This #IDDNPA, I join António Guterres in calling on global leaders to invest in peace by strengthening the systems and tools that prevent the proliferation and use of deadly weapons.   And I call on all of us to speak with one loud, clear and united voice: We need disarmament now

Delighted to share that my article “Race and International Organizations” with the brilliant Kseniya Oksamytna is out in International Studies Quarterly! In it, we develop the concept of racialized IOs, using a case study of the UN peacekeeping workforce. #race #IOs 🧵 below 👇 academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

Great opportunity for African actors to develop positions on autonomous weapons and to push for global regulation!

Fatima, 6, deeply misses her school and home in Khartoum, Sudan. She and her family have had to move twice to escape relentless violence. With her siblings, she attends a safe UNICEF-supported learning space. The children of Sudan need a ceasefire now

#NewArticle In this article I make a case for taking the problems of algorithmic bias more seriously when discussing the global governance of autonomous weapons systems. Technology is not neutral!! link.springer.com/article/10.105…

🆕Read “Imaginations of Autonomy: On Humans, AI-Based Weapons Systems and Responsibility Machine Speed” This blog written by Ishmael Bhila 🕊, @SwatiMMalik Adriano Nogueira Drumond Lopes, and Gabriel Udoh covers the recent #AWS conference in Paderborn. stopkillerrobots.medium.com/c42a34fc4771 1/2

.William Hartung TomDispatch: Developing weapons that take human beings out of the kill chain may not seem 'patriotic' to you but maybe the Fourth of July is as good a time as ever to talk about it. 🇺🇸 responsiblestatecraft.org/ai-weapons-sil…

NEW: Writing for the ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy blog, dr ingvild bode & Ishmael Bhila 🕊 unpack the problem of algorithmic bias in #AI-based decision support systems in the military domain blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy…

Excited to welcome fantastic colleagues to Queen's University Belfast 🎓 for a workshop on imaginaries of 'future war', thanks to The British Academy support. Ishmael Bhila 🕊 mark lacy Marijn Hoijtink Michael Mulvihill Aditi Gupta Scientists for Global Responsibility Dr. Lindsay Clark Ciaran Gillespie Vicky Karyoti + more

Racism, intolerance & discrimination tear at the fabric of our societies, which is a tragedy for everyone. But each of us can take action to #FightRacism. Here’s how: un.org/en/fight-racism

#NewPaper small state challenges and strategies in the diplomacy on autonomous weapons systems. With the majority of those who want regulation on autonomous weapons systems, their voices matter too! um.edu.mt/library/oar/ha…

New #blog by Ishmael Bhila 🕊 and Jennifer Menninger from WILPF Germany summarising the "Investigating the Kill Cloud" conference in Berlin, which brought together civil society academics and others to discuss AI and data-driven technologies in modern combat. 🔗medium.com/@stopkillerrob…

#New Publication: I am happy to announce the publication of this short piece on the “kill cloud”. It is a report of a conference held in Berlin that brings attention to pertinent themes, including postcolonial analysis of algorithmic warfare. doi.org/10.1057/s42984…

“We do not have a homeland other than Palestine…we are not looking for other homelands…there is no power on earth that can remove the Palestinian people from our ancestral land.”

Join us in Taipei 🇹🇼 for #RightsCon2025! 📺We’re hosting an online event on Digital Dehumanisation and Automated Decision making! 📆Wednesday, 26 February ⏰8:15PM Taipei | 12:15PM GMT | 7:15AM EST 🎟️Get your Community (online) ticket at: rightscon.org RightsCon 1/5

🎤Ishmael Bhila (Ishmael Bhila 🕊) is a Doctoral Researcher and Research Associate at Paderborn University in Germany studying Global South perspectives on algorithmic warfare. 4/5

Accountability and responsibility for the use and the impacts of #AutonomousWeapons lie with humans NOT machines. Meaningful human control is crucial. Ishmael Bhila 🕊 from Virtual Planet Africa takes the floor on behalf of #StopKillerRobots at this morning's #CCWUN session at United Nations Geneva.