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Overcoming the disconnect: environmental protection and armed conflicts

Overcoming the disconnect: environmental protection and armed conflicts

May 27, 2021 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Ambassador Marja Lehto

Environmental effects of armed conflicts do not only result from the conduct of hostilities but ...

Ethics as a source of law: The Martens clause and autonomous weapons

Ethics as a source of law: The Martens clause and autonomous weapons

November 14, 2017 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Rob Sparrow

Ethics evolves, the law changes. In this way, moral progress may occur. Yet the relation ...

Introduction to Mini-Series: Autonomous weapon systems and ethics

Introduction to Mini-Series: Autonomous weapon systems and ethics

October 4, 2017 2 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons

Autonomous weapon systems & the dictates of public conscience: An ethical basis for human control? On 28–29 August 2017, the ICRC convened a ...