Artificial intelligence (AI) is interacting in ever more complex ways with the sovereignty of states. On the one hand, AI technologies are beginning to underpin key sectors and services, including national security, the economy, healthcare. Consequently – and unsurprisingly – states are seeking to protect AI capabilities and the data infrastructure they rely on. The…

Armed conflicts are marred by misidentifications and miscalculations. Civilians carry the brunt of identification mistakes and faulty military equipment, often being harmed not intentionally, but due to the carelessness of parties to conflict. In the past months, reports of unintended engagements have been particularly frequent. On 5 May, it was announced that Russia has ‘accidentally bombed its…

This week, on August 30, the international community observed the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. Enforced disappearance places victims outside of the protection of the law in a state of complete vulnerability. It is a fundamental denial of human rights that directly victimises those disappeared, subjects their families to uncertainty…