Cyber Conflict
In: Richmond O., Visoka G. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_76-1, 2020
Posted: 29 Apr 2020
Date Written: February 29, 2020
Abstract
The development of cyber capabilities among state and non-state actors, as well as the increase of cyber dependency has made cyber conflict a plausible reality and no longer a hypothetical example. There is a general agreement among scholars and states that the traditional concept of conflict as set out in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol remains the same and is applicable to any new technological weapons and thus also applicable to cyberspace. However, the sophistication of cyber capabilities of states and the amplification of power of non-state actors in cyberspace have shifted the paradigms and blurred the lines of the clear delineation between international and non-international armed conflict and when the use of cyber capabilities triggers a conflict. As such the article will aim to provide some insight on when the use of cyber weapons by state...
Keywords: Cyber warfare; International humanitarian law; ius ad bellum; ius in bello; Self-defense; Law; Cybersecurity
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