Talk and discussion with Chris Hables Gray, University of California Santa Cruz, author of AI, Sacred Violence and War: The Case of Gaza

This paper explores how the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into military decision-making poses new challenges to human rights focused open-source investigation (OSI). It identifies three ...

[Patrick Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford, where his research critically examines how evidence is mediated with a particular focus on open-so…

As Israel expands its violent campaigns and illegal annexation in Palestine and Lebanon, the UK government has quietly closed the International Humanitarian

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Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud talk and discussion on his new book The World According to Military Targeting

Big tech, inteligencia artificial y ecología política de militarización digital | En Profundidad | 70 Militarización | Ecología Política

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Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

Matthew Ford on his new book War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips + respondent Miglė Bareikytė

Nadia El-Shaarawi on her recent book Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War

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Byron Tau on his recent book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government is Creating a New American Surveillance State

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...

Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

This article critically engages with the emerging “media forensic” turn at the intersection of visual culture, new media practice, and humanitarian and political activism. This field purports to subve...

Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

Mark Griffiths + Kali Rubaii on their article Late modern war and the geos: The ecological ‘beforemaths’ of advanced military technologies

Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

On black memory as counterforensics.

Brett Story on the demand for catharsis in our courts and on our screens.

In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from...

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Under occupation and surveillance, Al-Haq continues its forensic investigations into Israel's human rights violations.

What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic.   From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...