About

Dr. Neil Renic is an Affiliate Researcher at IRW and a specialist on the changing character and regulation of armed conflict, the ethics of violence, and emerging military technologies. He is a Researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science. He is also a Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.

His work on the ethics of war and emerging technologies has been published extensively in academic journals, including The European Journal of International Relations, Survival, Ethics and International Affairs, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His book ‘Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos'(Oxford University Press 2020) details the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence – warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk.