Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan: Observations from a Combat Training Center

Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan: Observations from a Combat Training Center

Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan: Observations from a Combat Training Center The August 25, 2022 publication of the Department of Defense Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) generated debate about whether it is capable of being...
Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict

Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict

Unobserved Fires and the Law of Armed Conflict The United States and Australia have both embraced the concept of “multi-domain strike,” which the United States describes, in a veritable missile salvo of buzzwords, as the “capability to strike in depth with lethal and...
Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan

Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan On 23 November 2022, the district court of the Hague handed down its judgment in a case brought against the State of the Netherlands by relatives of persons killed during fighting in the Chora district,...
Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation

Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation

Responsible AI Symposium – Legal Implications of Bias Mitigation Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed at an expert workshop conducted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy focusing on Responsible AI. For a general introduction to this...
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are used in a...