Berenike Prem

Berenike Prem

Berenike Prem is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Bremen where she worked in research project on the privatization and internationalization of security. Her research concentrates on the evolving practices of warfare, with a focus on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the role of new military and security technologies. She is author of Private Military and Security Companies as Legitimate Governors: From Barricades to Boardrooms (Routledge, 2020).

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Autonomous Weapons Systems: Uncertainty and Anticipatory Norm-building

by Berenike Prem | 1 December, 2022 | International Norms in a Time of Uncertainty, International Organization, Security, Theory & Methods

Since 2014 the international community has considered the issue of autonomy in weapons systems under the framework of the United Nations (UN) Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Despite hopes that 2022 would see some kind of breakthrough, the 2019 eleven guiding principles remains the only international agreement regarding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS or AWS). Many believe that action is long overdue. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots argues that: With ongoing uncertainties around technological change and instabilities in international security, a principled...

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