Features: Blog - The need for a more focused AWS targeting discussion, Conference - Reducing suffering in armed conflict: Buddhism and IHL
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Blog Series: Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict

What are some of the key issues and concerns that need greater attention when it comes to the future of AI in the modern war zone and beyond? Continuing this blog series, Dustin A. Lewis looks at legal reviews of means and methods of warfare involving AI, Ashley Deeks considers implications of AI use to support operational detention decision-making, and Lorna McGregor discusses governance frameworks on predictive algorithms in military settings.

RESEARCH LAUNCH – IHL AND DISPLACEMENT IN ARMED CONFLICT

Join the ICRC in Geneva on 6 May for the launch of Displacement in times of armed conflict: How international humanitarian law protects in war, and why it matters. This new study provides insights for determining whether violations of, or respect for, IHL have a fostering or mitigating impact on displacement.

Blog: Enhanced distinction - The need for a more focused autonomous weapons targeting discussion

Is there validity to the concern some have that autonomous systems could operate independent of a commander and—by extension—independent of associated criminal or administrative accountability mechanisms? In this blog post, John Cherry and Christopher Korpela suggest a more focused debate, building on interaction between human command and machine systems currently in use.

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS IN IMPLEMENTING IHL

The University of Geneva is now inviting papers focusing on ways in which human rights mechanisms could increase respect for IHL. Open to graduate and postgraduate researchers, successful submissions will be presented during a conference in Geneva in November 2019. Proposals are open until 15 May.

CONFERENCE: REDUCING SUFFERING DURING ARMED CONFLICT – THE INTERFACE BETWEEN BUDDHISM AND IHL

This conference, to be held in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, 4-6 September, will explore correspondences between Buddhism and IHL, and encourage a constructive dialogue between the two domains to understand how Buddhism can contribute to regulating armed conflict.

Podcast: The Right Choice - Virtual Reality Puts War at the Front Door

How are the realities of conflict better communicated? The latest episode of Intercross the Podcast, speaks to Christopher Nicholas, the ICRC's Audiovisual Producer and project manager of The Right Choice, about how virtual reality is helping people understand urban warfare and its impact on real lives.

Watch Again: Dignity in Displacement - From Rhetoric to Reality

On 27 March the Humanitarian Policy Group launched its new research, Dignity and humanitarian action in displacement at the ICRC Humanitarium, with a panel discussion on the ways that humanitarian actors can better support affected populations’ expectations of responses. Watch the recorded event once more.

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