Dr. Neil Renic

From 2019 until 2022, Neil Renic worked as a researcher at the IFSH. Prior to this, he lectured international security and peace and conflict analysis at the University of Queensland, Australia. He received his doctorate (2015-2018) from the University of Queensland. During this time, he spent twelve months as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. Neil Renic’s PhD addressed the moral right to kill in war, and the extent to which this right is challenged by the growing capability of certain states to kill with little or no physical risk to their own forces.

Neil Renic focusses on the changing character of war and the ethical and legal regulation of armed conflict. In this context, he is investigating the extent to which, and in what way, the timing of the legal regulation of battlefield weapons and techniques matters. Alongside this, he explores historical misconceptions of technology, and their enduring role in shaping our understanding and governance of war. His latest book, published with Oxford University Press, is titled: Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos.