‘Jaw Jaw’ is better than ‘War War’: International Security in Cyberspace[1] by Paul Meyer[2] “Jaw Jaw is better than War War” is Winston Churchill’s famous maxim concerning the desirability of dialogue over destruction in the conduct of relations between states. As a great war-time leader, it was not that Churchill was a pacifist, but he did see the merit of trying to resolve disputes first on the basis of dialogue and mutual understanding, before having recourse to armed force. As a former diplomat, I share the predisposition when faced with a new challenge to international security to look first to possibilities for conflict prevention through the application of diplomacy. As a result, when I sur...

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A report on the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations.

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Academic Background and Career Highlights Dr. Daniel STAUFFACHER, a former Ambassador of Switzerland, has a Master’s degree in International Economic Affairs from Columbia University, New York and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Zürich. He worked for the district court of Zurich and the Swiss private sector before joining the United Nations. In 1982 he joined the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York and subsequently the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Laos (1984) and China (1987). In Laos he was responsible for UNDP’s rural development and poverty alleviation programmes and in China for managing UNDP’s technical assistance support to the economic and administrative refo...

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Chairperson of the Board, Crisis Management Initiative Former President on Finland. After a distinguished career with the United Nations and the Finnish Foreign Ministry, Martti Ahtisaari was elected as President of the Republic of Finland in 1994. He held the position until the end of February 2000. In December 2008 Mr. Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon leaving office as President of the Republic of Finland, Mr. Ahtisaari has taken several international tasks to continue his career in international peace-mediation and conflict resolution. After leaving the office of the President, Martti Ahtisaari founded Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), a Non-Governmental Organisation to continue his legacy ...

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Barbara Weekes is Director of Strategy and Content for the Geneva Security Forum (June 2007 and GSF Telecom 2009) and member of the policy advisory board of the ICT4Peace foundation (meeting Mumbai 2008). Barbara also works in close collaboration with Dr Stauffacher + Partner Consulting, Zurich-Geneva, on various strategic advisory projects including Swiss-China Environmental Cooperation and the GenevaNetwork. Barbara is Director of the Program for the Future of Europe Summit in Andorra, and has advised clients on content and high-level symposiums including the Schulich School of Business, Toronto. In partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, she conceived and executed the business roundtable: Buildi...

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Maria Livanos Cattaui is a member of the Board of Directors of Petroplus Holdings AG, Switzerland. She was Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2005. She has championed the role of world business in the global economy. She has been instrumental in establishing a global partnership between business and the United Nations, leading to greater business input into UN economic activities. Mrs Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she became Managing Director, responsible for the celebrated Annual Meeting in Davos, building the public awareness it enjoys today. She holds Executive Board, Board and Advisory Board memberships on many organizations an...

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As former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace, Alain Modoux is internationally recognized for his unwavering commitment to press freedom. He is, inter alia, the architect of the UNESCO proposal which led to the decision by the General Assembly of the United Nations to proclaim 3 May "World Press Freedom Day".

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Sanjana read English at the University of Delhi, India and as a Rotary World Peace Fellow, was awarded an Advanced Masters in Conflict Resolution and International Relations from the University of Queensland, Brisbane with a Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives and a frequent commentator on journalism and new media in domestic and international fora. In addition to hosting a talk show on public television, Sanjana teaches at the Sri Lanka College of Journalism (SLCJ), engaging journalists from state, private, alternative media on how to use web, internet and mobile technologies to strengthen professional, independent and investigative jou...

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Nigel Snoad currently advises UN OCHA on Crisis Information Management. Nigel is faculty at Parsons the New School for Design's Humanitarian Design Lab, is an advisor to the ICT4Peace foundation and the Institute for State Effectiveness, and part of the advisory board for MIT's Geospatial Data Center and Kopernik, a technology and development NGO startup. Previously Nigel led research inside Microsoft on Humanitarian Systems, working in Afghanistan and elsewhere on new crisis collaboration concepts. Nigel also developed projects on citizen and community resilience and disaster response as a part of Microsoft's Public Safety Initiative and Disaster Response team. Before joining Microsoft Nigel was with the United Na...

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Mr Desai is a Special Adviser to the UN for the World Summit on an Information Society and chaired the UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance. He is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE. He is on the advisory board of several international NGO initiatives including the organising committee for the World Science Assembly set up by the Royal Institution, UK and the Governing Council of the University for Peace, Costa Rica. In India he is an Honorary Professor at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Energy and Resources Institut...

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