Events

Events

Event Date

September 12, 2018

Venue

Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom

What role for law in the protection of civilians in modern armed conflict?

Dmytro Chupryna, Airwars’ Deputy Director is participating in a panel discussion on the occasion of the publication of the book ‘The Grey Zone: Civilian protection between human rights and the laws of war’, referred to an institutional vacuum in the area of international humanitarian law implementation intended to protect civilians.

Event Date

September 1, 2018

Venue

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yemen Humanitarian Workshop

Airwars Syria Researcher Abdulwahab Tahhan is presenting about the importance of monitoring and archiving; and how it’s carried out on a daily basis, at a workshop aimed at discussing lessons learned from other conflicts, such as the one in Syria, and what practices might be shared with researchers in Yemen to help better document the war, and advocate on behalf of affected civilians.

Event Date

August 31, 2018

Venue

Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Drone Proliferation and Use in Africa: Security risks and strategic considerations

Airwars Libya researcher, Osama Mansour, presents on our findings on Libya at the first conference of the project “Transnational Academic Network for the Study of Armed Drones” (TRANSAD), followed by discussions on the use of drones and other state-of-the-art warfare, as citizens continue to be regular casualties of drone strikes.