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:
- "Axed and Burned: How Conflict-caused Deforestation Impacts Environmental, Socio-economic and Climate Resilience in Syria," PAX, March 2023.
- “Risks and impacts from attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine,” Pax, December 21, 2022.*
- "A Laboratory of Drone Warfare: The role and relevance of uncrewed aerial systems in the war in Syria," PAX, November 22, 2022.
- "First Committee briefing book 2022" Reaching Critical Will, September 16, 2022.*
- "Environment and Conflict Alert Ukraine: A first glimpse of the toxic toll or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine," PAX, March 9, 2022.*
- "We fear more war, we fear more drought," PAX, February 16, 2022.*
- "International Action to Protect People, Planet, and Peace: Building a UN system-wide environment, peace and security agenda," Ecosystem for Peace - Medium, January 21, 2022.
- "Turkish Drones Join Ethiopia’s war, Satellite Imagery Confirms," PAX, January 11, 2022.
- "Ethiopia now confirmed to fly Chinese armed drones," PAX, November 18, 2021.
- "Increasing Situational Awareness of Conflict Linked Oil Pollution with VHR Satellite Imagery," European Space Imaging, November 11, 2021.*
- "War, waste and polluted pastures," PAX, July 19, 2021.*
- "Data-driven environmental decision-making and action in armed conflict," Humanitarian Law and Policy, June 1, 2021.
- "Explosive weapons and civilian harm in the Gaza conflict," PAX, May 17, 2021.*
- "Remote Horizons: Expanding use and proliferation of military drones in Africa," PAX, May 7, 2021.
- "Nature-based Solutions Vital to Mitigating Conflict-linked Environmental Damage," NewSecurityBeat, February 18, 2021.
- "Battlefields in 2020 Were Testing Grounds for New Drone Warfare," Vice, December 23, 2020.
- "Are Emirati Armed Drones Supporting Ethiopia from an Eritrean Air Base?" Bellingcat, November 19, 2020.
- "Violence and wildfires driving people from their lands in Iraqi Kurdistan," PAX, November 13, 2020.*
- "Troubled Waters: Documenting Pollution of Iraq’s Shatt Al-Arab River," Bellingcat, November 10, 2020.
- "Violent Skies: How lethal drone technology is shaping contemporary warfare," PAX, September 23, 2020.*
- "Yemen Environmental Bulletin: The Decline of Tihama Date Production and Yemen’s Agricultural Collapse," Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, August 14, 2020.
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