On 1st April, the Global Governance Institute (GGI) in close cooperation with the Global Challenges Foundation (GCF) in Stockholm will host a full-day expert workshop on “The Global Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Policy Gaps, Regulation Challenges and Governance Opportunities”. The workshop will bring together 25 experts and representatives from the realm of diplomacy, security and defence, civil society, regional and global policy-making as well as academia to assess the current state of the risks of autonomous weapon systems, advances and limitations of current governance initiatives and ways ahead for more effective approaches to governing autonomous weapon systems in the year ahead.
Amidst the rapid proliferation of the development and use of autonomous weapon systems in a wide range of conflicts and multilateral processes (such as the CCW UN GEE process in Geneva, discussions at the level of the UN Secretary General and General Assembly, various regional and state-led processes and campaigns by civil society groups as well as important voices from the fields of academia and research) entering a decisive phase in 2025, the workshop seeks to bring together leading experts to engage in collective deliberations and exchanges of views on the ways ahead.
The workshop is by invitation only and discussions will guided by Chatham house rules. Insights and main takeaways from the discussions will inform a policy report, which will be made publicly available after the event.
The workshop is part of the research and policy advice project “The Global Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Policy Gaps, Regulation Challenges and Governance Opportunities”. The project, carried out in partnership with the Global Challenges Foundation (GCF) in Stockholm examines the complex challenges as well as various actors’ recent, current and future approaches related to governing and regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS), including lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS).
For further information on the project, please visit the project page.
