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.”
Biography
Grace Pringle is a recent Master in Public Policy graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Co-Chair of the Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development student organization. She also worked as a course coach for Amb. Samantha Power, Amb. Wendy Sherman, Dr. Ronald Heifetz, and Dr. Kimberlyn Leary, and served as a Summer Defense Fellow in the Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Prior to HKS, Grace worked for UNICEF Sudan negotiating with parties to armed conflict to end the recruitment and use of children in hostilities and leading trainings on international humanitarian law. This built upon her experience serving as a policy advisor and delegate at the UK Mission to the UN, negotiating UN resolutions in the General Assembly and Security Council and leading policy campaigns on human rights, child protection, peacekeeping, atrocity prevention, and Africa. She holds a Bachelors in Public Health and Global Poverty and Practice from the University of California-Berkeley.
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