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Why No Fuss about Mines and UXO after the Vietnam War?
Earlier this year I presented at a conference on peace movements during and after the Cold War. I tried to understand why it was that efforts to mitigate and raise awareness of the impact of mines and...
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Kampala Action Plan
Representatives of over 40 African countries met in Kampala 29-30 September to discuss the Cluster Munition Convention, which will be signed by over 100 states in Oslo in December. They released the...
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Victory for Norm Against Cluster Munitions!
The campaign against cluster munitions successfully defeated an attempt to undermine the Cluster Munition Ban at a conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons last week. Over 50 states, led by...
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Ban Autonomous Armed Robots!
The rapid development of autonomy in robotics — the ability of robots to make decisions independently of human involvement — means we are on the cusp of a technological revolution in the way weapons...
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Why I Have Joined the International Committee on Robot Arms Control
“Military robots and remote-controlled weapons pose a range of concerns but a line should be drawn at fully autonomous weapons,” says Article 36, one of several advocacy organizations calling for...
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Nobel Prize for Chemical Weapons Organization Inspires Humanitarian...
Last Friday, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.” Unsurprisingly, the Nobel...
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“Growing autonomy in weapons poses a grave threat to humanitarian and human...
I was quoted today in article on growing autonomy in naval weapons, saying: “Growing autonomy in weapons poses a grave threat to humanitarian and human rights law, as well as international peace and...
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