>","innerContent":["<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-5f1db7f7-7eb5-448f-a468-5e9b841223d9\">","<\/div>"],"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-5f1db7f7-7eb5-448f-a468-5e9b841223d9\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/03\/stirrings-of-a-renewed-nuclear-arms-race\/\">Stirrings of a new nuclear arms race<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-03-01\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 1, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n<p>Nuclear weapons, now a reality of our modern world, could go the same way, say the activists behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Indeed, humanitarian rights activists say, they must. On Monday at Harvard Law School\u2019s Austin Hall, the anti-nuclear campaign\u2019s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, joined Steve Goose, co-founder of the landmines-ban group and executive director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s arms division, to discuss the origin and evolution of the mine campaign, and how the tactics of the first can be applied to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody said it was impossible to do,\u201d said Goose, looking back at the long road to the 1997 landmine treaty. \u201cAfter we finally did it, people said, \u2018Oh, that wasn\u2019t that hard. It was a one-off. Circumstances allowed that to happen.\u2019\u201d They also, he reported, said its success could not be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s discussion was designed to prove that false. Indeed, this first public event of Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead (moderated by Bonnie Docherty, associate director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection at Harvard Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic) started off by outlining the similarities \u2014 and the successes \u2014 of other recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, we had a treaty banning cluster munitions,\u201d noted Goose. \u201cWe used the same approach, a coalition of progressive governments and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and various U.N. agencies. By focusing on a catchphrase, \u2018Let\u2019s ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,\u2019 using much the same approach and methodology, we got a ban in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That methodology began with a grassroots approach. \u201cFirst and foremost, you see civil society driving the process,\u201d Goose said. In the case of landmines, he noted, society said, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have more than 20,000 people killed or injured by these each year.\u201d<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n<p>Nuclear weapons, now a reality of our modern world, could go the same way, say the activists behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Indeed, humanitarian rights activists say, they must. On Monday at Harvard Law School\u2019s Austin Hall, the anti-nuclear campaign\u2019s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, joined Steve Goose, co-founder of the landmines-ban group and executive director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s arms division, to discuss the origin and evolution of the mine campaign, and how the tactics of the first can be applied to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody said it was impossible to do,\u201d said Goose, looking back at the long road to the 1997 landmine treaty. \u201cAfter we finally did it, people said, \u2018Oh, that wasn\u2019t that hard. It was a one-off. Circumstances allowed that to happen.\u2019\u201d They also, he reported, said its success could not be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s discussion was designed to prove that false. Indeed, this first public event of Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead (moderated by Bonnie Docherty, associate director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection at Harvard Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic) started off by outlining the similarities \u2014 and the successes \u2014 of other recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, we had a treaty banning cluster munitions,\u201d noted Goose. \u201cWe used the same approach, a coalition of progressive governments and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and various U.N. agencies. By focusing on a catchphrase, \u2018Let\u2019s ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,\u2019 using much the same approach and methodology, we got a ban in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That methodology began with a grassroots approach. \u201cFirst and foremost, you see civil society driving the process,\u201d Goose said. In the case of landmines, he noted, society said, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have more than 20,000 people killed or injured by these each year.\u201d<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\n<p>Nuclear weapons, now a reality of our modern world, could go the same way, say the activists behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Indeed, humanitarian rights activists say, they must. On Monday at Harvard Law School\u2019s Austin Hall, the anti-nuclear campaign\u2019s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, joined Steve Goose, co-founder of the landmines-ban group and executive director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s arms division, to discuss the origin and evolution of the mine campaign, and how the tactics of the first can be applied to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody said it was impossible to do,\u201d said Goose, looking back at the long road to the 1997 landmine treaty. \u201cAfter we finally did it, people said, \u2018Oh, that wasn\u2019t that hard. It was a one-off. Circumstances allowed that to happen.\u2019\u201d They also, he reported, said its success could not be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s discussion was designed to prove that false. Indeed, this first public event of Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead (moderated by Bonnie Docherty, associate director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection at Harvard Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic) started off by outlining the similarities \u2014 and the successes \u2014 of other recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, we had a treaty banning cluster munitions,\u201d noted Goose. \u201cWe used the same approach, a coalition of progressive governments and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and various U.N. agencies. By focusing on a catchphrase, \u2018Let\u2019s ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,\u2019 using much the same approach and methodology, we got a ban in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That methodology began with a grassroots approach. \u201cFirst and foremost, you see civil society driving the process,\u201d Goose said. In the case of landmines, he noted, society said, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have more than 20,000 people killed or injured by these each year.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"blockName":"core\/image","attrs":{"sizeSlug":"full","align":"wide","id":239775,"caption":"A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.","creditText":"Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer","blob":"","url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg","alt":"","lightbox":[],"title":"","href":"","rel":"","linkClass":"","width":"","height":"","aspectRatio":"","scale":"","linkDestination":"","linkTarget":"","lock":[],"metadata":[],"className":"","style":[],"borderColor":"","anchor":""},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide  size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239775\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t","innerContent":["\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide  size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239775\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t"],"rendered":"\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide  size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239775\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n<p>In the next step, activist citizens sought out allies, including progressive governments and international organizations (UNICEF was deeply involved in the landmine cause). Goose described creating a partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a core group of governments that \u201cspoke every day, conspiring to make the ban on landmines come about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear ban group is making similar moves, said Fihn. Although there is no lack of NGOs working for nuclear disarmament, she said, the movement tends to be spread out, with much of the effort working to coordinate into \u201cone big push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons succeeded in getting a treaty banning nuclear weapons moving last July, and 122 states adopted it in the United Nations. The group won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, some nations, including the U.S., Russia, and China, have refused to sign onto the ban. However, she said, her group is going forward. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s the way,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to wait for the worst states to start leading but mobilize the other states to make sure there is a clear rejection of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the model set by the landmines initiative, Fihn said the nuclear disarmament group is focusing on societal forces, specifically on people affected by nuclear armaments, including nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is nuclear war, there will be survivors,\u201d she said. And while that ought to be hopeful, she noted that it also makes for complicated and often painful repercussions. To illustrate, Fihn talked about sharing the stories of survivors of the Nagasaki bombing. \u201cTrying to get water, trying to find out where their parents are,\u201d she said, listing some of the very human struggles that can be overlooked. She also discussed the high rates of miscarriage and infertility among women affected by radiation, and how survivors carried a stigma. Such stories, about civilians and, in particular, about women, tend not to be heard at the level of international diplomacy. It is the goal of her group to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human stories get people to understand what these weapons are,\u201d said Fihn, \u201cwhile also providing some hope as to what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not heads of states or celebrities,\u201d said Goose. \u201cIt\u2019s just regular people who got together and organized. That is what is changing the world \u2014 people demanding change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitariandisarmament.org\/\"><em>Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0launched the <\/em><em>Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative<\/em><em>, housed in the Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic. The conference was organized by the clinic, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","innerContent":["\n<p>In the next step, activist citizens sought out allies, including progressive governments and international organizations (UNICEF was deeply involved in the landmine cause). Goose described creating a partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a core group of governments that \u201cspoke every day, conspiring to make the ban on landmines come about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear ban group is making similar moves, said Fihn. Although there is no lack of NGOs working for nuclear disarmament, she said, the movement tends to be spread out, with much of the effort working to coordinate into \u201cone big push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons succeeded in getting a treaty banning nuclear weapons moving last July, and 122 states adopted it in the United Nations. The group won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, some nations, including the U.S., Russia, and China, have refused to sign onto the ban. However, she said, her group is going forward. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s the way,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to wait for the worst states to start leading but mobilize the other states to make sure there is a clear rejection of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the model set by the landmines initiative, Fihn said the nuclear disarmament group is focusing on societal forces, specifically on people affected by nuclear armaments, including nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is nuclear war, there will be survivors,\u201d she said. And while that ought to be hopeful, she noted that it also makes for complicated and often painful repercussions. To illustrate, Fihn talked about sharing the stories of survivors of the Nagasaki bombing. \u201cTrying to get water, trying to find out where their parents are,\u201d she said, listing some of the very human struggles that can be overlooked. She also discussed the high rates of miscarriage and infertility among women affected by radiation, and how survivors carried a stigma. Such stories, about civilians and, in particular, about women, tend not to be heard at the level of international diplomacy. It is the goal of her group to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human stories get people to understand what these weapons are,\u201d said Fihn, \u201cwhile also providing some hope as to what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not heads of states or celebrities,\u201d said Goose. \u201cIt\u2019s just regular people who got together and organized. That is what is changing the world \u2014 people demanding change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitariandisarmament.org\/\"><em>Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0launched the <\/em><em>Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative<\/em><em>, housed in the Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic. The conference was organized by the clinic, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n"],"rendered":"\n<p>In the next step, activist citizens sought out allies, including progressive governments and international organizations (UNICEF was deeply involved in the landmine cause). Goose described creating a partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a core group of governments that \u201cspoke every day, conspiring to make the ban on landmines come about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear ban group is making similar moves, said Fihn. Although there is no lack of NGOs working for nuclear disarmament, she said, the movement tends to be spread out, with much of the effort working to coordinate into \u201cone big push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons succeeded in getting a treaty banning nuclear weapons moving last July, and 122 states adopted it in the United Nations. The group won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, some nations, including the U.S., Russia, and China, have refused to sign onto the ban. However, she said, her group is going forward. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s the way,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to wait for the worst states to start leading but mobilize the other states to make sure there is a clear rejection of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the model set by the landmines initiative, Fihn said the nuclear disarmament group is focusing on societal forces, specifically on people affected by nuclear armaments, including nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is nuclear war, there will be survivors,\u201d she said. And while that ought to be hopeful, she noted that it also makes for complicated and often painful repercussions. To illustrate, Fihn talked about sharing the stories of survivors of the Nagasaki bombing. \u201cTrying to get water, trying to find out where their parents are,\u201d she said, listing some of the very human struggles that can be overlooked. She also discussed the high rates of miscarriage and infertility among women affected by radiation, and how survivors carried a stigma. Such stories, about civilians and, in particular, about women, tend not to be heard at the level of international diplomacy. It is the goal of her group to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human stories get people to understand what these weapons are,\u201d said Fihn, \u201cwhile also providing some hope as to what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not heads of states or celebrities,\u201d said Goose. \u201cIt\u2019s just regular people who got together and organized. That is what is changing the world \u2014 people demanding change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitariandisarmament.org\/\"><em>Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0launched the <\/em><em>Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative<\/em><em>, housed in the Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic. The conference was organized by the clinic, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\n\t\r\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\r\n","\r\n","\r\n\t","\n\t\r\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>When the movement began in 1992, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was considered quixotic, its proponents unrealistically idealistic, its efforts doomed to fail. Twenty-five years and one Nobel Peace Prize later, more than 180 countries have signed its 1997 treaty, agreeing not only to avoid using the weapons but to help remove them from areas where they have been abandoned and remain a danger to life, limbs, and livelihoods.<\/p>\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-5f1db7f7-7eb5-448f-a468-5e9b841223d9\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ap_18060387213434.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/03\/stirrings-of-a-renewed-nuclear-arms-race\/\">Stirrings of a new nuclear arms race<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-03-01\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 1, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<p>Nuclear weapons, now a reality of our modern world, could go the same way, say the activists behind the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Indeed, humanitarian rights activists say, they must. On Monday at Harvard Law School\u2019s Austin Hall, the anti-nuclear campaign\u2019s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, joined Steve Goose, co-founder of the landmines-ban group and executive director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s arms division, to discuss the origin and evolution of the mine campaign, and how the tactics of the first can be applied to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody said it was impossible to do,\u201d said Goose, looking back at the long road to the 1997 landmine treaty. \u201cAfter we finally did it, people said, \u2018Oh, that wasn\u2019t that hard. It was a one-off. Circumstances allowed that to happen.\u2019\u201d They also, he reported, said its success could not be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s discussion was designed to prove that false. Indeed, this first public event of Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead (moderated by Bonnie Docherty, associate director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection at Harvard Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic) started off by outlining the similarities \u2014 and the successes \u2014 of other recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, we had a treaty banning cluster munitions,\u201d noted Goose. \u201cWe used the same approach, a coalition of progressive governments and the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and various U.N. agencies. By focusing on a catchphrase, \u2018Let\u2019s ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,\u2019 using much the same approach and methodology, we got a ban in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That methodology began with a grassroots approach. \u201cFirst and foremost, you see civil society driving the process,\u201d Goose said. In the case of landmines, he noted, society said, \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have more than 20,000 people killed or injured by these each year.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide  size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030518_nuclear_029_2500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239775\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">A packed Austin Hall welcomed Goose and Fihn.\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n<p>In the next step, activist citizens sought out allies, including progressive governments and international organizations (UNICEF was deeply involved in the landmine cause). Goose described creating a partnership between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a core group of governments that \u201cspoke every day, conspiring to make the ban on landmines come about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear ban group is making similar moves, said Fihn. Although there is no lack of NGOs working for nuclear disarmament, she said, the movement tends to be spread out, with much of the effort working to coordinate into \u201cone big push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons succeeded in getting a treaty banning nuclear weapons moving last July, and 122 states adopted it in the United Nations. The group won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, some nations, including the U.S., Russia, and China, have refused to sign onto the ban. However, she said, her group is going forward. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s the way,\u201d she said. \u201cNot to wait for the worst states to start leading but mobilize the other states to make sure there is a clear rejection of these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the model set by the landmines initiative, Fihn said the nuclear disarmament group is focusing on societal forces, specifically on people affected by nuclear armaments, including nuclear testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is nuclear war, there will be survivors,\u201d she said. And while that ought to be hopeful, she noted that it also makes for complicated and often painful repercussions. To illustrate, Fihn talked about sharing the stories of survivors of the Nagasaki bombing. \u201cTrying to get water, trying to find out where their parents are,\u201d she said, listing some of the very human struggles that can be overlooked. She also discussed the high rates of miscarriage and infertility among women affected by radiation, and how survivors carried a stigma. Such stories, about civilians and, in particular, about women, tend not to be heard at the level of international diplomacy. It is the goal of her group to change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human stories get people to understand what these weapons are,\u201d said Fihn, \u201cwhile also providing some hope as to what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not heads of states or celebrities,\u201d said Goose. \u201cIt\u2019s just regular people who got together and organized. That is what is changing the world \u2014 people demanding change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitariandisarmament.org\/\"><em>Humanitarian Disarmament: The Way Ahead<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0launched the <\/em><em>Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative<\/em><em>, housed in the Law School\u2019s International Human Rights Clinic. The conference was organized by the clinic, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Kennedy School\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n"}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368588,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2024\/01\/killer-robots-are-coming-and-u-n-is-worried\/","url_meta":{"origin":239773,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Killer robots\u2019 are coming, and U.N. is worried","author":"harvardgazette","date":"January 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Human rights specialist lays out legal, ethical problems of military weapons systems that can target, attack targets (or people) without human guidance","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nation &amp; World&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nation &amp; World","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bonnie Docherty","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2500BonnieDocherty-cropped1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2500BonnieDocherty-cropped1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2500BonnieDocherty-cropped1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2500BonnieDocherty-cropped1.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":177870,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/01\/fighting-for-disarmament\/","url_meta":{"origin":239773,"position":1},"title":"Fighting for disarmament","author":"harvardgazette","date":"January 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Disarmament expert Bonnier Docherty talks about cluster bombs, incendiary and explosive weapons, which are widely used in modern warfare, the threats they pose to civilians, and why countries should restrict their use.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nation &amp; 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