From Library Journal
Cahill, editor of A Framework for Survival (BasicBks, 1993), brings together an impressive group of internationally recognized experts in healthcare, human rights, and military affairs to pose "solutions to the global land mines crisis." The volume forms a complete and insightful policy primer on how to remove the 100 million landmines now deployed in over 60 countries, which claim 15,000 victims worldwide each year. Contributors call for international agencies and the U.S. government to act on the matter and provide an analytical framework for weighing immediate and long-term concerns and assessing the technical political, and moral aspects of the situation. While Paul Davies's War of the Mines; Cambodia, Landmines and the Impoverishment of a Nation (LJ 8/94) provides a moving humanitarian case with his in-depth study of landmines in Cambodia. Cahill's volume translates that concern into effective international and national policy dedicated to removing landmines both from past wars and from future wars. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.
James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Some 100 million landmines are currently deployed around the world. The headlines offers stories of the continued suffering caused by these remnants of past conflicts. Jointly published with the USA Council on Foreign Relations, this book examines how to address the threat of landmines. The book brings together a group of representatives from the military, human rights and healthcare fields to propose solutions to the crisis.
