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Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights

By Michael Bohlander

Book information

Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Year
2023
ISBN
9004677690, 9789004677692
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13998050 bytes)
Series
Studies in International Criminal Law; 5
Pages
241\267
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-22 18:50:08

Description

It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent species in the universe. Nothing about the others will be known until contact is made beyond a radio signal from space that merely tells us they existed when it was sent. That contact may occur tomorrow, in a hundred years, or never. If it does it will be a high-risk scenario for humanity. It may be peaceful or hostile. Relying on alien altruism and benign intentions is wishful thinking. We need to begin identifying as a planetary species, and develop a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.

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