The roles of civil society in the development of standards around new weapons and other technologies of warfare Brian Rappert, Richard Moyes, Anna Crowe, and Thomas Nash Brian Rappert is a Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. His latest book, How to Look Good in a War,* examines how secrecy and transparency, as well as knowledge and ignorance, mix and meld together in the practice of statecraft. Richard Moyes is Managing Partner of the UK non-governmental organization Article 36 and is an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter. Anna Crowe recently completed her Master of Laws at Harvard Law School. She previously worked as a New Zealand government lawyer and prior to that as a clerk to the Chief Justice of New Zealand. Thomas Nash is Director of the UK non-governmental organization Article 36. He coordinated the Cluster Munition Coalition, the international campaign that led to the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. * Brian Rappert, How to Look Good in a War. Justifying and Challenging State Violence, Pluto Press, London, 2012. Volume 94 Number 886 Summer 2012 doi:10.1017/S1816383112000744 765