(AGENPARL) – STANFORD (CA) gio 22 giugno 2023

The Stanford Humanitarian Program at Stanford Law school launched in late 2022, with a mission to draw on interdisciplinary research rooted in law, political science, and technology policy to develop concrete recommendations for practicable policy solutions to problems faced by practitioners working on humanitarian crises. The program’s genesis was a project that the two co-founders, Senior Lecturer Allen Weiner, JD ’89, and Bailey Ulbricht, JD ’22, now the executive director, began two years ago working with a team of SLS students to support the development of a new approach to Humanitarian Notification Systems (HNS). HNS allows humanitarian workers in war zones to transmit their location to alert warring parties of their presence. This year, Weiner, Ulbricht, and a small team of SLS students are developing legal and policy guidance to support humanitarian organizations that might adopt the new HNS, looking at tough questions such as who should be allowed to use the system and what the available responses are under international law when a humanitarian team that has sent a notification is nevertheless attacked.

Weiner and Ulbricht are also looking ahead as they ramp up the second of the program’s two technology-focused, inaugural projects: an ambitious study of how to combat the harmful effects of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech on civilians in armed conflicts around the world. SL

Fonte/Source: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/new-sls-humanitarian-program/