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, ...
100 ratifications of the Arms Trade Treaty: Celebration and reflection February 7, 2019 5 mins read Law and Conflict / Weapons Helen Durham As Director of International Law and Policy, I have the privilege of regularly representing the ICRC at the United Nations and other diplomatic ...
Is arms control over emerging technologies just a peacetime luxury? Lessons learned from the First World War January 18, 2019 14 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Eric Germain At the turn of the twentieth century, many engineers with fertile imaginations—from France’s Gustave Gabet to America’s Orville Wright—hoped that their inventions would ...
Machine autonomy and the constant care obligation December 11, 2018 11 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Chris Jenks & Rain Liivoja The debate about the way the international community should deal with autonomous weapon systems has ...
