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Explosive weapons
Report on a workshop examining military policies and practices on the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Workshop report
October 2018
Explosive weapons: Protecting civilians from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Report
September 2018
Select committee inquiry submission
July 2018
Explosive Weapons – Factors that produce wide area effects
Fact sheet
June 2018
Policy Paper
November 2017
Areas of harm: Understanding explosive weapons with wide area effects
October 2016
Report
Damage to the built environment from the use of explosive weapons
September 2013
Briefing Paper
The impact of explosive violence on mental health and psycho-social well-being
September 2013
Briefing Paper
Heavy weapons and civilian protection
August 2012
Briefing Paper
State use of explosive weapons an indicator of crisis
January 2012
Briefing Paper
Nuclear weapons
July 2018
Briefing paper
June 2017
Working paper submitted to the negotiating conference
Key points: Victim assistance in the nuclear weapon ban treaty
June 2017
Summary paper, submitted as a working paper to negotiation conference
Victim assistance in the nuclear weapon ban treaty: a comprehensive and detailed approach
June 2017
Briefing paper
Key points: Environmental remediation in the nuclear weapon ban treaty
June 2017
Summary paper, submitted as a working paper to negotiation conference
Environmental remediation in the nuclear weapon ban treaty: A comprehensive and detailed approach
June 2017
Briefing paper
Positive Obligations in a Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: Stockpile Destruction, Environmental Remediation, and Victim Assistance
March 2017
Working paper submitted to negotiation conference
The underrepresentation of low-income countries in nuclear disarmament forums
May 2015
Discussion paper
Filling the legal gap: The prohibition of nuclear weapons
May 2015
Briefing paper
Economic impacts of a nuclear weapons detonation
March 2015
Briefing paper
The effects of nuclear weapons under international law
December 2014
Briefing paper
Nuclear disarmament and the humanitarian initiative: making sense of the NPT in 2014
May 2014
Briefing Paper
Nuclear weapon free zones and banning nuclear weapons
May 2014
Briefing paper
A Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons: Developing a legal framework for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons
April 2014
Report
Nuclear risk: The British case
February 2014
Briefing Paper
Banning nuclear weapons: responses to ten criticisms
December 2013
Briefing Paper
Banning nuclear weapons without the nuclear armed States
October 2013
Briefing Paper
Banning Nuclear Weapons
February 2013
Report
Humanitarian Consequences: short case study of the direct humanitarian impacts from a single nuclear weapon detonation on Manchester, UK
February 2013
Report
Autonomous weapons
Target profiles
An initial consideration of ‘target profiles’ as a basis for rule-making in the context of discussions on autonomy in weapons systems. August 2019
Shifting definitions – the UK and Autonomous Weapons Systems
Briefing note
July 2018
Autonomous weapon systems: Evaluating the capacity for ‘meaningful human control’ in weapon review processes
Discussion paper
November 2017
Written submission by Article 36 to the Science and Technology Committee inquiry into robotics and artificial intelligence
Select committee inquiry submission
April 2016
Key elements of meaningful human control
Briefing paper
April 2016
Meaningful Human Control, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapons
Briefing paper
April 2016
Article 36 reviews and addressing Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Briefing paper
April 2016
The United Kingdom and lethal autonomous weapons systems
Briefing paper
April 2016
Killing by machine: Key issues for understanding meaningful human control
April 2015
Wall chart
Briefing note for UK parliamentary roundtable ahead of the CCW meeting on ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’
March 2015
Key areas for debate on autonomous weapons systems
May 2014
Briefing Paper
Structuring debate on autonomous weapons systems
October 2013
Briefing Paper
Killer robots: UK Government Policy on Fully Autonomous Weapons
April 2013
Briefing Paper
New technologies
Swarms
Briefing Paper
April 2019
Hypersonic weapons
Discussion Paper
February 2019
Acoustic weapons
Discussion Paper
November 2018
Science, technology and weaponization: preliminary observations
Briefing Paper
November 2017
Nanoweapons
Briefing Paper
November 2017
Directed Energy Weapons
Briefing Paper
November 2017
Drones in the use of force
Mapping: International activity by states and the UN on armed drones
Mapping of state and UN policy positions
Last updated July 2019
Drones in the use of force: A way forward
Briefing paper
October 2018
Approaches to technology and policy: International standards and addressing drones in the use of force
Briefing paper
October 2018
Submission of Written Evidence to the APPG Inquiry into the Use of Armed Drones: Drone Strikes, Legal Reasoning and the Need for Transparency
With Dr Michael Mair and Alex Holder, University of Liverpool
December 2017
The Humanitarian Impact of Armed Drones
October 2017
Report
Sex and drone strikes
October 2014
Briefing Paper
Protecting education from attack
Reflections from the Safe Schools Declaration process for future international political commitments on civilian protection
Discussion paper
August 2019
Data collection and the Safe Schools Declaration: building upon current practice
Discussion paper
December 2018
Humanitarian mine action and protecting education in emergencies: Making the links through the Safe Schools Declaration
Discussion paper
November 2018
Underrepresentation in multilateral forums
Patterns in participation: the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, 2010-14
November 2016
Briefing paper
Disarmament, development and patterns of marginalisation in international forums
April 2016
Report
Women and multilateral disarmament forums: Patterns of underrepresentation
Discussion paper
October 2015
Select committee inquiry submission
September 2015
The underrepresentation of low-income countries in nuclear disarmament forums
May 2015
Discussion paper
Working in global coalitions
Global coalitions: An introduction to working in international civil society partnerships
Report – also available on this interactive microsite
December 2011
Other topics and cross-cutting work
Refusal to condemn cluster munition use undermines UK claims to leadership on the protection of civilians
Briefing Paper
September 2015
Some key issues in humanitarian disarmament
October 2013
Wall Chart
Casualty recording, critical argument and campaigning against weapons
October 2013
Briefing Paper
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