ICT4Peace congratulates Ambassador Paul Meyer for receiving The CNWC Distinguished Achievement Award, which will be presented to him by the Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention on 28 November 2022 ...
ICT4Peace Senior Advisor Anne-Marie Buzatu sat down with Ambassador Paul Meyer in the first of a series of interviews with ICT4Peace’s team members and partners. They discussed a wide range ...
Amb. Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of ICT4Peace on 29 April 2020 gave a statement at Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade public UN Cyber Consultation Meeting (see the Agenda of ...
Paul Meyer is Fellow in International Security and Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow with The Simons Foundation. Prior to assuming his current ...
From 10 to 12 December 2003 the UN held the first World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, where Heads of States and Governments approved the Geneva Declaration of ...
Cyber Security in the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security By Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace published first in the “First Committee Monitor” Vol 21 No 5 (4 November ...
Joint civil society statement on cyber peace and human security UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security The statement was delivered by Jasmine Cintron Soto on behalf ...
Amb. (ret.) Paul Meyer participated on behalf of ICT4Peace in the ODA/EUISS consultations of 16 June 2023 on the Program of Action (PoA) on Cybersecurity in the context of the ...
ICT4Peace Executive Director Anne-Marie Buzatu participated in the OSCE regional consultations on the proposed UN Program of Action for Cybersecurity on 14 June 2023. ICT4Peace has been supporting the creation ...
The UN’s Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the security and use of ICTs concluded its fourth session (March 6-10) at UN HQs in New York. The meeting was marked by ...
Statement by ICT4Peace at UN OEWG on ICT meeting with Stakeholders, December 6, 2022 Thank you Chair. I will speak briefly to the ICT4Peace submission for this meeting which has ...
“Walking the Walk” – A Programme of Action for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace by Amb. (ret.) Paul Meyer The UN General Assembly has had on its agenda since 1998 ...
The Third substantive Session of the UN Open-Endend Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (OEWG II) in New York under the ...
In view of the third Session of the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG II) on ICTs, which takes place from 25-29 July in New York, ICT4Peace is pleased to publish this ...
In preparation for the Third Substantive Session (New York, 25-29 July 2022) of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Peace and Security in Cyberspace (OEWG), Allison Pytlak, of the Women’s International League ...
ICT4Peace is proud to publish the Policy Brief by Martin Dahinden, Vice-Chair, ICT4Peace Foundation: How can Arms Control and Disarmament Contribute to a Secure Cyberspace ? The publication can be ...
On the occasion of the second substantive session UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG), Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chairman of OEWG invited stakeholders to informal consultations on the topic of capacity building. Amb. ...
Cyber Security at UN GA’s First Committee 2021 – An appearance of harmony On 3 November 2021 a new joint First Committee Resolution (L.13), co-sponsored by the US and Russia ...
Incremental Progress or Circular Motion? – The UN Group of Governmental Experts (UN GGE) Report 2021 Making progress on complex issues in a forum like the United Nations with 193 ...
It’s a pleasure for ICT4Peace to publish this compilation of its inputs to and comments on the negotiations of the United Nations open-ended working group on developments in the field ...
On Friday March 12, 2021, after one and half years of proceedings the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Information and Telecommunications (ICT) in the context of international security, ...
Article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) by Paul Meyer and Daniel Stauffacher. “The U.S. recently fell victim to a cyberattack of staggering proportions: Using a compromised software upgrade, a foreign ...
Recent cyberattacks underscore the need for international norms of responsible behavior, and an institutionalized process to support them. Article by Amb. (ret.) Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace in Policy Options, ...
It is more than a question of health – the need to protect critical infrastructure “It is not in the public interest if those possessing offensive cyber capabilities, believe ...
On August 26, 2020 at the initiative of Indonesia that month’s President of the UN Security Council, an informal “Arria formula” meeting was held. The theme was broadly the protection ...
Disconnects in state cyber behaviour: Accountability for attacks on Critical Infrastructure Last October, ICT4Peace launched a “Call to Governments on Offensive Cyber Operations and Critical Infrastructure” . This initiative was ...
Accountability: the missing ingredient in the comments by states on the OEWG draft report In reviewing the extensive commentary on the Chair’s “Pre-draft” report on the UN Open Ended Working ...
In view of the ongoing UN Negotiations (UN OEWG and UN GGE) ICT4Peace Proposed [1] a State “Cyber Peer Review Mechanism” for state-conducted foreign cyber operations. It has been generally acknowledged that some ...
Amb. Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace, has prepared the following submission to Australia’s Consultations ...
After having participated in the First substantive session of the OEWG – New York, 9-13 September 2019, where ICT4Peace delivered the following statement , along with a written submission of its views, ...
This fall in New York, the United Nations held the first session of a new process to develop norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. Since 1998, the UN has ...
At the invitation of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of the Foundation, prepared his analysis of the most recent developments at the United Nations and elsewhere regarding the ...
By Amb. Paul Meyer A fragile consensus over norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, as Paul Meyer observes, has fallen victim to East–West geopolitical tensions. Paul Meyer is Senior ...
Ambassador (ret) Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor of ICT4Peace in the workshop “Cybersecurity Challenges in the Government Sphere – Ethical, Legal and Technical Aspects” held in Bern September 5-6. The workshop ...
On 20 June 2017 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher and Paul Meyer released a commentary: “WannaCry, the Digital Geneva Convention and the urgent need for Cyber Peace”. This commentary was subsequently published ...
Download this commentary as a PDF here. ### A commentary by Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor and Daniel Stauffacher, President, ICT4Peace Foundation The mass assault of the “WannaCry” malware that holds ...
Foundation Board Maria Cattaui Chairperson Michael Møller Member of the Board Martin Dahinden Vice-Chairperson Nada Fornier Member of the Board Peter Grütter Board Member Daniel Stauffacher Founder, President and Member ...
ICT4Peace at UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 10 Year Review Consultations in New York Former Canadian Ambassador Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation, kindly represented ICT4Peace at ...
The latest report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) concerned with “Developments in the field of Information and Telecommunications in the context of International Security”) was published in ...
Upon invitation and with the support by the Government of the Netherlands, the ICT4Peace Foundation is honoured to organise a half day training Course on International Cybersecurity Diplomacy on 15 April 2015 in The ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Organisation of American States (OAS) conducted a first of its kind “Workshop on International Security and Diplomacy in Cyberspace” with over 50 participants (Diplomats, Security and ...
Ambassador (ret.) Paul Meyer (Moderator) and Dr. Eneken Tikk (on the far right) ICT4Peace, along with a number of representatives from think-tanks, academia, civil society organisations and the private sector ...
On 21 March 2014, former Ambassadors Daniel Stauffacher (Switzerland) and Paul Meyer (Canada) from the ICT4Peace Foundation, were invited by Director-General Michael Moller, United Nations Office at Geneva for an Executive ...
Dear Colleagues, 2013 has again been an eventful year for the ICT4Peace Foundation, not only in its work helping the UN and the international community to improve crisis information management ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation, as part of its ongoing work on Cybersecurity and Resilient Internet has called for enhanced cooperation among states to promote a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative ICT ...
ICT4Peace experts have called since 2004 for more robust international cooperation among states against threats resulting from the malicious use of ICTs to reduce risk and enhance security and to ...
Report on ICT4Peace International Dialogue on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and International Cyber Security – ETH Zurich, 20 to 21 June 2013. On 20 and 21 June 2013, the ICT4Peace ...
Image courtesy chinamil.com.cn/Zhang Zhe Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace participated in the Fourth Xiangshan Forum (Beijing, 16 to 18 November 2012) entitled “Asia-Pacific Security: New Issues and New Ideas”. The aim of ...
‘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 ...
Dr. Eneken Tikk and Amb. Paul Meyer participated for ICT4Peace in the Budapest Conference on Cyberspace 2012 on 4 and 5 October 2012. The Budapest Conference is part of a ...
Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace and Ambassador Paul Meyer have published an Op-ed on 23 July in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called “Disarmament Negotiations for the Cyberspace are needed”. The ...
The call for a regular institutional dialogue to continue consideration, under UN auspices, of the subject of information and tele-communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security has been a refrain ...
Cyber Security at the UN General Assembly First Committee – Déjà vu all over again
Cyber Security at the UN General Assembly First Committee – Déjà vu all over again A Commentary by ICT4Peace prepared by Paul Meyer On November 3rd the First Committee (Disarmament ...