On 8 June 2022, IRW’s Prototype Warfare project will host a symposium in collaboration with the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) to discuss the current state of the development, deployment, and regulation of autonomy in defence systems with military commanders, academics, journalists, students, and representatives of start-ups and NGOs.

IRW and partners reflect on the recent policy changes they helped shape

IRW is excited to announce our new Community Engaged Learning project under the Prototype Warfare programme.

This IRW project develops a fuller understanding of how humans shape technologies, and how technologies shape our actions in warfare.

PAX tells Airwars what they observed and heard while walking through Hawija and talking to the victims of the 2015 Dutch airstrike that killed 70 and destroyed over 400 buildings.

Internship Opportunity at the Intimacies of Remote Warfare. We are looking for a new Project Officer to join our small team.

In this post, we provide the statement from the consortium of civil society organisations, including IRW, which reflects on the “Roadmap Process” with the Dutch MoD.

Today marks 6 years exactly since the Dutch airstrike on Hawija. Researchers at IRW Isa Zoetbrood and Guusje Bloemen together with Ali Maleki, research consultant at PAX for peace, introduce our joint ongoing research with local partner Al-Ghad that investigates the civilian harm effects of the airstrike.

The IRW teams up with Pax and introduces a new Community Engagement Learning project to study the reverberating effects of the Dutch airstike on Hawija, Iraq.

IRW works with the Dutch MoD to review the way in which it deals with, reports on and accounts for civilian harm as a consequence of Dutch military efforts.