Wim Zwijnenburg
Project Leader in Humanitarian Disarmament, PAX (Netherlands) (website)
twitter: @wammezz
email: zwijnenburg [at] paxforpeace [dot] nl
phone: 0031 (0)30 232 0592
Project Leader in Humanitarian Disarmament, PAX (Netherlands) (website)
twitter: @wammezz
email: zwijnenburg [at] paxforpeace [dot] nl
phone: 0031 (0)30 232 0592
Arms Trade Treaty | drones
Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organisation PAX. His work focuses on emerging military technologies and their impact on how wars are being fought and consequences for arms proliferation. He is the author of the reports Does Unmanned Make Unacceptable, Armed & Dangerous, Unmanned and Uncontrolled and Unmanned Ambitions.
Wim is coordinator of the European Forum on Armed Drones, a network of civil society organisations working to address concerns over use and proliferation of military drones. He also works on the impact of conflict on the environment and received the UNEP/OCHA Green Star Award in 2017 for his work on environmental preparedness in emergencies, and published various reports on the topic on Syria and Iraq. He is a frequent contributor to the open-source investigative journalism collective Bellingcat and has been involved in the Control Arms campaign on the Arms Trade Treaty. He holds a Masters in International Development Studies from the Radboud University Nijmegen and received a Philosophy scholarship from the Thomas More Foundation.
Recent Publications:
Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organisation PAX. His work focuses on emerging military technologies and their impact on how wars are being fought and consequences for arms proliferation. He is the author of the reports Does Unmanned Make Unacceptable, Armed & Dangerous, Unmanned and Uncontrolled and Unmanned Ambitions.
Wim is coordinator of the European Forum on Armed Drones, a network of civil society organisations working to address concerns over use and proliferation of military drones. He also works on the impact of conflict on the environment and received the UNEP/OCHA Green Star Award in 2017 for his work on environmental preparedness in emergencies, and published various reports on the topic on Syria and Iraq. He is a frequent contributor to the open-source investigative journalism collective Bellingcat and has been involved in the Control Arms campaign on the Arms Trade Treaty. He holds a Masters in International Development Studies from the Radboud University Nijmegen and received a Philosophy scholarship from the Thomas More Foundation.
Recent Publications:
- "How do the Climate Crisis and Conflicts Bind Humanitarians and Environmentalists?," Environmental Emergencies Centre, March 2020
- "Black Gold Burning: In Search Of South Sudan’s Oil Pollution," Bellingcat, January 23, 2020
- "Solving the jigsaw of conflict-related environmental damage: Utilizing open-source analysis to improve research into environmental health risks," Journal of Public Health, November 19, 2019.
- "The Environment Has Become a Hostage to Armed Conflict," New Security Beat, Wilson Center, November 7, 2019.
- "Time to Harden International Norms on Armed Drones," Defense One," September 21, 2019.
- "Armed Drones and Export Controls at UN," European Forum on Armed Drones, September 9, 2019.
- "Where Black Rivers Flow," Ecologist, August 28, 2019.
- "Iranian Oil Spills on Syria’s Shores: A Brief OSINT Overview of an Environmental Incident," Bellingcat, July 31, 2019.
- "Inclusive Protection of Civilians During Conflicts: Making a Case for the Environment," New Security Beat, Jun. 12, 2019.
- "Torching And Extortion: OSINT Analysis Of Burning Agriculture In Iraq," Bellingcat, Jun. 3, 2019.
- "Environmental Monitoring of Conflicts using Sentinel-2 data," Medium, Jan. 28, 2019.
- "New report: Drones are Booming Business in the Middle East," European Forum on Armed Drones, Jan 24, 2019.
- "Heavy Rains in Hasakah: An Open-Source Analysis of Catastrophic Damage," Bellingcat, Jan. 3, 2019.
- "Novel approaches to State responsibility for conflict pollution and environment damage," blog post, December 14, 2017.
- "Living under a black sky: Conflict pollution and environmental health concerns in Iraq," PAX, Dec 5, 2018.
- "Europe’s deadly silence on armed drones," VOXeurop, Sept 21, 2018.
- "Burning Borderlands: Open-Source Monitoring of Conflict-caused Wildfires in Iraq," Bellingcat, Sept 11, 2018.
- "Global Ambitions for Armed Drones," PAX Policy Paper, Sept 2017.
- "The Mosul Operation: An Interim Open-source Assessment of Conflict-related Environmental Damage", Bellingcat, February 21, 2017.