CWS Annual Conference 2020: What is a battlefield, who is a fighter?
This conference considers contemporary challenges in the changing face of war centered around two themes: what is a battlefield, and who is a fighter. In both fields, recent experience shows that traditional baselines have been shifted importantly; are our policies, definitions, and institutions keeping up? Where, and at whom and at what, should we be looking to understand today’s wars, and tomorrow’s? To consider these questions animatedly, we are engaging the interdisciplinary expertise of SDU’s Center for War Studies and its friends to discuss, over 1.5 days, how war is altering our understanding of what battlefields and fighters consist of, and what this means for the tools we currently apply.