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Cluster Munitions: A Banned Weapon, Icbl-Cmc
Cluster Munitions: A Banned Weapon, Icbl-Cmc
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Cluster Munitions: A Banned Weapon
Stigma: The Political Costs Of Using Cluster Munitions, Icbl-Cmc
Stigma: The Political Costs Of Using Cluster Munitions, Icbl-Cmc
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The movement to end the suffering caused by cluster munitions succeeded not only in establishing a legal ban in the form of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), but also in decisively reshaping the global perception of these weapons. Over the past decade, the awareness-raising and political mobilization surrounding cluster munitions have led to an understanding among states that any use would be associated with unnecessary human suffering and would most certainly provoke considerable international criticism. In other words, the political movement and legal ban have created a powerful stigma associated with the use of cluster munitions, a stigma …