Author: mattgold

At this year’s annual meeting of the “Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security” (FONAS), which took place from 28th to 29th September 2022 in Darmstadt, Germany, Stephanie Schmidt (Universität Hamburg) presented our project. The mission of FONAS is to promote the scientific work in the context of disarmament, international security and international peace. Accordingly the presentations over these two days primarily came from the fields of scientific-technical peace and conflict research as well as peace computer science on biological and nuclear security. These included fascinating presentations by Jürgen Altmann (TU Darmstadt), Ole Lemke (Universität Bochum ), Christian Reuter (PEASEC), Stefka Schmidt (PEASEC), Jonas Franken (PEASEC), Laura Guntrum (PEASEC), Gunnar Jeremias (ZNF), Dunja Sabra (ZNF), Benjamin Jung (RWTH Aachen), Max Schalz (RWTH Aachen), Lisa Beumer (FZ Jülich), Bernd Hrdy (BOKU Vienna), and Ingo Kock (BASE).

Information about the conference program and on FONAS can be found here.

Jutta Weber (Paderborn University) and Christoph Ernst (University of Bonn) organized a panel together with Katherine Chandler (Georgetown Univerity) at the European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology (EASST) in Madrid (6.-9. July 2022) on the subject “Meaningful Human Control? Sociotechnical Imaginations of AI, Drone Swarms and the Future of Warfare“. In two sessions, presentations were given by Zacharie Boubli (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris), Ivan Chaar Lopez (University of Texas at Austin), Andreas Immanuel Graae (Royal Danish Defence College), Thomas Bächle (University of Bonn) & Jascha Bareis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Sofie van der Maarel (Radboud University and Netherlands Defence Academy), Anna-Katharina Ferl (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt), Hendrik Bender (University Siegen). The presentations were bracketed by contributions of the three organisers of the panel. Both sessions were attended by many participants of the conference with great interest.

The German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt reported on the research project on 22/02/2022 in an online article. Find out more in the article “Universität Paderborn: Forschungsverbund hinterfragt autonome Waffensysteme”.