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Non-lethal weapons have a design intent to provide an effect to reliably elicit a degree of incapacitation but without the typically lethal or permanent lasting effects of conventional weapons.
Key words: non-lethal weapons, distinction, proportionality, precaution. The promise of modern international humanitarian law is that those who are hors de combat will be protected, respected, and cared for in times of armed conflict.
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) can be used to influence individuals’ behavior and/or to suppress, degrade, or impair the performance of personnel and materiel. Examples of NLWs include acoustic hailers that warn, laser dazzlers that create eye-safe glare, and electronic sys - tems that remotely shut down vehicles or vessels.
Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) are defined as “Weapons, devices and munitions that are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate targeted personnel or materiel immediately, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property in the targeted area or environment.
31 Ιουλ 2024 · This report describes how non-lethal weapons can be used in diverse strategic and operational contexts by drawing on insights from psychology and group dynamics and providing vignettes of gray-zone situations, civilian encounters, and combat.
The analysis of these three fundamen-tal documents clearly demonstrates that minimizing collateral damage and non-combatant fatalities is a military capability required by the reality of present and future conflicts, and NLW can be a practi-cal tool in achieving this capability.
29 Ιουλ 2009 · This book examines that dilemma in the context of the imminent development of a novel toolkit of so-called non-lethal weapons (NLWs), which promise radically to alter the existing Hobson's choice.
