Cyberattacks and cyber conflict : where is conflict resolution?
Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In this paper we analyse cyberattacks and cyber conflict and the challenges they pose to the \nfield of conflict resolution. State and non-state actors alike are conducting cyberattacks in \nnew and sophisticated ways that result in conflicts which are not readily addressed by conflict \nresolution approaches. Consequently, these developments in cyberspace take place without \nmuch input from conflict resolution scholars and practitioners. \nWe suggest that these developments in cyberspace result in changing relationships between \nactors, and thus potentially different types of conflict, based around two key problems. First, \nthere is the problem of attribution. Cyberspace is inherently linked with anonymity and \nattributing a cyberattack with certainty is almost never possible. In addition, it is difficult to \ndistinguish the difference between various types of actors, which include a mixture of states, \nnon-state groups, and individual hackers.
Source: OAR@UM (University of Malta)
Authors: Monika Wohlfeld, Jack Jasper
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2925061747