United Nations Digital Blue Helmets as a Starting Point for Cyber Peacekeeping
Nikolay Akatyev, Joshua I. James

TL;DR
This paper explores how the United Nations' existing peacekeeping structures and initiatives like the Digital Blue Helmets can serve as a foundation for developing effective cyber peacekeeping strategies to prevent cyber conflicts.
Contribution
It provides a comparative analysis of traditional UN peacekeeping, current cyber initiatives, and the proposed Cyber Peacekeeping framework to offer practical recommendations for UN cyber peacekeeping implementation.
Findings
UN mandates overlap with CPK needs
Digital Blue Helmets align with CPK responsibilities
Recommendations for integrating CPK into UN structures
Abstract
Prior works, such as the Tallinn manual on the international law applicable to cyber warfare, focus on the circumstances of cyber warfare. Many organizations are considering how to conduct cyber warfare, but few have discussed methods to reduce, or even prevent, cyber conflict. A recent series of publications started developing the framework of Cyber Peacekeeping (CPK) and its legal requirements. These works assessed the current state of organizations such as ITU IMPACT, NATO CCDCOE and Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and found that they did not satisfy requirements to effectively host CPK activities. An assessment of organizations currently working in the areas related to CPK found that the United Nations (UN) has mandates and organizational structures that appear to somewhat overlap the needs of CPK. However, the UN's current approach to Peacekeeping cannot be directly mapped to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Information and Cyber Security · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
