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Majorities, Not Consensus: Reforming UNCCW Decision-Making
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)
Abstract 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: i... mehr
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. Emphasizing that the UNCCW must remain the main venue not only for discussing but also for resolving humanitarian arms control issues, this policy brief argues for an alternative: a procedural reform that would replace consensus voting with two-thirds majority voting.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
UNO; Rüstungskontrolle; konventionelle Waffe; Verhandlung; Entscheidungsfindung
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Review Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; politischer Entscheidungsprozess
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Erscheinungsort
Hamburg
Seitenangabe
4 S.
Schriftenreihe
IFSH Policy Brief, 01/21
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung 4.0