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Voted for the 🇺🇸 general/presidential election via e-mail. I am grateful that it is possible to do so from abroad, and think it's important to reflect on the reality that this election has so many implications for the entire world. Hope we can turn the page. #GoVote #USElection

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The brilliant Neil Renic at the Contestations Symposium on AI, Warfare and Human Rights here in Helsinki

Compelling read on the urgent need for states to respect and to ensure respect for IHL in all conflicts ⬇️ wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/_/hu…

“The Israeli military is striking hospitals, and staff and patients have been killed and injured or forced to evacuate simultaneously. Shelters, once schools, are struck daily. Communication with the outside world remains extremely limited. Journalists continue to be killed.”

“To all the world’s leaders, I remind you of your responsibility to ensure respect for international humanitarian law as set out in the Geneva Conventions. […] I implore you to put the protection of civilians and human rights first, and not to abandon that minimum of humanity.”

Fixed it for you, The New York Times nytimes.com/live/2024/10/2…

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I took another look at this manual & not only are there no women IHL “experts” but all 12 men who produced this are from Western States. Conclusion: neither women nor anyone outside of the West knows anything worth knowing on the use of force. lieber.westpoint.edu/virginia-georg…

Moving on...

The stage is set for our panel on ‘Governance of AI applications in the military’ with Yoshua Bengio Elina Noor Jessica Dorsey (@jessicadorsey.bsky.social) @_wandamunoz and Lode Dewaegheneire! And moderated by Branka Marijan.

We are almost there! I'm excited to welcome the one and only Jessica Dorsey (@jessicadorsey.bsky.social) to the Supreme Joint War College and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Never thought I’d hear someone refer to the latest report by Airwars in the US congress and call for a cessation of US weapons to Isr@el

Airwars research cited in groundbreaking new investigation by The New York Times: “Israel loosened its rules to bomb Hamas fighters, killing many more civilians” nytimes.com/2024/12/26/wor…

Burgers en NGO's kunnen vanaf vandaag terecht bij een speciaal meldpunt voor vermoedens van burgerslachtoffers door Nederlandse militaire inzet. Ook gevallen uit het verleden kunnen met terugwerkende kracht worden gemeld en geregistreerd: defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws…

.Lena Trabucco, Neil Renic, and I are hosting a one-day conference Center for Militære Studier, "Military AI and the Resort to Force." It will be the rare AI conference focusing on the jus ad bellum instead of the jus in bello. Feb. 27 from 9:00-17:00. Register here: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/confere….

Just spoke to my dear Ukrainian friend and colleague Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦. I reiterated my full support for #Ukraine: whatever it takes, for as long as it takes. 🇳🇱🇺🇦

“A chorus of international lawyers and foreign policy experts labelled the US attacks unlawful under the UN charter. Ben Saul argued the US strikes amounted to an “international crime of aggression”, which marked a “new low” in eroding international law.” theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

THREAD: Over 450 Palestinians have been killed and more than 3500 injured while trying to access food at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) since May 27, when it began operating in Gaza. Survivors describe being shelled, sniped, robbed, and crushed.