Disarmament as Humanitarian Action

Research activities

• Showing how humanitarian perspectives add value to disarmament and arms control work, and how proposing new ways these approaches could assist multilateral processes;
• Examining multilateral negotiating processes more broadly to help practitioners "think outside the box" in their work by drawing on interdisciplinary research.

  Publications

• introduced the project and examined difficulties for multilateral practitioners in negotiating effectively in disarmament and arms control;
• offered practical insights for efforts to reduce human insecurity drawing on lessons learned from humanitarian contexts such as international work on explosive remnants of war, small arms and anti-personnel mines; and
• offered new practical tools and perspectives to assist the ongoing work of multilateral disarmament practitioners.

  Current work