Topics for discussion in this volume include:

An overview of the future of non-lethal weapons;

Emerging non-lethal technologies;

Military and police operational deployment of non-lethal weapons;

A scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of non-lethal weapons;

Changes in international law needed to take into account non-lethal technologies;

Developments in genomics leading to new chemical incapacitants;

Implications for arms control and proliferation;

The role of non-lethal weapons in human rights abuses;

Conceptual, theoretical and analytical perspectives on the nature of non-lethal weapons development.