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Day 1: 12 July 2012 School of Management (Room 32 MS 01) 0815 – 0900 Registration and Coffee 0900- 0915 Welcome from the Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Christopher Snowden 0915 – 1015 Keynote speaker Dr Jamie Shea – The political and strategic consequences for NATO of the evolution in the way wars are perceived and fought. 1015 – 1045 Coffee 1045-1215 Panel 1 Theorising the Drivers and Consequences of Precision-Strike Capabilities: Dr T Dyson: Europe’s selective emulation of the RMA: Explaining convergence and differentiation Mr U Haeussler: The Utility of Legal Frameworks for Regulating the Use of Drones Mr K Kurc: How military technology became a tool for justification for military interventions Mr P Schulte: What we do if we are never going to do this again: Western counterinsurgency choices after Iraq and Afghanistan Mr C Waddington: The moral questions of point and click killing 1215 - 1330 Lunch 1330 – 1500 Panel 2 The Psychological and Cognitive Implications of Precision-Strike Capabilities Ms M Cooper: The principle of proportionality in the law of armed conflict: Fuzzy logic – a methodology for information overload Dr A Banks and Dr M Dhami: Applying psychological models to military decision making Mr J Davis et al: Simulation of network enabled weapons and SPEAR strike capabilities Ms N Power et al: Call of duty (for psychological research): Modern warfare, the human operation and the intervened upon 1500 – 1530 Coffee 2
1530-1700 Panel 3 Precision Strikes, Protecting Civilians, and Counting the Cost Dr W Aslam and Mr C Gillespie: US drone strikes in Pakistan and political appropriation of casualties in threat construction Mr J Beswick and Ms E Minor: Casualty recording as an evaluative capability Prof G McNeal: The US practice of collateral damage estimation and mitigation Mr C Woods: Covert drone strikes and the fiction of zero civilian casualties 1700-1800 Reception and poster session 1800-2230 Dinner Day 2: 13 July 2012 Oak Suite 0830 – 0930 Keynote speaker Professor Jason Ralph - Preventive military action and the politics of US norm revisionism. 0930 - 1000 Coffee 1000 - 1130 Panel 4 The Legality of the Use of Drones in International Law Mr A Bodnar and Ms I Pacho: Potential application of the European Convention for Human Rights to the use of drones in conflict zones by armies of Council of Europe’s states Prof A Gillespie: How can we develop legal and autonomous unmanned aircraft? Mr W Henderson: Character, gravity and scale: When does intervention become the crime of aggression? Dr N Shah: Drone attacks in Pakistan: De-shaping International Intervention 1130 – 1200 Coffee 1200 – 1300 Roundtable: Social and Ethical Dimensions of New Technology Dr David Carey (University of Surrey) – Everyday applications and perspectives from nanotechnology Prof David Frohlich (University of Surrey) - Understanding the relationship between producing and using digital technology Prof Bryn James (Defence Science and Technical Laboratory) – The uses of technology in defence Dr Udesh Naidoo (Frimley Park Hospital) – Advances in technology and medical intervention 3
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