Law and Ethics of the Development and Use of Autonomous Weapons from the Perspective of Selected International Organizations

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the approach of several selected international organisations of different types and nature, namely the United Nations (UN), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Red Cross (IRC), to the aspects of existence and the necessity of regulation or an outright ban of such weapons. The thesis aims to compare the approaches of these aforementioned organisations, point out potential noticeable diffreences in these approaches, and to map out possible legal solutions to the problem of the development and use of autonomous weapons that these organizations propose, should they do so. Finally, the thesis also seeks to address the ethical aspect of the whole issue by mapping possible ethical approaches to the problem of developing potentially lethal weapons and weapon systems that do not require and, by their very nature, directly deny human control.