| Summary: | Unmanned vehicles or drones (how they are cultured in general) have become a staple in the modern era conflicts seeing as how they offer mostly the same results as other vehicles with less drawbacks. The paper will focus on identifying current issues regarding unmanned vehicles used in conflicts, identify the international law documents that are applicable to said vehicles and focus on how states should reconsider a reform in how states handles future conflicts based on unmanned devices. Conflicts such as the Azerbaijani-Armenian war or the Ukrainian crisis have shown to revolve around the usage of drones as low threshold devices that bypass the rules regarding usage of force and could trigger dangerous responses from states. Furthermore, the analysis will also take into aspects on how international courts have been tackling modern conflicts and methods, while also delving in the aspects of human rights breaches. Identifying how the legal regimes applicable for unmanned vehicles and how future legal instruments can be developed and enforced will also be another focus of the paper, as such, conclusions will be based on how legal aspects will evolve and ensure a checks and balances approach in this field, seeing as how influential artificial intelligence will be in the unmanned segment.
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