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Anne-Charlotte Merrell Wetterwik
Wim Zwijnenburg
Project Leader in Humanitarian Disarmament, PAX (Netherlands) (website)
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email: zwijnenburg [at] paxforpeace [dot] nl 
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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:
  • "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.
  • "Yemen’s Disappearing Date Palms: Applied Environmental OSINT," Bellingcat, July 24, 2020.
  • "A River of Death: How oil pollution is impacting health and livelihoods in conflict-affected north east Syria," PAX, June 30, 2020.*
  • "Exploring environmental harm from explosive weapons in populated areas," PAX, May 28, 2020.*
  • "Dying To Keep Warm: Oil Trade And Makeshift Refining In North-West Syria," Bellingcat, April 24, 2020.
  • "Signs of Progress: Environment and Conflict in the UN Security Council," Planetary Security Initiative/PAX briefing note, March 2020.
  • "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.
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