Event: Harnessing the potential of AI to uncover patterns of violence

Gilles Carbonnier

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Gilles Carbonnier

Vice President, ICRC

Balthasar Staehelin

MODERATOR

Balthasar Staehelin

Special Envoy, Foresight and Techplomacy, ICRC

Roberto Castello

PANELLIST

Roberto Castello

Principal Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)

Fabien Dany

PANELLIST

Fabien Dany

Results-Based Management Adviser, ICRC

Chiara Debenedetti

PANELLIST

Chiara Debenedetti

Protection Data Analysis Coordinator, ICRC

Aminata Gueye

PANELLIST

Aminata Gueye

Operations Adviser Global Affairs, ICRC

Clément Lefebvre

PANELLIST

Clément Lefebvre

Data Scientist, SDSC

Silvia Quarteroni

PANELLIST

Silvia Quarteroni

Chief Transformation Officer, SDSC

Fiona Terry

PANELLIST

Fiona Terry

Head of the Centre for Operational Research & Experience (CORE), ICRC

David Wanstall

PANELLIST

David Wanstall

Deputy Head of the Unit for the Protection of Civilians, ICRC

About the event

‘Monitoring Patterns of Violence’ is one of a series of twelve projects of the Engineering Humanitarian Action (EHA) initiative launched jointly by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The objective of this initiative is to make knowledge and technologies from both universities available where they are critically needed: in humanitarian crises.

The project unites experts from theory and application, political and computer science under one common goal: the development of an event coding schema and an event coding software to quantify patterns of violence in accordance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Uncovering patterns of violence will permit the ICRC to observe peaks of violence and of restraint, and interrogate the potential contributions the ICRC might have made to positive changes in behaviour through its dialogue on IHL compliance.

Join us for this hybrid event where Professor Gilles Carbonnier, Vice President of the ICRC, will introduce this research project that aims to expand the ICRC’s understanding of patterns of violence. His introductory remarks will be followed by presentations by the experts involved in the research and a discussion with the audience, chaired by Balthasar Staehelin, Special Envoy, Foresight and Techplomacy at the ICRC.

International sign language interpretation and closed captions will be provided at this event

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