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Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget & Acquisition

To successfully integrate AI into the IC, budget and acquisition processes must increase in speed, flexibility, and simplicity.

Early Edition: September 28, 2021

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System Rivalry: How Democracies Must Compete with Digital Authoritarians

On the need to rethink the artificial intelligence challenge as a system rivalry — between digital authoritarianism and democratic models of governance.

Early Edition: September 27, 2021

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A Bosnian Muslim signs a book in a makeshift memorial for Bosnian Muslim victims on November 22, 2017 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Photographs dangle on strings at the memorial.

The Relay Race of Defining Crimes Against Humanity – From the International Tribunals to the Draft Articles

At times the baton was dropped; at other times, drafters successfully overcame the hurdles in the process, as with the ICC Statute.
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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Sept. 19-24)

Counterterrorism • Attack on the U.S. Capitol • Social media platforms and technology • Draft treaty on crimes against humanity • International Criminal Court - Philippines…
Three people check Facebook over tea and food at a teashop in Yangon, Myanmar.

Q&A on Court Ordering Facebook to Disclose Content on Myanmar Genocide

Implications for future investigations and more...
Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, in the northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on September 22, 2021.

Iraqi Elections, Coming Again Soon, Still Don’t Deliver Democracy

Turnout may be dismal, as many Iraqis feel elections fail as a channel for their voices or an instrument for change.
Funeral workers carry a body bag containing the remains of Arvin Arbuis through a grave site. A procession of people follow.

ICC Investigation of Philippines President Duterte Sends Important Signals

It tells other governments that they may not obtain retroactive impunity for their crimes by withdrawing from the ICC treaty.

Early Edition: September 24, 2021

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Filipino protestors demonstrate outside the Chinese Embassy on July 12, 2019 in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. They carry signs reading, “Justice for Filipino Fishermen!” “Demiliterize West Philippine Sea” “Uphold Philippine Victory in the Arbitral Tribunal! China Out of the West Philippine Sea!” and more.

China, Climate Change, Credibility: Why It’s (Finally) Time for the US to Join the Law of the Sea Convention

The US absence at the table is more perplexing than ever, considering how these issues will define maritime governance in the 21st century.
Diane Foley, the mother of slain ISIS hostage James Foley, stands alongside the parents of slain ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller, Carl Mueller and Marsha Mueller, and family members of 2 other slain ISIS hostages, following the guilty pleas by Alexanda Kotey, a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell dubbed the "Beatles," to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages, including Mueller and Foley, outside the the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, September 2, 2021.

Impact-Based Jurisdiction and Crimes Against Humanity Statutes Are Needed for Effective Accountability

The answer is to fully enact international criminal law at the national level and to provide for its maximum reach.
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