Trying to square the circle: the ICRC AI Policy

November 28, 2024 16 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Pierrick Devidal

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings significant opportunities, and risks, for principled humanitarian ...

Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them

August 29, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Wen Zhou & Anna Rosalie Greipl

The desire to develop technological solutions to help militaries in their decision-making processes is not ...

Algorithms of war: The use of artificial intelligence in decision making in armed conflict

October 24, 2023 14 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Ruben Stewart & Georgia Hinds

In less than a year, Chat-GPT has become a household name, reflecting astonishing advances in ...

A New Year’s resolution: bringing IHL home

January 21, 2020 8 mins read Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Eva Svoboda

As the old year bids farewell and the new year takes shape, we tend to ...

Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy

October 18, 2019 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / New Technologies Ben Hayes & Massimo Marelli

The use of biometric identification systems by humanitarian organisations has been the subject of intense ...

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 digital transformation of the humanitarian sector

December 5, 2016 11 mins read Analysis / Counterterrorism / Humanitarian Action Anja Kaspersen & Charlotte Lindsey-Curtet

When you’re pulling people from rubble after missile strikes, or tending to injuries in a tent, or worrying about getting the next truck ...

Legal review of new weapons: Scope of the obligation and best practices

October 6, 2016 8 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict / Weapons The editors

Article 36 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions (AP I) states that each State Party is required to determine whether ...

Enabling local communities through Digital Response Networks

May 19, 2016 8 mins read World Humanitarian Summit Jennie Phillips

If the international community clearly sees the importance of “Putting people at the centre”, it seems less ready to do so. Here’s a ...

Introducing Humanitarian Law & Policy

May 19, 2016 3 mins read Sexual Violence / World Humanitarian Summit Raphaël Dallaire Ferland & Vincent Bernard

Today marks the launch of Humanitarian Law & Policy, a digital forum for those concerned with how to better protect and assist people affected by conflict and violence. ...

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