From a legal perspective, the fact that cyber-related activities can escape regulatory control, accountability mechanisms, and move across borders is a serious concern. Not only is it rarely possible to attribute responsibility to a cyber attacker and their agent/client, but the potential for human rights violations is even greater.
Read More »Space and Health Series Event 1: Space, Remote Medicine and Health – 18:00 UK time (GMT+1), 18 May 2021
3 May 2021 Event One: Space, Remote Medicine and Health – 18:00 UK time (GMT+1), 18 May 2021 Tickets available here University College London and the Human Security Centre are teaming up to present an online events series focusing on ...
Read More »The Right to Self-determination following the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion
Whilst the decision in the Chagos advisory opinion creates no legally enforceable outcomes, its jurisprudence and its redefinition of the right to self-determination will be relevant to future ICJ decisions on self-determination.
Read More »(Emerging) disruptive technological applications – what’s in a name?
What exactly do ‘emerging’ and ‘disruptive’ mean to the user? Within what context are these technologies emergent or disruptive? Which aspects of those labels are being emphasised as most central to the analysis? In what ways do the subjects under analysis fit the definition used, and in what ways do they not?
Read More »Business Responsibility in Promoting Peace
The title of this article may, at first glance, seem ironic or unrealistic. Indeed, imagining links between business, human rights and peace may be inconceivable for the obvious reason that the protection of human dignity and the maintenance and preservation of peace are generally the responsibility of states. However, the debate on the need for corporate responsibility to incorporate respecting human rights is not new.
Read More »The potential of local peace agreements and why they matter
Local peace negotiations such as the ones between Fulani and Dogon can contribute to peace building plans as they often provide a comprehensive insight into the roots of the problems.
Read More »The New UK Defence Paper has mixed implications for the US
The post-Cold War 'investment holiday' in state-on-state warfare capabilities has left shortfalls on both sides of the Atlantic, and critical questions remain to be resolved about to what extent emerging technology and operations in the grey zone can genuinely take the place of traditional 'heavy metal' systems and conventional warfighting.
Read More »Vaccine politics in Eurasia
With over 190 countries signed up, the wait for COVAX vaccinations is likely to be long, and the scheme will only provide doses for up to a fifth of receiving countries’ populations. On the borders of Europe, this process has been fraught with geopolitics, centring in large part around the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine, as the complementary and opposing examples of Belarus and Ukraine demonstrate.
Read More »The New START treaty and the future of nuclear arms control
Amid a host of promises including a declaration to re-join the Paris Climate Agreement, the Biden administration announced in early January that it would seek an extension to the treaty, and on the 26th Biden and Putin agreed via a telephone conversation to a five-year extension.
Read More »PRESS RELEASE – The UK Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy
The Human Security Centre (HSC) welcomes the publication of the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR).
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