Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert identify a problematic lack of engagement with AI in the humanitarian strategies of donor countries and offer a set of pointers for framing conversations on AI in aid policy.
Artificial intelligence robot hand and human hand. Image: Getty Images.
While Norway aims to support the struggle for democracy and peace in Myanmar, the Norwegian immigration authorities prevent meaningful collaborations.
Logo of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (Utlendingsdirektoratet, UDI) on a sign in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Brage Aronsen.
The summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11 and 12 will likely not produce any sensational joint decisions; it is set, nevertheless, to signify a major step in reconfiguring and reinforcing the European security system.
Vilnius July 11: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife attend a dinner hosted by the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda within the NATO Heads of State and Government Summit. Photo: Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has shaken this system badly, and NATO, which used to be just one of the structures in this complex institutional architecture, has taken on a pivotal role in restoring the material and normative foundations of common security.
Ensuring and demonstrating the unity of allies is always a central task of such meetings, but this summit has the harder task of consolidating the purpose of this unity — to invest all necessary efforts in empowering Ukraine to defeat Russia’s aggression and restore its territorial integrity.
The Kremlin pins its hopes for prevailing in the long war on splits in Western solidarity, and it is about to receive an unequivocal message that time is not on its side.Read More
The resonance from the June 24 mutiny attempted by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the notorious Wagner group, remains strong, despite the attempts by President Vladimir Putin to demonstrate a swift restoration of stability in Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with African leaders on June 17, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photo: Getty Images.
Questions about the drivers, participants and consequences of the Wagner Group mutiny on June 23 and 24 are set to remain unanswered as the Russian leadership finds it necessary to close that shocking page.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to his meeting with officers of Russian army and secret services who prevented an invasion of the Wagner Group to the Russian capital, on June 27, 2023 in Moscow, Russia. Photo: Getty Images
The weekend mutiny of the Wagner Group, pathetic as it may look in hindsight, is certain to affect Russia’s ability to sustain its aggression against Ukraine and to repel the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive.
But it will also resonate in a much wider sense.
Vladimir Putin and Algerian President Abdelmajud Tebboune during the International Economic Forum in St Petersburg in June 2023. Photo: Getty Images Europe
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Oslo 2022. Photo: Marit Moe-Pryce / PRIO
The summer economic forum in St. Petersburg used to be a vanity fair of Russian opulence and corruption. But last week’s modest, if not frugal, event was rather an exercise in self-reassurance of sustainable stagnation.
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. 2023. Photo: Alexey Kudenko, RIA Novosti / kremlin.ru
The protracted deadlock in the trenches of the war in Ukraine is giving way to high-intensity battles, and this escalation instantly generates widespread international resonance, in which expectations of a Ukrainian victory are mixed with concerns about a Russian defeat.
Photo: Lau Svensson / Wikimedia Commons
Now, the initiative is clearly with the Ukrainian forces, which, from June 5, started a series of probing attacks along the 600-mile frontline, insisting on complete information silence about their scope and outcome (Novayagazeta.eu, June 8).Read More
Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military philosopher, was rarely studied in Soviet military academies, but the Ukrainian high command — seeking to “win first and start fighting after” — appears to be taking a page out of his treatise, The Art of War.
Every day, a new tactical strike is delivered where it is the least expected. Russian policemen by a damaged residential building following a reported drone attack in Moscow May 30, 2023. Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
Naturally, the intentions for a spring offensive have now become a plan for a summer offensive; even so, the time in between was not wasted.