Former IRW intern Laszlo Steinwaerder has been nominated for the ‘Visions on Peace’ master thesis prize. Join the presentation of his thesis at the annual symposium by the Dutch Foundation of Peace Research.

Join IRW for a public lecture by Prof. R.J. Gonzales focusing on the rise of algorithmic policing in the United States.

Join IRW at the Travelling Technologies Symposium on the 1st of December 2023.

IRW project leader dr. Lauren Gould and co-author dr. Marijn Hoijtink will be presenting the latest iteration of their article on information-driven and algorithmic warfare at the ISA conference in Montreal on the 15th of March 2023. They wrote the article with previous IRW researchers Jack Davies and Martine Jaarsma. The article reflects on yet

Utrecht University’s Intimacies of Remote Warfare programme (IRW) and their societal partners PAX and Al-Ghad expose the reverberating civilian harm effects of remote warfare in their report ‘After The Strike’.

On March 25 to 27, the Disruption Network Lab organizes its 26th conference: The Kill Cloud. Through various panels and workshops with veterans, whistleblowers, and professionals, attendees will dive deeper into the real-world implications of networked warfare, drones, and artificial intelligence. The conference takes place in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, and will be streamed live for

Dr Lauren Gould contributes to a panel discussion on the 2015 Dutch bombardment of Hawija for the annual PAX Protection of Civilians Conference

Contemporary warfare is becoming increasingly defined by distance. Instead of deploying large numbers of boots on the ground, many Western and non-Western states rely on support and training for local actors, employment of private military contractors and remote weaponry for airstrikes and surveillance This is remote warfare, the dominant method of military engagement employed by

Founders of IRW Dr. Lauren Gould and Prof. Dr. Jolle Demmers will be contributing to the digital workshop “Prototype Warfare”: New Regimes of Computation, Innovation and War

[Video] IRW Director Dr. Lauren Gould spoke at online Symposium hosted by PAX called The War of Tomorrow: How are novel military technologies changing modern conflicts?