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ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy blog: What we don’t understand about digital risks in armed conflict and what to do about it

Joelle Rizk, Digital Risks Adviser, ICRC

Sean Cordey, Digital Risk Researcher, ICRC

The deployment and use of new digital technologies in modern conflicts – from information to cyber operations – creates new risks and enables actual risks of harm to civilians’ rights, lives, safety, dignity, and resilience. Understanding these risks is at the core of protection work in the digital age.

In this post, ICRC Digital Risk Adviser Joelle Rizk and Digital Risk Researcher Sean Cordey reflect on some key protection concerns in the digital age and lay out the way forward for protection actors to improve their preparedness to address these.

Read the full blog post here