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                  Kjersti Lohne left PRIO in 2025. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

                  Kjersti Lohne

                  Kjersti Lohne

                  Research Interests

                  • International criminal justice and transitional justice
                  • Human rights organizations and transnational advocacy
                  • Global criminology and sociology of law, incl. criminal justice in foreign policy
                  • Societal responses to terrorism incl. terror trials

                  Kjersti Lohne
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                  Conference paper

                  2016

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

                  Conference paper

                  Popular article

                  2015

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

                  Popular article in Open Democracy

                  Popular article

                  2015

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

                  Popular article in IntLawGrrls

                  Journal article

                  2015

                  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

                  Photo: Flickr/Teymur Madjderey. Photo: Flickr/Teymur Madjderey

                  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 ...
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