The future urban battlefield: Implications of new technologies
… with urban warfare: cyber capabilities, autonomous weapon systems and human modification …
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5 myths about the Geneva Conventions as they turn 70
… in cyberspace and new technologies such as autonomous weapons systems. The ICRC is concerned about … basic issues surrounding new technology and weapons, in particular the humanitarian …
The challenges for humanitarian action in today’s conflicts: the perspective from the International Committee of the Red Cross
… of warfare, the widespread availability of weapons and high levels of criminal violence … Advancing technologies are giving rise to new weapons and modes of warfare and in turn … the potentially indiscriminate impacts of autonomous weapons and the profound ethical …
Third report on the EU guidelines on promoting compliance with IHL
… in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), its Protocols, the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, the Anti-Personnel … reporting period. These consisted of 25 EU autonomous sanctions regimes, in addition to …
Current issues in IHL- interview with Director of International Law and Policy, ICRC
… use and methods of warfare, and the types of weapons to be used. So it is very important … area of new technologies too, cyber warfare, autonomous weapons, and even outer space law, we really …
The challenges of new technologies in warfare
… new? - Interview with Noel Sharkey 7/9) Autonomous weapons, cyber warfare and drones - Interview …
75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions – “The one set of rules we all agree on”
… warfare New challenges such as cyber warfare, autonomous weapons and the use of weapons in outer space have become reality in …
ICRC perspectives on the protection of children
… impacted by unregulated or illegal use of weapons from small arms to land mines and … of warfare such as cyber operations, autonomous weapons systems and militarisation of outer …
Humanitarian perspectives on international security in times of mutating conflicts Geneva Centre for Peace and Security
… to the transformation of battlefields, weapons, arms bearers and victims in armed … from: The use of military force, between autonomous political actors, as a mean of … no longer construed or understood strictly as autonomous political organizations confronting …
“Lest the ghosts of Guernica keep haunting us…”
… achieving the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons suddenly seems to have become a race … , artificial intelligence, and increasingly autonomous weapons systems ? How are we to mitigate the …
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