Speaker: Lily Hamourtziadou, Birmingham City University

Host: Prof. Deming Duan, Peking University

Time: 19:00 pm, Februray 23, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 999 0414 1467  Password: 365781

Abstract:

With the progress of science and technology, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) combat and other long-range combat methods are becoming more and more common in contemporary wars. This technology has been used in many wars in Europe and the United States. Compared with traditional war, long-distance war blurs the boundaries between war and peace, military and civilian, state and non-state, and legitimate and illegitimate. The traditional ethics of war can no longer be fully applicable here. It needs to develop new theories to think about it. This lecture mainly discusses the ethical issues in the long-distance war of contemporary European and American countries.

Biography:

Lily Hamourtziadou, a senior lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK, and an expert in international politics, conflict and war ethics, has long specialized in the ethical issues in the contemporary European and American anti-terrorism war, especially the impact of the anti-terrorism war on civilians, and the relationship between the contemporary European and American war and neo-liberalism. He is the author of 《Body Count: the war on terror and civilian deaths in Iraq》 and 《Neoliberalism and the killing for profit in Iraq》.

Source: Center for European Studies at Peking University