Statements from the 2016 CCW meeting of experts on autonomous weapons
Monday 11 April 2016
General debate
- 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
Tuesday 12 April 2016
General debate
- 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
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Panel: Challenges to International Humanitarian Law - part one
- 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
Thursday 14 April 2016
Panel: Human rights and ethical issues
- 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
Friday 15 April 2016
Panel: Security Issues - part two
- 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