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	Podcast:		ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
	Episode:		Stepping into the breach: military responses to global cyber insecurity
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:14:01
	Publish Date:		2021-06-17 08:34:46
	Description:		As the global geo-political landscape continues to experience increasing fragmentation, cyberspace grows in importance as a future conflict domain. Military-strategic understandings of cyber warfare – and its value, risks and rewards – are still at a nascent stage. This creates the potential for miscalculation and mistrust. The adversarial nature of cyberspace and its largely civilian infrastructure increases the likelihood of harm and damage to non-combatants in future cyber conflict. These developments demand renewed international cooperation and commitment to ensuring stability and accountability in cyberspace. In this post, part of the ICRC’s series on avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations, Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling – Cyber Program Lead at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University – considers contemporary and future military conflict in cyberspace and possible societal risks. The world’s strategic paradigm has shifted. Escalating global fragmentation is dismantl
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