Internal displacement: Some reflections on cracking the urban challenge September 23, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Protracted Conflict Catherine-Lune Grayson The world is rapidly urbanizing and so is internal displacement. Yet we—humanitarians—often fail to properly understand how displaced people cope in such settings ...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons one year on: Reflections from Hiroshima September 20, 2018 6 mins read Law and Conflict / Stories / Weapons Helen Durham Today marks one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was declared open for signature. Its adoption confirmed that a ...
Speaking law to business: 10-year anniversary of the Montreux Document on PMSCs September 17, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Jonathan Cuénoud & Tilman Rodenhäuser For centuries, private contractors have been used in warfare. Their involvement in armed conflicts rose substantially in the early 2000s, triggering important legal ...
Bombs & blast waves: Why children in conflict need special care September 13, 2018 9 mins read Analysis / Children in conflict / Humanitarian Action / Stories Paul Reavley I’ve deployed numerous times during my career in the military, and on every deployment, I ...
The (im)possibility of meaningful human control for lethal autonomous weapon systems August 29, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons Elke Schwarz This week, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) is holding their third meeting at the UN Certain ...
The impact of gender and race bias in AI August 28, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Gender / Gender and conflict / Law and Conflict / Weapons Noel Sharkey Automated decision algorithms are currently propagating gender and race discrimination throughout our global community. The ...
The human nature of international humanitarian law August 23, 2018 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict Eric Talbot Jensen International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates the use of force in armed conflict. It inherently provides ...
Autonomous weapons and human control July 18, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / Weapons Tim McFarland Concerns about ensuring sufficient human control over autonomous weapon systems (AWS) have been prominent since ...
A humanitarian-development nexus that works June 21, 2018 11 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Protracted Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018 Filipa Schmitz Guinote The decades-old discussion on the ‘humanitarian-development nexus’ is again in full swing. At the beginning, ...
IHL & the protection of migrants caught in armed conflict June 4, 2018 11 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Migration Helen Obregón Gieseken & Éloïse Ouellet-Décoste In the wake of the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, this year marks the final phase of the process leading ...
War on your doorstep: A visual journey through the everyday realities of urban warfare May 31, 2018 5 mins read Humanitarian Action / Stories Vincent Bernard In 2017 the ICRC unveiled ‘War in Cities / Villes en Guerre’—an exhibition on the catastrophic impact that urban warfare has on the ...
The world needs robust peacekeeping not aggressive peacekeeping May 15, 2018 10 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Counterterrorism / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018 Mona Ali Khalil Since 1999, and in response to the tragic failures to protect civilians in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the ...
