What do we regulate? --- Although cyberwarfare as an issue in diplomacy and international is not new, there is no clarity on how to regulate it. It is not an easy task to transfer the international regulatory framework to the cyber field. International law, humanitarian law, and disarmament processes have long addressed a physical aspect: violence and harm (we can see and count weapons and victims and visualize damage to infrastructure). In this course, we have studied how cyber-attacks cause harm, which can be a starting point to reflect further and explain how the lives of citizens in our countries are affected by them. If we want to pursue a similar path in codifying norms, decision-makers need to see concrete ways in which society’s lives are affected. The threshold of cyber-attacks should be discussed more deeply if we want to end up with something similar to a global treaty or the Geneva conventions.

Source author: Juan Feliciano Ascencio Moctezuma jascencio@sre.gob.mx