areas of war and the UN Charter --- Lets seek to reason together for a moment: If the UN as an international body for Peace has given members the right to self defense (Article 51) and further codifies "jus ad bellum"(right to war") and "jus in bello" (law in war") then its logical to conclude that war can be justified and secondly there are specific rules to be followed when conducting a war; all these terms and ideas are for conventional warfare. Now having gotten more sophisticated and "advanced", nations have moved conventional warfare into cyberspace and now we speak of cyberwarfare and thus cyber weapons; if diplomats and politicians despite their stockpiling of these lethal conventional weapons seemed to have the wisdom to establish a Treaty on Disarmament, I can also postulate that the same should be done in cyberspace because these cyber arsenals are just as lethal or even more dangerous than a tank or machine guns and even a missile.

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm