Topic: 2024-Indiscriminate Weapons
Country: Ghana
Delegate Name: Sam Ogilvie
Delegate Name: Sam Ogilvie
Country: Ghana
Committee: DISEC
Topic: Indiscriminate Weapons
Indiscriminate weapons are weapons that cannot be controlled to target only specific military objectives or combatants, making them inherently capable of causing widespread, unintended harm to civilians and non-combatants. These weapons do not distinguish between legitimate military targets and civilian populations, and as a result, their use can result in excessive collateral damage. These can include nuclear weapons, landmines, and biological and chemical weapons.
Ghana has been extremely opposed to the use of Indiscriminate weapons in their support of global peace. In the past, Ghana has begun disarming nuclear weapons due to their signing of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Additionally, Ghana’s government has also signed the treaty of Ottawa which ultimately puts a ban on all use of landmines, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. Ghana has followed through with the treaty of Ottawa, actively assisting other African countries plagued with civil wars and other conflicts, helping them de-mine different areas. Ghana also has many separate organizations that act to prohibit the use of the development, production, or stockpiling of either biological or chemical weapons. These organizations are known as the CWC and the BWC.
Ghana is planning to make efforts to raise awareness of the humanitarian impact of these harmful weapons. This is part of a plan to promote humanitarian approaches to disarmament. Along with spreading awareness, Ghana also wants to bring these issues to the African Union, and the United Nations to increase the peacekeeping operations and increase support in West Africa, working with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lessen the flow of indiscriminate weapons into conflict zones. Finally, Ghana is pushing for peace and further focus on building partnerships and promoting cooperative communication between states to address security concerns.
