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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Engaging with the industry: integrating IHL into new technologies in urban warfare
Description: Alongside the urbanization of armed conflict lies a second trend: the increase in the use of technology to augment methods of warfare. Although some may claim that the integration of technological solutions – such as increasing the precision of munitions or reliance upon enhanced data and surveillance collection and analysis tools – can reduce civilian harm, contemporary urban conflict demonstrates that more should be done to ensure that new weapons technologies incorporate additional measures to minimize civilian harm when deployed in urban environments.
In this post, part of a special series on urban warfare, Damian Copeland and Lauren Sanders, both senior research fell...