Elizabeth Minor

Elizabeth Minor is a researcher with Article 36, a UK-based NGO working to prevent the unintended, unnecessary or unacceptable harm caused by certain weapons.

How to defuse the devices of the nuclear-armed states

The five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without any agreed commitments, unbalanced as ever between the nuclear-armed states and the rest. Time to change the agenda.

By Elizabeth Minor

/ 30 May 2015

Prohibiting autonomous weapons systems

They have been dubbed ‘killer robots’. Concerted international action is needed to prevent the emergence of weapons which could operate without meaningful human control.

By Elizabeth Minor

/ 23 Apr 2015

Counting the cost of conflict

Casualty recording has redefined efforts to protect civilians in conflict, and provide aid and accountability to victims of violence. But with an absence of political will to respond to conflict, what good are the numbers?

By Elizabeth Minor and Serena Olgiati

/ 16 Apr 2014