User:Wanyana racheal

Racheal Wanyana is an international lawyer, gender, peace and security expert. She has held senior advisory positions in international organisations and provided technical advice to government agencies, intergovernmental bodies and global programmes in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Wanyana's programmatic and research work spans multiple fields including: Gender and international development, International criminal law and arms control, Law and emerging military technologies, Outer space security, South-north security cooperation, Peacebuilding and conflict transformation, Humanitarian action, and Anti-corruption.

Wanyana has a strong policy acumen and technical knowledge relevant to multilateral arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation. She has undertaken independent solution-oriented policy research exploring: the contributions that the international humanitarian law (IHL) concept of military necessity-humanity-balance can make in providing a suitable normative backdrop for IHL compliant military uses of artificial intelligence; the potential of international criminal law to deter irresponsible (but legal) arms transfers on the basis of principles of accomplice liability; and the efficacy of international law in addressing the weaponisation of outer-space. ​ Wanyana holds a Master of Laws Degree in European and International Law from the University of Athens, and is currently pursuing a PhD in law and security at NOVA University of Lisbon.