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A coalition of states is seeking to avert a U.S. attack, and Israel is in the forefront of their mind.
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Removing the Heat from Cyber Competition and Conflict
Even though the progress on cybernorms over 2015 was sudden, that success had in fact been built on the years of hard work by diplomats, cyberexperts, and many others.
By Tim Maurer and Jason Healey
Published on Apr 25, 2016
Source: Global Digital Futures Policy Forum 2016
Only a few year s ago, there were almost no norms globally accepted by governments on cybersecurity or cyber conflict. Even the United States, which had long pushed such norms, had publicly announced very few. The United States and a few other allies confirmed that laws of armed conflict (otherwise known as International Humanitarian Law or the “Geneva Convention”) applied to cyberspace.
This has changed with tremendous progress recently, so much so that 2015 could be called was the Year of Global Cyber Norms....
This paper is part of the 2016 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum.
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