The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
A conversation with U.N. Peacekeeping Officials
Event Speakers: Michael Gaouette: Team Leader, Darfur Integration; David Harland: U.N. Peacekeeping Operations; Susana Malcorra: Under Sec. General, U.N. Dept. of Field Support
Event Moderators: Jacqueline Bhabha: Director of the Harvard University Committe on Human Rights Studies
Event CoSponsors: Office of Career Advancement