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[New publication] Ecocide: the environment as victim at the International Criminal Court
21 March 2023The existing legal framework of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) allows for the recognition of nonhumans as victims of ecocide, argues Giovanna Frisso (University of Lincoln) in the new ICD Brief ‘Ecocide: the environment as victim at...
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[New blog] Three lessons on the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to ensure accountability for violations of IHL
2 March 2023In a new blog post for ICRC, researchers Marta Bo (Asser Institute, SIPRI) and Vincent Boulanin (SIPRI) offer three lessons on the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to ensure accountability for violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). Ahead ...
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[Law clinic] Access to justice for gun violence
27 February 2023Last week, the international law clinic project on ‘Access to Justice for Gun Violence’ was launched by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic of the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with the Asser Institute and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. T...
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[New publication] The road to justice: Lessons for Ukraine from the USSR invasion of Afghanistan
22 February 2023The USSR invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s and the process towards justice and peace which followed the withdrawal of Soviet troops could provide important lessons for the implementation of transitional justice and respect for the international rule of...
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[Public panel] How to design and regulate for effective human-machine interaction in military AI?
14 February 2023How to design and regulate for effective human-machine interaction in the context of military decision-support systems? That is the topic of a public panel, organised by the Asser Institute’s trailblazing DILEMA research project on responsible military AI, dur...