This study collected in one place a comprehensive, multi-country and multidisciplinary summary of the evidence of harm that drones cause. It is focused less on policy recommendations per se, but is intended to ground any policy debate in a human-centered evidence base. The study includes a specific chapter on “Gendered Perspectives”. This chapter (pp127-140) shows how hegemonic violent masculinities are reinforced by the ethos of invulnerability associated with drones, by the misplaced scientism and accuracy narratives, by the sex-based targeting strategies, but are also undermined by the lack of a ‘warrior’ ethos.
2017