Abstract
This chapter discusses how international law applies to cyber-peacekeeping by focusing on the United Nations peacekeeping operations. The chapter first explains which peacekeeping tasks can be ‘cyberized’ and then discusses the technical and legal challenges that arise in view of the peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and use of force in self-defence. The chapter then goes on to examine the regulation of the use of lethal force in cyber-peacekeeping in the course of an armed conflict but also outside the context of an armed conflict. It finally identifies a number of institutional, political and legal challenges facing cyber-peacekeeping and makes recommendations as to how they can be addressed. Its main argument is that cyber-peacekeeping can improve the effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping operations and for this reason its referent institutional, political and legal framework needs to be considered carefully.
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