Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
Erscheinungsjahr:
2021
Medientyp:
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Beschreibung:
The United Nations Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (UNCCW) is the only multilateral humanitarian arms control forum. Yet the consensus principle by which it makes decisions has repeatedly thwarted progress and is endangering the current process on the use of autonomy in weapons systems: if negotiations for a legally binding instrument are not launched in 2021, this goal is likely to be pursued outside the UNCCW. Failure to ban inhumane technology for a third time in a row would considerably damage the legitimacy of the UNCCW. To restore the UNCCW’s decision-making ability, this policy brief makes the following recommendation:
The UNCCW delegates should change their voting procedure by replacing the current consensus principle with majority voting.