Preventing and eradicating the deadly legacy of explosive remnants of war

February 23, 2023 13 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Eirini Giorgou

The deadly legacy of armed conflict continues to claim lives long after the fighting is ...

Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare

January 20, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Weapons Klaudia Klonowska

Debates concerning the regulation of choices made by States in conducting hostilities are often limited ...

A victory for humanity

January 21, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Peter Maurer & Yoshiharu Otsuka

The landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force on Friday, ...

50 steps to a mine-free world by 2025

December 19, 2019 7 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Landmines and the Law / Weapons Ambassador Hans Brattskar

Renewed political commitment to implementing the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) and an ambitious action ...

Moving beyond mine risk education to risk awareness and safer behaviour

November 7, 2019 6 mins read Humanitarian Action / Landmines and the Law / Law and Conflict / Weapons Louis G. Maresca

A recent blog piece by Chris Loughran highlighted the important achievements of the Anti-Personnel Mine ...

The Mine Ban Convention, Article 5 & 2019 Review Conference: need for urgent action

October 15, 2019 10 mins read Generating Respect for IHL / Landmines and the Law / Law and Conflict / Religion / Weapons Chris Loughran

The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) entered into force 20 years ago this year. It ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems: When is the right time to regulate?

September 26, 2019 10 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Neil C. Renic

Those wishing to control the spread and use of autonomous weapons systems generally favour pre-emptive ...

IEDs and the Mine Ban Convention: a minefield of definitions?

September 17, 2019 12 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Landmines and the Law / Law and Conflict / Weapons Wen Zhou & Andrea Raab

The year 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Anti-Personnel ...

Courage, responsibility and the path towards a world without nuclear weapons: a message to youth

August 21, 2019 10 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Magnus Løvold

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted in July 2017, is the first ...

Legal regulation of AI weapons under international humanitarian law: A Chinese perspective

May 2, 2019 9 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2019 / Weapons Qiang Li & Dan Xie

Arguably, international humanitarian law (IHL) evolves with the development of emerging technologies. The history of ...

Safety net or tangled web: Legal reviews of AI in weapons and war-fighting

April 18, 2019 11 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Netta Goussac

Editor’s note: For those interested in the topic of legal reviews of weapons, it is ...

Enhanced distinction: The need for a more focused autonomous weapons targeting discussion at the LAWS GGE

March 28, 2019 10 mins read Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons John Cherry & Christopher Korpela

The meeting of the Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) has been taking place in Geneva this week. This ...