📚 Syllabus & Course Curriculum
Data Science & Analytics
Module-by-module breakdown of AI in Warfare & International Humanitarian Law, from foundations to a certified capstone project.
Legal Framework
• Distinction, proportionality and precaution as binding legal rules
• Sources of IHL: Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols and customary law
• The Martens Clause and its invocation in emerging-technology debate
Weapons Review
• Article 36 weapons review obligations and how states implement them
• Reviewing systems whose behaviour is learned rather than specified
• Testing, predictability and reliability as legal, not merely technical, questions
Human Control
• Meaningful human control: competing definitions and state positions
• Command responsibility and the accountability gap argument
• Automation bias in targeting decision support and its legal significance
Governance
• The CCW Group of Governmental Experts and the state of negotiations
• Positions of major state blocs and civil society campaigns
• Export controls, dual-use regulation and industry self-governance
Analysis
• Structured legal analysis of documented incidents in the public record
• Evidence, investigation and attribution challenges after the fact
• Drafting a reasoned legal opinion on a contested system
Earn government-registered certification in AI in Warfare & International Humanitarian Law
e-Certificate and e-Marksheet issued on successful completion.
