Lessons from the Mine Ban Movement for the Fossil Fuel Treaty network
Date: 22nd May 2025 | Timings (one session): 3 PM - 4PM UTC / 11 AM EST | Live translations: Available in Spanish and French
As we consider approaches to ensure governments begin negotiating a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, it’s time to learn from one of the most impressive campaigns of our time - the push for negotiation of a Mine Ban Treaty.
How did a global civil society coalition, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, put the issue on the international agenda and redefine it as a crisis that could be stopped?
How did governments like Canada and others work together in creating a new diplomacy, cooperating in an unprecedented fashion with one another, civil society and the UN to forge a new Treaty, bridging international disarmament and humanitarian law?
How did they establish a new global norm, in record time, that would ban these indiscriminate weapons, protect people from harm and fear, save lives, support survivors and return land to communities?
And what can we learn from this historic campaign in the push to now negotiate a similar framework to keep fossil fuels in the ground?
Join us as we hear from two powerful voices who helped take the Mine Ban Treaty from a dream to reality:
Jill Sinclair, former diplomat, who provided leadership at the Government of Canada and helped create “the Ottawa Process” that resulted in the Mine Ban Treaty
Mary Wareham, deputy director of the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, who played a pivotal role coordinating civil society through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.