Future of Non-lethal Weapons

<p>These essays explore the increase in interest in non-lethal weapons. Such devices have meant that many armed forces and law enforcement agencies are able to act against undesirables without being accused of acting in an inhumane way. <br><br>Topics for discussion in this volume include: an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons; emerging non-lethal technologies; military and police operational deployment of non-lethal weapons; a scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of non-lethal weapons; changes in international law needed to take into account non-lethal technologies; developments in genomics leading to new chemical incapacitants; implications for arms control and proliferation; the role of non-lethal weapons in human rights abuses; conceptual, theoretical and analytical perspectives on the nature of non-lethal weapons development.</p> Introduction, Nick Lewer; an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons, John Alexander; non-lethal weapons and international law - three perspectives on the future, David P. Fidler; the revolution in military affairs debate and non-lethal weapons, Gerrard Quille; towards an understanding of non-lethality, Brian Rappert; the role of sub-lethal weapons in human rights abuse, Steve Wright; future police operations and non-lethal weapons, Jorma Jussila; operationalizing non-lethality - a Northern Ireland perspective, Colin Burrows; non-lethal weapons technologies - the case for independent scientific analysis, Jurgen Altmann; perspectives and implications for the proliferation of non-lethal weapons in the context of contemporary conflict, security interests and arms control, Nick Lewer and Tobias Feakin; non-lethal weapons - R2IPE for arms control measures?, Victor Wallace; future incapacitating chemical agents - the impact of genomics, Malcolm Dando.