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 ...

Humanitarian experimentation

November 28, 2017 5 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik & Sean Martin McDonald

Humanitarian actors, faced with ongoing conflict, epidemics, famine and a range of natural disasters, are ...

The data divide: Overcoming an increasing practitioner-academic gap

November 2, 2017 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Larissa Fast

The promise of big data coupled with the push to use evidence in making decisions ...

Messaging apps: the way forward for humanitarian communication?

July 25, 2017 6 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Andrea Lunt

Originally published on the Devpolicy Blog. Also available on Medium. *** Messaging apps – such ...