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Wanda Muñoz
Wanda Muñoz
Inclusion, Victim Assistance, and Humanitarian Disarmament Expert
twitter: @_wandamunoz   
email:
desarme [at] wandamunoz [dot] com

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harm to civilians - casualties, human rights, development | gender | killer robots | landmines and cluster munitions  

Wanda Muñoz has been working on socioeconomic inclusion of people with disabilities, assistance to victims of conflict and humanitarian disarmament for the past fifteen years. She has worked at project and policy levels in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, and contributed to the development of the victim assistance provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. She has authored various expert publications on victim assistance, inclusive livelihoods, gender-based violence, and autonomy in weapons systems.

Muñoz' current disarmament efforts focus on the issue of autonomy in weapons systems, particularly on their potential impact on marginalized groups and perspectives from the ethics on artificial intelligence. She is former member of the Human Security Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (SEHLAC) and former independent expert at the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence, nominated by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Muñoz holds a dual degree Master of International Affairs with a specialization in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris, for which she was a recipient of the French MFA Eiffel Excellence scholarship. 
She also holds a BA on International Affairs with specialization in Asian Affairs from Tec de Monterrey.
Recent Publications:
  • "Persons with disabilities in armed conflict," International Review of the Red Cross, November 2022. 
  • "Inteligencia Artificial Feminista: Hacia un agenda de investigación para América Latina," Red FAIR LAC, November 1, 2022.
  • "Ensuring access to mental health and psychosocial support in conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian settings," SEHLAC, ALSO, and RED-LAT, March 2022.*
  • "It Is About More Than Autonomous Weapons Systems," Disarmament Dialogue, August 30, 2021.
  • "Addressing gender-based violence in the context of assistance to victims of mines/ERW: recommendations for a way forward," SEHLAC, June 2021.
  • Discapacidad, conflicto armado y construcción de paz, National University of Colombia, June 2021.*
  • “Armas autónomas: una cuestión de derechos humanos, no de tecnología, y esto es lo que debes saber,” (“Autonomous weapons: it’s a question of human rights, not technology, and this is what you need to know”), SEHLAC Mexico, September 2020.*​
  • “Los riesgos de las armas autónomas: una perspectiva interseccional latinoamericana,” (“The risks of autonomous weapons: a Latin American intersectional perspective”) SEHLAC México, September 2020.*

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