Space security governance: steps to limit the human costs of military operations in outer space

August 22, 2023 13 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Outer Space / Technology in Humanitarian Action / War, law, and outer space / Weapons Nivedita Raju

Civilians are heavily dependent on space systems for everyday life. Yet, those same space systems ...

Reducing the civilian cost of military counterspace operations

August 17, 2023 14 mins read Analysis / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Communications / IHL / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Outer Space / Technology in Humanitarian Action / War, law, and outer space Dr Stuart Eves, PhD, FRAS, FBIS & Gilles Doucet

Enabled by advanced technologies, the past few decades have seen a revolution in the utility ...

War, law and outer space: pathways to reduce the human cost of military space operations

August 15, 2023 16 mins read Analysis / Communications / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Outer Space / Technology in Humanitarian Action / War, law, and outer space / Weapons Wen Zhou

Despite the long-term desire of the international community to explore and use outer space for ...

What we don’t understand about digital risks in armed conflict and what to do about it

July 27, 2023 15 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Cyber / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Joelle Rizk & Sean Cordey

The deployment and use of new digital technologies in modern conflicts – from information to ...

Responsible data sharing between humanitarian organizations and donors: towards a common approach

June 22, 2023 7 mins read Access / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Vincent Cassard, Stuart Campo & Jonas Belina

Humanitarian organizations are facing increased incentives to collect and share disaggregated data about their operations. ...

Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare

January 20, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Weapons Klaudia Klonowska

Debates concerning the regulation of choices made by States in conducting hostilities are often limited ...

You can’t handle the truth: misinformation and humanitarian action

January 15, 2021 9 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Rachel Xu

Misinformation is on the rise, and the humanitarian sector has not escaped the consequences. The ...

Hacking humanitarians: moving towards a humanitarian cybersecurity strategy

January 16, 2020 10 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Massimo Marelli

As humanitarian organizations become more active in and reliant upon new technologies and the digital ...

Black magic, zombies and dragons: a tale of IHL in the 21st Century

September 3, 2019 14 mins read Armed Groups / Conduct of Hostilities / Counterterrorism / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Scope of application / Sexual Violence / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Terrorism and IHL / The most read blog posts in 2019 Helen Durham

As we marked the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions last month, I want to ...

Digital risks for populations in armed conflict: Five key gaps the humanitarian sector should address

June 12, 2019 8 mins read Cyber / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Technology in Humanitarian Action Delphine van Solinge

The Digital Revolution is affecting the lives of people around the world, from connected citizens ...

The price of virtual proximity: How humanitarian organizations’ digital trails can put people at risk

December 7, 2018 6 mins read Accountability / Humanitarian Action / Technology in Humanitarian Action Tina Bouffet & Massimo Marelli

Your text messages, phone calls, social media posts and cash transfers can say a lot ...

Protecting the digital beneficiary

June 12, 2018 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Gus Hosein

We are much more than our physical selves. We are also digital. Every moment we ...