New IFSH Video on Autonomous Weapons
Drones and autonomous weapons - blessing or curse?Read moreThe war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Autumn 2020 and the 2019 attack on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia show that unmanned weapons systems such as drones are now being used deliberately to…
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New Policy Brief: Reforming UNCCW Decision-Making
Prof. Dr. Elvira RosertRead moreIn the past decades, the United Nations Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (UNCCW) has heavily struggled to pass legally binding treaties. With the current process on the use of autonomy in…
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Between rejection and accession: Germany and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Oliver MeierRead moreOn 22 January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force. The 54 states parties are prohibited from possessing nuclear weapons as assisting nuclear weapons…