Kjersti Lohne

Research Professor

Email: kjeloh@prio.org

Research Interests

Humanitarian governance and international NGOs
International criminal and transitional justice
Transnational fields and power networks
Crime and punishment (penality) in global society

Kjersti Lohne
This profile contains centre-specific content. View the full profile at PRIO.org.

Publications
Blog posts

Conference paper

2016

The fight against impunity: The construction of a panacea for sexual violence in conflict?

Conference paper

What's wrong with the idea that 'robots don't rape'?

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Killing the ‘Robots-don’t-Rape’ Argument

Gender and Crime Revisited: Criminological Gender Research on International and Transnational Crime and Crime Control

Journal article in Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 13 Aug 2015

A graffiti artist’s impression of a military drone. . Photo: CC/Thierry Ehrmann

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Killing the ‘Robots-don’t-Rape’ Argument

Earlier this spring, we debated a law professor who insisted that lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS) could clean up war. The professor posited that a war fought with autonomous weapons would be a war without rape. Taking humans out of the loop would, the argument goes, lead to more humane war. ...

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 2 Dec 2015

What’s Wrong with the Idea that ‘Robots don’t Rape’?

The politics of rape denunciation is fast becoming the politics of lobbyists, vendors and military manufacturers seeking access to new customers and markets. The recognition of wartime rape as a fundamental violation of international law has been a hard-fought victory. Ending rape and other forms of sexual violence in war ...

An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. An unhandled exception has occurred. See browser dev tools for details. Reload 🗙