Essays about: "autonomous weapons"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words autonomous weapons.

  1. 1. Autonomous Weapons Systems in Law Enforcement : Potential threat towards the most fundamental of human rights?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Mattias Leppänen; [2021]
    Keywords : Autonomous Weapons Systems; law enforcement; human rights;

    Abstract : This paper focuses on that less researched area of the emergence of autonomous weapons systems. The point of this thesis is to research and map out this relatively under researched area, with the goal of answering research questions, and ending the thesis with an attempt at creating a hypothesis based on the conducted research. READ MORE

  3. 2. Security or Security Issue of Tomorrow? Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems : A critical discourse analysis of securitization of LAWS in German political-institutional dabates

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Ronja Schahira Kaya Metzger; [2021]
    Keywords : Lethal autonomous Weapons Systems; Securitization; Convention on Conventional Weapons; CCW; weapons control; Germany;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the role of Legal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) in the German institutional-political landscape is examined. The effort guiding the thesis is to uncover and understand how LAWS have been constructed in the German institutional-political discourse from 2017-2021. READ MORE

  4. 3. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Humanitarian Law: A mixed-methods study to understand and explain how states’ position themselves vis-à-vis lethal autonomous weapons systems compliance with international humanitarian law

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Emelie Andersin; [2020-11-17]
    Keywords : lethal autonomous weapons systems; cluster munitions; convention on cluster munitions; international humanitarian law; compliance; just war theory;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to understand and explain how states’ position themselves vis-à-vis lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL). It is important to understand and explain why states’ position themselves in the debate on LAWS compliance with IHL due to its rapid development and limited knowledge in this area. READ MORE

  5. 4. Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Institutional definitions in the light of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Amanda Musco Eklund; [2020]
    Keywords : Meaningful human control; human judgement; autonomous weapon systems; LAWS; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; human-machine interaction; artificial intelligence; United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.;

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  6. 5. Antipreneurial behavior in conflict over norms: A case study on the resistance of nation-states against a preventive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Felix Sippel; [2020]
    Keywords : norms; antipreneurs; norm resistance; lethal autonomous weapons systems; artificial intelligence; international security;

    Abstract : Since 2014, the international community has been discussing how to deal with the emergence of increasingly autonomous weapons systems under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. This case study examines the behavior of those nation-states that oppose a preventive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems in this forum. READ MORE