Sacrificial Violence and Targeting in International Humanitarian Law

Sacrificial Violence and Targeting in International Humanitarian Law

humanitarian intervention and international law

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Humans, Agents and International Humanitarian Law: Dilemmas in Target Discrimination

The severity of the (potential) consequences of the use of agents in the military domain imperatively necessitates research on the application of the law of armed conflict, which provides ‘constraints’ on ‘human’ warfare. In this paper, one of the main principles of that law, target discrimination, is used to highlight legal and ethical dilemmas involving the use of autonomous agents. The incid...

International Humanitarian Law and the Environment by Professor Alexandre Kiss

Weaponising neurotechnology: international humanitarian law and the loss of language

In recent years, research on military applications of neuroscience has grown in sophistication, raising the question as to whether states using weapon systems that draw on neuroscience are capable of applying international humanitarian law (IHL) to that use. I argue that neuroweapons largely eliminate the role of language in targeting, render unstable the distinction between superior and subord...