Heterodoxo e histórico: el Proceso de Ottawa y la Convención sobre la prohibición de las minas antipersonales. 25 años de una historia de éxito del multilateralismo

Amaya Valcárcel Silvela

doi:10.14422/cir.i29.y2024.005

Authors

Amaya Valcárcel Silvela Jesuit Refugee Service https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8466-9648

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14422/cir.i29.y2024.005

Keywords:

minas antipersonales, bombas de racimo, Convención de Ottawa, Proceso de Ottawa, multilateralismo, Camboya, refugiados, ICBL, SJR

Abstract

The 1997 Ottawa Convention to Ban Landmines entered into force 25 years ago, on 1 March 1999 and was the result of the Ottawa Process, a freestanding process of treaty negotiation outside a United Nations-facilitated forum with the aim of outlawing anti-personnel mines. It was also a product of an unusually cohesive and strategic partnership between governments, international organizations like the ICRC, UN agencies, and civil society, represented by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). This article explains the Ottawa process, from the lens of the survivors, Jesuits and courageous religious sisters who were involved since the early stages of ICBL. Echoing Pope Francis in his recent Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, the article sets this process as an example for reconfiguring multilateralism. It also aims to be a renewed call for the banning of landmines worldwide and its clearance in places like Myanmar, Ukraine or Iraq, so that displaced people can go back safely to their lands one day.

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