“Our democracy has been damaged by our deployment in Afghanistan”
Read the latest op-ed by IRW PhD candidate Jip Van Dort about the how the secrecy of Dutch military actions in Afghanistan is hurting democracy at home.
Read the latest op-ed by IRW PhD candidate Jip Van Dort about the how the secrecy of Dutch military actions in Afghanistan is hurting democracy at home.
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.
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.
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.
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?