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Federica D’Alessandra Speaks on Open Source Information and Accountability

Dec 14, 2022

On 14 December, ELAC Deputy Director and IPS Executive Director Federica D’Alessandra participated to a panel discussion titled ‘Open Source Information: Strengthening Accountability at the Intersection of Law, Technology and the Humanitarian Space’, organised by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The panel considered the comparative advantages and disadvantages of open source information vis-à-vis other types of evidence, and the consequences of its use on the ownership of the accountability process. Federica presented insight from the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security’s report on the implications, particularly with respect to OSINT, of the ‘accountability turn’ in Geneva, or a trend since 2011 to include international justice requirements in the mandates of UN investigations.

Speakers included Keith Hiatt, IIIM Syria; Ardi Imseis, Queen’s University, Canada, formerly Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen; Alexa Koenig, Human Rights Centre, Berkeley; and Ugo Cedrangolo, UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (moderator).

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