Moral Entrepreneurs and the Campaign to Ban Landmines
Frank Faulkner
Jan 2007 · At the Interface Book 35 · Rodopi
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This work advances the proposition that traditional 'top down' politics is being challenged by grass-roots, civil society based 'bottom up' politics in that most sensitive areas, the national security/arms control dichotomy. The book uses the example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), that has succeeded in reversing or altering the national policies on landmines in over 130 countries globally. The book cites the efforts of what the author calls 'moral entrepreneurs', that is people who have adopted the risk-taking characteristics of business and social leaders to bring this state of affairs about. As a new polity that challenges old assumptions about the state's preserve in matters of national security and moral force, the ICBL has set the benchmark for a fresh, twenty-first century paradigm in arms control.
About the author
Frank Faulkner is Senior Lecturer in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Political Science at the University of Derby, England. A former serving Logistics Technician with the British Army, Dr Faulkner is also an accredited victim-offender mediator, and is Secretary to the Board of Trustees, International Demining Group, a humanitarian landmine action foundation based in The Netherlands. He is the author of a numerous articles and book chapter on landmines, the arms trade, child soldiers, and is currently planning a book on chemical and biological weapons.
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