28. January 2021

Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited on 27 January 2021 to participate in an online panel discussion organized by the Inter-Parlamentary Union (IPU) on the Role of Parliamentarians to Advance Disarmament in Cyber-space. In her presentation she thanked for IPU’s commitment and work to promote a peaceful cyberspace and underlined the critical role Parliaments can play in promoting peace and security in cyberspace and oversee Government policies and actions in this regard. She mentioned ICT4Peace’s work since 2003 in this field and presented in particular the ICT4Peace inputs to the ongoing negotiations of the UN GGE and UN OEWG:

The webinar was organized by the IPU “in response to the Resolution adopted at the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly entitled Cyber-warfare: A serious threat to Peace and Global Security, and as one of a number of events in follow-up  to the launch of Assuring our Common Future, a parliamentary handbook published in November 2020 to assist implementation of Securing our Common Future, the Disarmament Agenda released by the UN Secretary-General.”

“Outline

Cyber-space is an evolving environment which is increasingly used across all fields of human activity. It is an environment which is vulnerable to the use of cyber-attacks that can have devastating impacts. It is also an environment which is used by militaries in war fighting and defence. And it is an environment that is used in diplomacy and peacebuilding.

This webinar event  focussed primarily on the topic of disarmament, warfare and peace in cyberspace. Speakers will examine the nature of warfare in cyber-space, the use of cyber-platforms for military actions, existing mechanisms and law to control cyber-warfare and examples of good policies and parliamentary action to address this issue.

The webinar also included the launch of the French edition of Assuring our Common Future.”

Speakers

Moderator:
Mr Marc Finaud. Head of Arms Proliferation, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Launch of French edition of the Handbook:
Ms Anda Filip, Director for Member Parliaments and External Relations at the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Speakers:
Mr Saber Chowdhury MP. Honorary President of the InterParliamentary Union. Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
Mr Tilman Rodenhauser, Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross.
Ms Anne-Marie Buzatu. Chief Operations Officer, ICT4Peace Foundation.
Mr Arthur Duforest, Research Assistant, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament

Recording of the panel discussion can be found here

Event cosponsors

Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, World Future Council.

Background resources

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ICT4Peace is happy to recall that Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace along with Dr. Karsten Geier from the German Foreign Ministry have been invited by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) to present on Peace and Security in Cyberspace at their Annual Meeting on 17 October 2017 in St. Petersburg. They participated in a Panel discussion of the IPU Standing Committee on Peace and International Security on the implementation of the IPU Resolution entitled “CYBER WARFARE: A SERIOUS THREAT TO PEACE AND GLOBAL SECURITY” approved in Hanoi in 2015.