Cyber Peace

Cyberspace is increasingly vital to the future of humanity and managing it peacefully and sustainably is critical to both security and prosperity in the twenty-first century. These chapters and essays unpack the field of cyber peace by investigating historical and contemporary analogies, in a wide-ranging and accessible Open Access publication.

Part I. Beyond Stability, Toward Cyber Peace: Key Concepts, Visions, and Models of Cyber Peace: 1. Cyber Peace: Is that a thing? Renée Marlin-Bennett; 2. Domestic digital repression and cyber peace Jessica Steinberg, Cyanne E. Loyle, and Federica Carugati; Part II. Modalities: How Might Cyber Peace Be Achieved? What Practices and Processes Might Need to Be Followed in Order to Make it a Reality?: 3. Information sharing as a critical best practice for the sustainability of cyber peace Deborah Housen-Couriel; 4. De-escalation pathways and disruptive technology: cyber operations as off-ramps to war Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen; 5. Cyber peace and intrastate armed conflicts: toward cyber peacebuilding? Jean-Marie Chenou and John K. Bonilla-Aranzales; 6. Artificial intelligence in cyber peace Tabrez Y. Ebrahim; Part III. Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead; 7. Contributing to cyber peace by maximizing the potential for deterrence: criminalization of cyberattacks under the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute Jennifer Trahan; 8. Trust but verify: diverse verifiers are a prerequisite to cyber peace Rob Knake and Adam Shostack; 9. Building cyber peace while preparing for cyber war Frédérick Douzet, Aude Géry, and François Delerue; Part IV. Reflections and Research Notes: 10. Imagining cyber peace: an interview with a cyber peace pioneer Camille François and Christopher Ankersen; 11. Overcoming barriers to empirical cyber research Anne E. Boustead and Scott J. Shackelford; 12. Bits and 'peaces': solving the jigsaw to secure cyberspace Stéphane Duguin, Rebekah Lewis, Francesca Bosco, and Juliana Crema; 13. Cyber hygiene can support cyber peace Megan Stifel, Kayle Giroud and Ryan Walsh; 14. Crowdsourcing cyber peace and cybersecurity Vineet Kumar; 15. Advanced persistent threat groups increasingly destabilize peace and security in cyberspace Anne-Marie Buzatu.