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Statements from the 2016 CCW meeting of experts on autonomous weapons

General debate

Monday 11 April 2016

• President-designate of CCW, Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan
• Chair, Ambassador Michael Biontino of Germany
• Japan
• Switzerland
• Sri Lanka
• France
• Pakistan
• Morocco
• Poland
• Sweden
• Holy See
• Germany
• United States
• Algeria
• Costa Rica
• India
• South Africa
• Australia 
• Canada
• Netherlands
• Ireland
• Russia
• United Kingdom
• Italy
• Austria
• Republic of Korea
• Mexico
• Zambia
• Finland
• New Zealand
• China
• Sierra Leone
• Cuba
• Turkey
• Spain
• Ecuador
• Israel 

 

Panel: Mapping autonomy

• Dr. Vincent Boulanin
• Dr. Heather M. Roff
• Mark Hoepflinger
• David Shim
• Leon Kester
• Didier Danet

 

General debate

Tuesday 12 April 2016

• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR, Japan) 
• Article 36
• Human Rights Watch
• International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC)
• Mines Action Canada
• PAX
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• Center for a New American Security
• Nobel Women's Initiative

 

Panel: Towards a working definition of LAWS - part one

• Gro Nystuen, Center on International Humanitarian Law, International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI), Oslo, Norway
• Chris Jenks, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas, USA
• Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University & international Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
• Wendell Wallach, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, USA
• Interventions
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• France
• Russia
• Brazil
• Italy
• Switzerland
• India
• Pakistan
• Netherlands 
• China
• Japan
• Cuba
• Poland
• Egypt
• Ireland
• Russia

 

Panel: Towards a working definition of LAWS - part two

• Anja Dahlmann, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
• Richard Moyes, Article 36
• Merel Ekelahof, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Dan Saxon, Leiden University College, The Hague, Netherlands
• Interventions
• Sierra Leone
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Colombia
• China
• India

 

Panel: Challenges to International Humanitarian Law - part one

Wednesday 13 April 2016

• Gilles Giacca, Arms Unit, Legal Division, ICRC
• Lt. Col. Christopher M. Ford, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law
• Kimberly Trapp, Faculty of Laws, University College London, UK
• Neha Jain, University of Minnesota, USA
• Interventions
• France
• Poland
• China
• Netherlands
• Brazil
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• India
• Sierra Leone
• Philippines
• Norway
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Belgium
• New Zealand
• Japan
• United States
• Iraq
• Israel
• Mines Action Canada
• Russia

 

Panel: Challenges to International Humanitarian Law - part two

• Robin Geiss, University of Glasgow, UK
• Cecile Hellestveit, International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI), Oslo, Norway
• Roberta Arnold, former legal adviser on the Laws of Armed Conflict, Federal Attorney General's Office
• Martin Hagstrom, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden
• Interventions
• Cuba
• Mexico
• China
• Germany
• Pakistan
• Algeria
• Brazil 
• Human Rights Watch

 

Panel: Human rights and ethical issues

Thursday 14 April 2016

• Christof Heynes, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Eliav Lieblich, Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
• Daniele Boucrier, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Science Administrative (CERSA), France
• Pablo Kalmanovitz, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
• Interventions
• Canada
• Poland
• Chile
• Brazil 
• Cuba
• Egypt
• United States
• Sierra Leone
• France
• Ireland
• Russia
• India
• Algeria
• Amnesty International
• China
• Norway
• Nobel Women's Initiative
• Costa Rica 

 

Panel: Security Issues - part one

• Jayantha Dhanapala, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
• Vadim Kozyulin, PIR Center, Russia
• Denise Garcia, Department of Political Science and the International Affairs program, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
• Eneken Tikk-Ringas, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Interventions
• China 
• Pakistan
• ICRAC

 

Panel: Security Issues - part two

Friday 15 April 2016

• Jai Galliott, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Katrine Norgaard, Institute of Leadership and Organization, Royal Danish Defence College
• Collin S. L. Koh, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• John Borrie, UNIDIR & Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) 
• Interventions
• Canada
• China
• India
• ICRAC
• Pakistan
• Concluding Session

 

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