IRW introduces a new Community Engagement Learning project which will study how the Dutch airstike on Hawija figures in the imaginations of those affected.

Don’t miss IRW Director Dr Lauren Gould speaking about how novel military technologies are changing modern conflict at NGO PAX’s online symposium.

In their contributed chapter in the new ‘Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ E-IR book, IRW’s Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould explore how the secrecy surrounding remote warfare removes war from public debate and potentially makes states more violent.

In his latest op-ed published in the daily paper Trouw, Jip van Dort raises a rather sinister question: What exactly do we (or are we allowed to) know about the dark side of warfare, specifically about civilian casualties?

The notion that deploying drones will enable militaries to conduct war with greater precision and less civilian harm is neither new, nor accurate argues the IRW team in an op-ed for the NRC.

Watch Intimacies of Remote Warfare project founder Prof. Jolle Demmers tackling the big questions surrounding remote warfare and call for more transparency in her recent talk for Stadium Generale.

‘The conversation is not about the morality of going to war, but rather the technology of winning’ claims former US Marine Anthony Swofford in article for MIT Technology Review.

Whilst a deluge of video clips showing drone-captured footage of air and missile strikes on seemingly defenceless ground vehicles led some to proclaim the ‘death of the tank’, this may have been an overestimation of the real impact drones had in the conflict.

A panel of experts discuss current trends, initiatives, and opportunities in building meaningful standards on the proliferation and use of armed drones.

This webinar addresses the trends in global drone development and use, and discusses where campaigners should be focusing their efforts in the coming years.