This is episode 4 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Nehal Bhuta is a highly respected Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He was one of the experts chosen to speak at the 2015 CCW Informal Meeting of Experts on LAWS….
This is episode 3 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Jody Williams has been a humanitarian campaigner for most of her adult life. In 1991 she began coordinating the successful Campaign to Ban Landmines and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. But she didn’t…
This is episode 3 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Jody Williams has been a humanitarian campaigner for most of her adult life. In 1991 she began coordinating the successful Campaign to Ban Landmines and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. But she didn’t…
This is episode 2 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Steve Goose has been heavily involved in the prohibition of three nasty weapons systems. In this podcast he tells us about the discussions at the CCW are panning out and compares the pace with previous…
This is episode 2 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Steve Goose has been heavily involved in the prohibition of three nasty weapons systems. In this podcast he tells us about the discussions at the CCW are panning out and compares the pace with previous campaigns….
This is episode 1 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. In this episode, after a general introduction explaining the Concentional on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons, your host, Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, interviews Michael Meier, the head of the United…
This is episode 1 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. In this episode, after a general introduction explaining the Concentional on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons, your host, Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, interviews Michael Meier, the head of the United States…
Today sees the launch of the official ICRAC Podcast series. The first couple of episodes were recorded at the Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting of experts hosted at the United Nations in Geneva between April 13 and 17 2015. This was a discussion of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), the CCW term for ‘Killer Robots’….
On April 17th, ICRAC’s Dr. Matthew Bolton delivered the following closing statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. ICRAC Closing Statement to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Informal Meeting of Experts at the United Nations in Geneva Thank you Mr. Chairperson, Distinguished Delegates, The International Committee for Robot Arms Control…
On Thursday April 16, ICRAC’s Dr. Peter Asaro delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva: Thank you Mr. Chair. In response to China’s question, a number of security experts have pointed to the danger of mass attack by conventional weapons on strategically important installations. Autonomous weapons would…