Publications

The Weaponization of Cyberspace and a New “Global Mechanism” at the UN

27.10.2025 Paul Meyer

Social Media, Democracy and Conflict in South Asia

14.10.2025 Sanjana Hattotuwa

ADVANCING GLOBAL DIGITAL GOVERNANCE: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions in ICT State Behavior and Multilateral Frameworks

19.07.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Draft Final Report of UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Cybersecurity (2021 - 2025) and Letter of Chair of OEWG

14.07.2025 Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chair, Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025

Joint civil society statement at Chairʼs informal dialogue on July 3, 2025 Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) (2021-2025)

12.07.2025 Civil Society Organisations

Navigating the Digital Frontier: How the WSIS Geneva Declaration Shapes Rights, Ethics and Responsibilities

25.06.2025 Daniel Stauffacher with the help of ChatGPT and Ithy.

Lived experience over liked algorithms: The enduring primacy of human agency in peacebuilding

25.06.2025 Sanjana Hattotuwa

Cybersecurity. Digital diplomacy has become a strategic field in its own right.

22.04.2025 Interview with Anne-Marie Buzatu

Overview of ICT4Peace Projects in 2025

02.04.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Responsible Technology Use

02.04.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

ICT4Peace Statement at Informal Dialogue with OEWG Stakeholders on 13 February 2025

28.02.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Overview of ICT4Peace Projects in 2025

17.02.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

The Paris AI Summit: The cleavages over global governance made apparent

15.02.2025 Amb. Paul Meyer

ICT4Peace 2024 Year End and Outlook 2025 Report

10.01.2025 Anne-Marie Buzatu

“We are engaged in a world war of stories – a war between incompatible versions of reality – and we need to learn how to fight it.” Salman Rushdie, Knife

24.12.2024 Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa

The first international treaty on AI governance – a basis for convergence or dissention?

20.12.2024 Amb. Paul Meyer

ICT4Peace Cyber Security Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building Program

01.12.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu and Daniel Stauffacher

ICT4Peace Remarks to UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) Informal Stakeholder Consultations United Nations, New York, 27 November 2024

01.12.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Full Toolkit: From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Introduction to the Toolkit: From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 1: Human Rights Challenges Posed by Technologies Used In Private Security Services

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 2: Responsible Data Collection Practices

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 3: Best Practices for Data Storage

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 4: Best Practices for Data Security

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 5: Best Practices for Data Destruction

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 6: Surveillance and Monitoring

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 7: Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 8: Emerging Technologies and Future Trends in Private Security

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 9: Accountability and Transparency in ICT Practices for Private Security Companies

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 10: Freedom of Expression and Information in PSC Operations

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 11: Labor Rights in the Digital Age for PSCs

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Tool 12: Right to Remedy and Effective Grievance Mechanisms for PSCs

11.11.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Defining State Responsibility for Private Military Security Companies (PMSCs)

15.10.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu and James Siebens

The cooperation of ICT4Peace with the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) and the Zurich Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF)

07.10.2024 Daniel Stauffacher

ICT4Peace – Input for informal OEWG on ICT Security consultation. July 3, 2024

12.07.2024 Paul Meyer, Anne-Marie Buzatu

ICT4Peace Statement to 8th Substantive Session of the UN OEWG on ICTs

12.07.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

ICT4Peace Academy - Bridging the Gap between Policy and Technology

20.05.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

ICT4Peace comments and recommendations regarding the Global Digital Compact (GDC) Zero Draft

03.05.2024 Paul Meyer and Daniel Stauffacher

Navigating the Quantum Wave - A Policy Maker’s Guide for Responsible Governance of Quantum Technologies

02.05.2024 Drífa Atladóttir

The future of cybersecurity policy lies in civil society

30.03.2024 Julia-Silvana Hofstetter

Navigating Cyberspace: Insights from Daniel Stauffacher

30.03.2024 Lena Herbst

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Policy - Overview of ICT4Peace Projects in 2024

16.02.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

ICT4Peace 2023 Year End and Outlook 2024 Report

03.02.2024 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Safeguarding Information Integrity: Addressing Externality Costs of Misinformation in the Digital Age

22.12.2023 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Statement by Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive Director to the OEWG Informal Stakeholder Consultations, 6 December 2023

16.12.2023 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Report on the 2023 Cyber Security Debate in the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security

08.11.2023 Paul Meyer

Rapport du Groupe de travail exécutif chargé de formuler des propositions opérationnelles pour renforcer l’action de la Francophonie dans le champ du numérique (GTEN)

29.09.2023 Rapporteur: Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace

Stellungnahme der ICT4Peace Foundation zur Strategie der internationalen Zusammenarbeit 2025 - 2028 (IZA-Botschaft 25 - 28)

11.08.2023 Martin Dahinden, Anne-Marie Buzatu, Daniel Stauffacher

ICT4Peace 2022 Annual Report

11.08.2023 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Statement by ICT4Peace at the OEWG Stakeholder Session, 26 July 2023

29.07.2023 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Statement by ICT4Peace to ODA/EUISS Consultations on the “Programme of Action” in the context of the OEWG on ICT Security

18.06.2023 Paul Meyer

The Plot Thickens: the UN Open-Ended Working Group on ICTs – Fourth Session

16.03.2023 Paul Meyer

Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity

09.03.2023 Julia Hofstetter and Panthea Pourmalek

Responsibly mining the "New Gold"

12.02.2023 Anne-Marie Buzatu

Can Arms Control and Disarmament Contribute to a Secure Cyberspace?

24.01.2023 Martin Dahinden

Statement by ICT4Peace at UN OEWG on ICT meeting with Stakeholders, December 6, 2022

10.12.2022 Paul Meyer

Submission by ICT4Peace to the OEWG on ICT Inter-sessional meeting, December 6, 2022

15.11.2022 Paul Meyer

Cyber Security at the UN General Assembly First Committee – Déjà vu all over again

11.11.2022 Paul Meyer

From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace: A Mapping Study on the use of ICTs in Security Services by Commercial Actors

08.09.2022 Anne-Marie Buzatu

UN OEWG – Walking the Talk: For a new UN Program of Action (PoA) for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace

15.08.2022 Paul Meyer

Statement by ICT4Peace Foundation to the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) Stakeholder Session, 27 July 2022

22.07.2022 Anne-Marie Buzatu

The Digital Space and Peace Processes - A Thought Piece

15.06.2022 Lisa Schirch

How can Arms Control and Disarmament Contribute to a Secure Cyberspace

13.04.2022 Martin Dahinden

Statement by ICT4Peace to second substantive session of Cyber OEWG – March 31, 2022

01.04.2022 Paul Meyer

Ethical and Political Perspectives on Emerging Digital Technologies

25.03.2022 Regina Surber (Author) and Daniel Stauffacher (Editor)

ICT4Peace Academy - Cyber Security Policy and Diplomacy Capacity BuildingProgram

10.02.2022 Anne-Marie Buzatu and Daniel Stauffacher

Digitization: Curse or Blessing for the Bottom Billion ?

03.02.2022 Martin Dahinden

Submission by ICT4Peace to the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025

25.01.2022

ICT4Peace Statement at Virtual, Informal Consultative Discussion with Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Security of and in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) 2021-2025

17.12.2021 Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President and COO of ICT4Peace

Cyber Security at UNGA’s First Committee 2021 – An appearance of harmony

04.11.2021 Paul Meyer

Women, Peace, and Security and Human Rights in the Digital Age: Opportunities and risks to advance women’s meaningful participation and protect their rights

28.10.2021 Policy Brief The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) and The ICT4Peace Foundation

The Nature of Disinformation and Nurture of Democratic Responses

19.08.2021 Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher

Re-Imaging Responses to Extremism: The Importance of Context, Culture and Community

19.06.2021 Sanjana Hattotuwa

Incremental Progress or Circular Motion? The UN Group of Governmental Experts Report 2021

13.06.2021 Paul Meyer

Digital Technologies, Peacebuilding and Civil Society - Addressing Digital Conflict Drivers and Moving the Digital Peacebuilding Agenda Forward

08.05.2021 Julia-Silvana Hofstetter

ICT4Peace and the Open-Ended Working Group on International Cybersecurity (UN OEWG) 2019-2021

07.04.2021 Paul Meyer and Daniel Stauffacher

The OEWG Final Report: Some Progress, Much Remains Unresolved

21.03.2021 Paul Meyer

Self-Defence against Cyberattacks ? - Digital and Kinetic Defence in Light of Article 51 UN Charter

01.03.2021 Sara Pangrazzi

Schweizer Neutralität im Zeitalter der Cyberkriegsführung

11.02.2021 Martin Dahinden

La Neutralité de la Suisse à l'ère de la Cyberguerre

11.02.2021 Martin Dahinden

Swiss Neutrality in the Age of Cyber Warfare

11.02.2021 Martin Dahinden

Hate Speech on the Net, a Danger for Society and Democracy

11.02.2021 Sophie Achermann

Comments by ICT4Peace on the “Zero Draft” report of the UN Open Ended Working Group

01.02.2021 ICT4Peace Foundation

Comments by ICT4Peace on Chair’s Revised Pre-draft Report – OEWG

16.12.2020 ICT4Peace Fundation

Time for a Swiss Digital Charter? An ICT4Peace Proposal

27.11.2020 Barbara Weekes

A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications

22.04.2020 Beatriz Botero Arcila

When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19

08.04.2020 Anne-Marie Buzatu

CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE?

02.04.2020 Regina Surber

ICT4Peace proposed "States Cyber Peer Review" Mechanism

01.03.2020 Paul Meyer

Making Cybersecurity Institution- and Capacity Building ODA-eligible

26.02.2020 Daniel Stauffacher

ICT4Peace in Action Since 2004

26.01.2020 Daniel Stauffacher

Critical Infrastructure and Offensive Cyber Operations - A Call to Governments

30.11.2019 ICT4Peace Foundation

Meeting Report: Workshop on Trusted Attribution in Cyberspace

30.09.2019 Jacqueline Eggenschwiler

ICT4Peace Submission to the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on ICT and International Security

31.07.2019 Eneken Tikk, Paul Meyer, Daniel Stauffacher

UN GGE and UN OEWG: How to live with two concurrent UN Cybersecurity processes

30.05.2019 Daniel Stauffacher

ICT for Peace Foundation Policy Paper: Christchurch Call

14.05.2019 Barbara Weekes, Sanjana Hattotuwa

Are governments outsourcing protection of fundamental rights to companies?

24.04.2019 Regina Surber

Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual

23.04.2019 Regina Surber

ICT4Peace at the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March, 2019

04.04.2019 Dr. Regina Surber

Digital Human Security 2020: Human security in the age of AI: Securing and empowering individuals

20.12.2018 Barbara Weekes

Trust and Attribution in Cyberspace

06.12.2018 Serge Droz, Daniel Stauffacher

Global Cyber Security Norms: A Proliferation Problem?

03.12.2018 Paul Meyer

High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation Reflections and Recommendations from the ICT4Peace Foundation

30.11.2018 Barbara Weekes, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Daniel Stauffacher

The Struggle for Cyber Peace: Norms of responsible state behaviour

30.09.2018 Paul Meyer

UN Crisis Information Management Stocktaking Exercise, 2017-2018 Collection of key documents

01.03.2018 Sanjana Hattotuwa

Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Technology (AT), Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and Peace Time Threats

21.02.2018 Regina Surber

2018 The year that cyber peace became non-binding

31.12.2017 Eneken Tikk

Tech against Terrorism: Supporting the tech industry in tackling the use of internet technologies for terrorist purposes whilst respecting human rights

31.12.2017

Civil Society and Disarmament: Voluntary, Non-Binding Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in the Use of Information and Communications Technology

31.12.2017 Daniel Stauffacher, Eneken Tikk

Nations debate autonomous weapons systems

11.12.2017 Emanuel Teicher

WannaCry, the Geneva Digital Convention and the urgent need for Cyber Peace

31.05.2017 Paul Meyer, Daniel Stauffacher

Private Sector Engagement in Responding to the Use of the Internet and ICT for Terrorist Purposes

30.06.2016 Camino Kavanagh, Marc Porret

The G7 Summit 2016 and Cyberspace: “Give Peace a Chance”

03.06.2016 Paul Meyer

Note to the High Commissioner of Human Rights: Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

19.02.2016 Sanjana Hattotuwa

ICT4Peace Note to OHCHR: Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

19.02.2016 Sanjana Hattotuwa

ICT4Peace to Second WSIS+10 Interactive Stakeholder Consultations – UN HQ

31.10.2015 Paul Meyer

Peacekeepers in the sky

30.09.2015 Helena Puig Larrauri, Patrick Meier

Another Year, Another GGE? The slow process of norm building for cyberspace

31.08.2015 Paul Meyer

NORMS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY: THE NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS OF INTERNATIONAL CYBER COOPERATION

29.05.2015 Mika Kerttunen, Saskia Kiisel

A Role for Civil Society? ICTs, Norms and Confidence Building Measures in the Context of International Security

30.06.2014 Camino Kavanagh, Daniel Stauffacher

¿UN PAPEL PARA LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL? TIC, NORMAS Y MEDIDAS DE CONSTRUCCIÓN DE CONFIANZA EN EL CONTEXTO DE LA SEGURIDAD INTERNACIONAL

30.06.2014 Camping Kavanagh and Daniel Stauffacher

Baseline Review ICT-Related Processes and Events Implications for International and Regional Security

31.03.2014 Camino Kavanagh, Tim Maurer, Eneken Tikk

Baseline Review ICT-Related Processes and Events Implications for International and Regional Security in Chinese Language

31.03.2014 Camino Kavanaugh, Tim Maurer, Eneken Tikk

Cyber Security Affairs: Global and regional processes, agendas and instruments

31.12.2013 Barbara Weekes, Eneken Tikk

The reach of soft power in responding to international cybersecurity challenges

31.10.2013 Camino Kavanagh, Daniel Stauffacher

Seoul Conference on Cyberspace: ICT4Peace Special Session: Norms and CBMS - Moving towards a more inclusive agenda

17.10.2013 Camino Kavanagh

Confidence building measures and international cyber security

30.06.2013 Camino Kavanagh, Daniel Stauffacher

Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunication in the Context of International Security: Work of the UN First Committee

30.06.2012 Eneken Tikk

The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and aid efficiency

31.03.2012 Barbara Weekes, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Daniel Stauffacher

Getting down to business: Realistic goals for the promotion of peace in cyberspace

31.12.2011 Barbara Weekes, Riccardo Sibilia, Daniel Stauffacher

Digital Development Debates: Crisis Management - Understanding the Real Impact of ICTs, Social Media and Crisis Mapping

24.06.2011 Daniel Stauffacher Barbara Weekes Sanjana Hattotuwa

Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting hype from reality

31.01.2011 Barbara Weekes, Colin Maclay, Urs Gasser, Michael Best, Daniel Stauffacher

Cross-­fertilisation of UN Common Operational Datasets and Crisismapping

31.10.2010 Sanjana Hattotuwa, Daniel Stauffacher

ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes

31.10.2010 Caroline Hargreaves, Sanjana Hattotuwa

Haiti and beyond: Getting it right in Crisis Information Management

27.03.2010 Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher

Interim Report: Stocktaking of UN Crisis Information Management Capabilities

14.07.2008 Sanjana Hattotuwa, Daniel Stauffacher

Cyclone Nargis and ICT for Humanitarian Aid

30.06.2008 Sanjana Hattotuwa

Cyclone Nargis: Lessons and implications for ICTs in Humanitarian Aid

30.06.2008 Sanjana Hattotuwa

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04.05.2008 Daniel Stauffacher and Sanjana Hattotuwa

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17.11.2007

ICT4Peace: An International Process for Crisis Management

31.10.2007 Sanjana Hattotuwa, Daniel Stauffacher

In conversation with Daniel Stauffacher, Founder and Chairman of ICT4Peace

04.09.2007 Sanjana Hattotuwa

ICT4Peace: An International Process for Crisis Management

03.04.2007 Daniel Stauffacher

Letter from UN ASG Fabrizio Civili to ICT4Peace

26.10.2006 Fabrizio Civili

Letter to Amb. Daniel Stauffacher on behalf of the UN ICT Task Force and UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)

04.07.2006 Letter by UN Under-Secretary-General José Antonio Ocampo to Amb. Daniel Stauffacher

The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future

31.12.2005 Opening Statement: Kofi Annan. Preface: Yoshio Utsumi. Edited: Daniel Stauffacher, Wolfgang Kleinwächter

WSIS Geneva 2003 - A Tribute to those who made it happen

24.12.2005 Daniel Stauffacher

Information and Communication Technology for Peace - The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict

30.06.2005 Preface by Kofi Annan, Foreword by Micheline Calmy-Rey, By Daniel Stauffacher, William Drake, Paul Currion and Julia Steinberger

Untying the Gordian Knot: ICT for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding

30.06.2004 Sanjana Hattotuwa