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type: claim
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domain: grand-strategy
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description: Campaign to Stop Killer Robots mirrors ICBL's pre-Ottawa Treaty structure but lacks the civilian casualty event and middle-power champion moment that would activate the treaty pathway
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confidence: experimental
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source: CS-KR public record, CCW GGE deliberations 2014-2025
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created: 2026-03-31
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- handle: "leo"
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- handle: "leo"
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context: "CS-KR public record, CCW GGE deliberations 2014-2025"
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# AI weapons stigmatization campaign has normative infrastructure without triggering event creating ICBL-phase-equivalent waiting for activation
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The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (CS-KR) was founded in April 2013 with ~270 member organizations across 70+ countries, comparable to ICBL's geographic reach. The CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS has met annually since 2016, producing 11 Guiding Principles (2019) and formal Recommendations (2023), but zero binding commitments after 11 years. This mirrors the ICBL's 1992-1997 trajectory structurally: normative infrastructure is present (Component 1), but the triggering event (Component 2) and middle-power champion moment (Component 3) are absent. The ICBL needed all three components sequentially: infrastructure enabled response when landmine casualties became visible, which enabled Axworthy's Ottawa process bypass of the Conference on Disarmament. CS-KR has Component 1 but not 2 or 3. Russia's Shahed drone strikes (2022-2024) are the nearest candidate event but failed to trigger because: (a) semi-autonomous pre-programmed targeting lacks clear AI decision-attribution, (b) mutual deployment by both sides prevents clear aggressor identification, (c) Ukraine conflict normalized rather than stigmatized drone warfare. The triggering event requires: clear AI decision-attribution + civilian mass casualties + non-mutual deployment + Western media visibility + emotional anchor figure. Austria has been most active diplomatically but has not attempted the Axworthy procedural break (convening willing states outside CCW machinery). The 13-year trajectory is not evidence of permanent impossibility but evidence of the 'infrastructure present, activation absent' phase.
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Relevant Notes:
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- [[the-legislative-ceiling-on-military-ai-governance-is-conditional-not-absolute-cwc-proves-binding-governance-without-carveouts-is-achievable-but-requires-three-currently-absent-conditions]]
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- [[_map]]
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