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Future of Non-lethal Weapons
Technologies, Operations, Ethics and Law
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.