Outsourcing humanity? International law, humane treatment, and artificial intelligence in detention operations

November 13, 2025 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Detention / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Terry Hackett & Alexis Comninos

As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to shape decisions about who is detained in armed conflict ...

Peace can start in a prison cell: how IHL and humane detention can build pathways to peace

November 6, 2025 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Detention / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Special Themes / Torture / Upholding humanity in war: the Global IHL Initiative Terry Hackett & Audrey Purcell-O’Dwyer

When wars end, peace rarely begins overnight. It’s built, slowly and painstakingly, through acts that ...

Separated: The humanitarian consequences of solitary confinement in detention

July 15, 2016 7 mins read Events and highlights The editors

Penitentiary authorities around the world have increasingly turned to restrictive detention regimes such as solitary confinement to manage high risk detainees. What are ...

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Outsourcing humanity? International law, humane treatment, and artificial intelligence in detention operations

Peace can start in a prison cell: how IHL and humane detention can build pathways to peace

Separated: The humanitarian consequences of solitary confinement in detention

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