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[Inter-university programme] Kicking off the tenth season of the Lebanon Lecture Series
2 February 2022The 10th season of the Inter-University Programme (IUP) in Lebanon, also called the Lebanon Lecture Series, begins today. The programme offers Lebanese students the opportunity to learn about international criminal law and procedure. About the Lebanon Lecture...
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Research funding for ELSA Lab Defence project on military artificial intelligence
1 February 2022The Dutch Research Strategy (NWA) has awarded funding to the ELSA Lab Defence project, in which a coalition of Dutch research organisations and the Asser Institute will develop a future-proof, independent and consultative ecosystem for responsible use of AI in...
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Janne Nijman new chair supervisory board of the World Press Photo Foundation
31 January 2022Today, the Asser Institute’s chairperson of the executive board and academic director Janne E. Nijman has been appointed as the new chair of the supervisory board of the World Press Photo Foundation. In a press release, executive director of World Press Phot...
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[Online symposium] Decolonisation and human rights - the Dutch case
25 January 2022This week, constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog is hosting an online symposium on ‘Decolonisation and human rights in the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ edited by Asser researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz together with PhD researcher Wiebe Hommes (Universit...
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[New blog post] ‘Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare’
21 January 2022New technologies – especially those with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, even if non-weaponised – are significantly transforming contemporary warfare. In a post for ICRC’s Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Asser researcher Klaudia Klonowska...