Denise Garcia

• Founding faculty of the NU Experiential Robotics Institute
• Vice-Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control
• Member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems member
• Northeastern University-wide Outstanding Teaching Award 2018-2019
• College of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2017)
• Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo (2017)
• Testimonies to the United Nations on the question of lethal autonomous weapons and their impact on peace and security
• Member of the Research Board of the Institute for Economics and Peace
• Summer Course at the United Nations in Geneva, since 2007
• Global Resilience Institute Faculty at Northeastern University.
• Member of the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo)
• Member of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney)

BOOKS:

Forthcoming: Common Good Governance in the Age of Military Artificial Intelligence. Oxford University Press. 2023.

Small Arms and Security – New Emerging International Norms.

Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security – Norms, Regimes, and Moral Progress in International Relations.

ARTICLES:

• “Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage”. International Relations. 2021; 35(3): 422-445.
• Warming to a New Definition and Call for Global Action: Humanity’s Security, Toda Peace Institute, No.117 (2021).
• Stop the emerging AI cold war, Nature 593, 169 (2021).
• Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics” Nature 584, 521-523 (2020).
• “The AI Arms Race: Trends and World Leaders in Autonomous Weapons Development“, co-authored with Justin Haner.
• “Disarmament in International Law.” In Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Ed. Tony Carty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• “Lethal Artificial Intelligence and Change: The Future of International Peace and Security”, International Studies Review (2018) 20, 334–341. Oxford University Press
• “Future Arms, Technologies, and International Law: Preventive Security Governance“, European Journal of International Security, Vol. 1 (1) 2016.
• Foreign Affairs: “Battle Bots: How the World Should Prepare Itself for Robotic Warfare”: May 2015.
• Carnegie Council Journal Ethics and International Affairs: Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity.
• Foreign Affairs: Disarming the Lords of War, A New International Treaty to Regulate the Arms Trade
• Foreign Affairs: The Case Against Killer Robots: Why the United States Should Ban Them
• International Affairs, “Humanitarian Security Regimes”, Jan. 2015, Vol. 91 (1).

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Denise Garcia is the vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations and the Global South Unit for Mediation in Rio de Janeiro. She is the recipient of the Northeastern University Outstanding Teaching Award (2019) and the College of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2017).