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 of issues, including Paul Meyer’s background in cyber diplomacy, the genesis and development of ICT4Peace’s two Calls to Governments (see below), multilateral initiatives regarding responsible behavior in cyberspace, what the pandemic reveals in terms of cyber peace and cyber diplomacy, and what future challenges lie ahead on the ICT horizon.
The two ICT4Peace Calls to Governments are as follows:
“ICT4Peace calls upon governments, especially those possessing offensive cyber capabilities, to publicly confirm that they will respect the norm prohibiting cyber operations directed at critical infrastructure. This will provide a proactive means of assuring the international community that these states are committed to acting in a responsible manner in cyberspace.”
“It has been generally acknowledged that some form of mechanism to hold states to account for their cyber operations affecting other states would be desirable. Such a mechanism would be premised as a cooperative process that would be state-centric, but which would also provide for the input of other stakeholders. Among existing models, the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism2 is especially relevant to the cyber security context in its combination of state-led mutual examination and NGO input and participation. The Universal Periodic Review applies to all 193 UN member states with a periodicity of approximately once every 4.5 years. While this timing and scope is appropriate for the scrutiny of human rights implementation, something more selective and frequent for foreign cyber activity would be preferable.
It is suggested that the initial scope of the cyber peer review (CPR) would be those states which have declared a capability for offensive cyber operations by their militaries or foreign intelligence agencies.”
Kindly see the short version of the interview with Paul Meyer, explaining the rational of the two Calls mentioned above:
