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Governments should protect the integrity of the international treaty banning #ChemicalWeapons by fully implementing it & by ensuring accountability for any violations - @hrw on the Review Conference, which opens in the Hague today hrw.org/news/2023/05/1… #CWCRevcon
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@hrw @henkvdKwast @minbuza @balkeesjarrah @loucharbon @OPCW @OPCW_ST @UN_Disarmament @INakamitsu @cwccoalition The #ChemicalWeapons Convention is the world’s most universally accepted humanitarian disarmament treaty. At least 140 of the 193 countries that have ratified it will attend the milestone 5th Review Conference in the Hague this week #CWCRevcon #RevCon5
I'm attending the 5th Review Conference of the #ChemicalWeapons Convention this week. It's @hrw's first participation in a CWC meeting after years of being denied entry. Yet inexplicably other civil society groups are still blocked hrw.org/news/2023/05/1… #CWCRevCon #RevCon5 Image
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I had the opportunity to attend the #NATO-Industry Forum in Berlin yesterday and the day before, and to moderate the session on autonomy in warfare. A few observations (thread)
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EU-NATO relations were a big topic, with lots of discussion of the European Defence Fund, PESCO, etc. Everyone, including EU commissioner @EBienkowskaEU and Gen Sec Stoltenberg emphasised that Europe's defence efforts are complementary and not in competition with NATO...
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...and yet, the fact that this needs to be continuously emphasised at least points to some worries somewhere.
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.@WestworldHBO makes an excellent (STS) point about artificial intelligence and autonomous systems: it's not the technology that is scary, what is scary is technology says about us.

#power #AutonomousWeapons #racism #classism
Luckily this also creates space for reflexivity, in the way art, literature and science can help us understand ourselves and our societies.

'We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us'.
.@WestworldHBO also clearly reiterates that we should not fall into the trap of technological determinism, but that doesn't mean that technology doesn't have its own materiality.

'Technology is a very human activity - and so is the history of technology.'
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Have you been ignoring #autonomousweapons for the past 18 months and are now suddenly scrambling to catch up before the #CCWUN #LAWS #GGE next week? (You know who you are...) Congrats, your procrastination has been rewarded! Here's your handy autonomous weapons reading list... 1/
First, homework. The official #CCWUN food-for-thought paper by the chair. Gotta read it. Super short, tho. undocs.org/ccw/gge.1/2017… 2/
Country paper by the Netherlands: undocs.org/ccw/gge.1/2017… 3/
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