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Urgent considerations about artificial intelligence and education

by Mauro Jarquín Ramírez,* Mexico

(8 August 2023) (Edit.) The digital form of the media has permanently changed the way people live together. The use of computers and the Internet has become an integral part of our everyday life. Computer science has developed the ability not only to absorb and process information, but also to recognise patterns, analyze them and make predictions. People have been talking about “artificial intelligence” or AI for short since the 1960s.

Why peace is possible at any time

Building on the European peace traditions

by Robert Seidel

(8 August 2023) Today, it can only be a matter of seeking ways to peace and supporting all forces embarking on this path. In the 21st century, all other options are obsolete due to the nuclear threat. Here are some reflections and references to Europe’s rich humanitarian tradition in these times of war.

In Ukraine, US Adds to Barbaric Cluster-Bomb Legacy

U.S. cluster munitions have maimed and killed civilians in countries including Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq

by Abdul Rahman,* India

(8 August 2023) (Edit. CH-S) The delivery of cluster munitions from the USA to Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster. These weapons are at the expense of the civilian population. In the following article by Abdul Rahman, the circumstances surrounding the US delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine are examined in more detail.
On Swiss neutrality

Dangerous entanglement of the Swiss Armed Forces with NATO

by Jean-Paul Vuilleumier, editor of “Swiss Standpunkt”

(28 July 2023) Perpetual armed neutrality is one of the most important principles of Swiss foreign policy. The idea of neutrality is well anchored in our country, its people, and its history. To abolish it directly and openly is therefore not feasible. For several decades, however, efforts have been made to weaken and disintegrate the original concept of neutrality.
Serbia-Kosovo crisis

Emergence of an announced disaster

by Chiara Nalli,* Italy

(28 July 2023) (CH-S) The Italian journalist Chiara Nalli from “l’Antidiplomatico” decodes the conflict situation – often incomprehensible to us – in the north and south-east of Kosovo. It seems that the Serb and Albanian inhabitants do not get along. In this report from 31 May, the reader gets a deeper insight into the conflict situation. It is still unchanged after two months, the problems persisting. How is it that almost 25 years after NATO’s war against Serbia, which violated International Law, there is still no peace in Kosovo? The responsible protecting powers, the EU, NATO, but also the UN, why don’t they solve the conflict?
Book review

“The Human Rights Industry”

Alfred de Zayas: Reflections of a Veteran Human Rights Defender

Hans Köchler, President, International Progress Organization, www.i-p-o.org, Austria

(Vienna, July 2023) The «Human Rights Industry» by Alfred de Zayas is the most comprehensive and honest assessment and critique to date of the performance of institutions the international community has set up to monitor respect of those principles that underlie justice and the rule of law at the global level.