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.
This round-up looks at the military-tech complex including exploration of robots on the battlefield, acquisition of armed drones and the consequences of drone warfare for the pilots operating them.
Join us at the IRW summer school ‘Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues and Technologies of 21st Century Warfare’ from the 19th to 30th of July.
In this weeks round-up, we answer some of the main questions regarding the U.S pull out from Afghanistan and how this may lead to more remote warfare in the country’s future.
The Remote Warfare roundup is a bi-weekly digest of unfolding news, op-eds and reports relevant to remote warfare.
In their 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.
The Remote Warfare roundup is a bi-weekly digest of unfolding news, op-eds and reports relevant to remote warfare.
[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?
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.
Don’t miss IRW Director Dr Lauren Gould speaking about how novel military technologies are changing modern conflict at NGO PAX’s online symposium.