Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence to uncover patterns of violence

ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog · May 25, 2023 · 10m

This month saw the successful conclusion to a year-long collaboration between the ICRC and the Swiss Data Science Centre – a joint venture between Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology, EPFL[1] and ETHZ[2] – on a research project to track patterns of violence.[3] The collaboration produced an algorithm, developed to reclassify open-source data according to international legal norms and trained by machine learning, that will permit the ICRC to have deeper insights into patterns of violence by armed forces and armed groups. The project’s findings were launched during an event on…