The future of cyberspace – a domain for conflict or collaboration?

Increased reliance on digital technology has had a tremendous transformative effect. While there are clear advances with regard to digital collaboration and exchange, Cyberspace has quietly emerged as a distinct “fifth domain” of conflict over the last 20 years – affecting developed and developing, conflict-ridden and peaceful societies alike.

Rules of engagement are urgently needed but difficult to agree on – not least because the transnational nature of cyber threats is at odds with traditional state-to-state mechanisms of negotiation and decision-making. Recent attacks have led to some momentum in this process, but to be effective and sustainable international governance architecture needs to be revamped to include a wider spectrum of stakeholders in new systems and structures.

Kaja Ciglic and John Hering from the Digital Diplomacy Team at Microsoft explore the question of whether cyberspace will be a space of conflict or collaboration in the future.

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