IRRC No. 886

Get off my cloud: cyber warfare, international humanitarian law, and the protection of civilians

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Get off my cloud: cyber warfare, international humanitarian law, and the protection of civilians author: Cordula Droege

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Some legal challenges posed by remote attack author: William Boothby

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Pandora’s box? Drone strikes under jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international human rights law author: Stuart Casey-Maslen

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Categorization and legality of autonomous and remote weapons systems author: Hin-Yan Liu

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Nanotechnology and challenges to international humanitarian law: a preliminary legal assessment author: Hitoshi Nasu

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Conflict without casualties… a note of caution: non-lethal weapons and international humanitarian law author: Eve Massingham

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On banning autonomous weapon systems: human rights, automation, and the dehumanization of lethal decision-making author: Peter Asaro

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Beyond the Call of Duty: why shouldn’t videogame players face the same dilemmas as real soldiers? author: Ben Clarke, Christian Rouffaer, François Sénéchaud

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Documenting violations of international humanitarian law from space: a critical review of geospatial analysis of satellite imagery during armed conflicts in Gaza (2009), Georgia (2008) and Sri Lanka (2009) author: Joshua Lyons

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The role of civil society in the development of standards around new weapons and other technologies of warfare author: Brian Rappert, Anna Crowe, Richard Moyes, Thomas Nash

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The evitability of autonomous robot warfare author: Noel E. Sharkey

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A Chinese perspective on cyber war author: Li Zhang

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