Treasa Dunworth is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has acted as consultant for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, providing legal advice regarding nuclear weapons disarmament. In 2017, she joined the delegation of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the negotiations for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Treaty.

1. Introduction; 2. The Origins of Humanitarian Disarmament; 3. The Manhattan Project to 'Operation Rolling Thunder': Humanitarian Disarmament Sidelined; 4. Humanitarian Disarmament Rising: The Vietnam War and the Campaigns Against Indiscriminate Weapons; 5. Humanitarian Disarmament Triumphant? The Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997; 6. Humanitarian Disarmament Consolidated? The Convention of Cluster Munitions; 7. Humanitarian Disarmament Campaigns Against Nuclear Weapons; 8. Rethinking Humanitarian Disarmament; 9. Conclusion