Sustaining the momentum: working to prevent and address enforced disappearances
Preventing persons from going missing, clarifying the fate and whereabouts of those who do and supporting their loved ones, including in their quest to know what happened and to seek justice for serio...
26 Aug 202117min
The future is now: artificial intelligence and anticipatory humanitarian action
As the world faces simultaneous disasters and burgeoning risks, humanitarian actors need to develop more efficient ways of delivering aid to vulnerable populations. One current trend involves the use ...
18 Aug 20218min
The value (and danger) of ‘shock’ in regulating new technology during armed conflict
The rules and standards of war are not self-correcting. Contradictions, gaps, and ambiguities often endure until an external pressure makes them salient. This is particularly true of the laws governin...
12 Aug 202111min
Drones and distrust in humanitarian aid
Drones are an increasingly common tool in humanitarian aid, but issues revolving around public perception and trust continue to slow their global rollout during disaster. Humanitarians can use new tec...
22 Jul 202112min
Online education: teaching IHL in the Gaza Strip during the COVID-19 pandemic
No country or sector has been spared the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Gaza Strip has certainly been no exception. In this post, Professor Moamin Aljaro, Professor of Law at the University...
15 Jul 20216min
Protective by design: safely delivering connectivity as aid
Over the past decade, there has been a large and growing demand for digital services – such as ‘connectivity as aid’. Such services can be of great help to people affected by conflict, including by he...
7 Jul 202113min
Digital safe havens: sheltering civilians from military cyber operations
In the spring of 2021, the ICRC and Geneva Academy jointly organized a student essay competition on the protection of civilians against the dangers posed by military cyber operations. Students from ne...
1 Jul 20216min
Future developments in military cyber operations and their impact on the risk of civilian harm
Over the past decade, several States have begun to develop military cyber elements capable of both defending their national interests, as well as projecting their national power, by capitalizing on a ...
22 Jun 202111min
