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 ...

Legal reviews of weapons, means and methods of warfare involving artificial intelligence: 16 elements to consider

March 21, 2019 13 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / The most read blog posts in 2019 / Weapons Dustin A. Lewis

What are some of the chief concerns in contemporary debates around legal reviews of weapons, ...