Airwars
Airwars is a not-for-profit transparency watchdog which tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations.
The mission of Airwars is to reliably and independently document the human cost of war in order to promote a more peaceful world where human lives are acknowledged and taken into account by militaries, policy-makers and global citizens with dignity and empathy.
Example: precision weapons
“War often seems far away, but nearly all European countries have played a part in armed conflicts in one way or another during recent years”, explains executive director Emily Tripp in an interview.
“Governments claim they use ‘modern precision weapons on specific targets’. Our founder became obsessed by the gap between those claims and the harsh reality he witnessed as a war reporter. In government communications on the use of precision weapons, he never saw any mention of the large numbers of civilian casualties.”