Collaborative Research: Developing a Normative Framework for Cyber Warfare

项目概述PI建议为网络战政策制定一个规范性框架。他们计划对网络战实践进行调查，并评估当前网络战在多大程度上符合海牙和日内瓦公约的基本战争伦理原则，包括歧视、归因、比例和欺骗。为此，他们正在与新兴技术、军事行动和国家安全联盟（CETMONS）合作。美国显然担心网络攻击;其他国家可能会对军事能力造成严重损害，并打击实体目标和基础设施，具有更大的匿名性，不会使其士兵处于危险之中。为了应对这些前景，美国正在制定一项深思熟虑的计划，以提高网络空间的安全性。然而，网络战也对作为武装冲突国际法基础的正义战争理论提出了巨大挑战。该项目通过调查战争基本原则的紧张关系，帮助确定网络战的允许性和政策，满足了一个重要需求。它将提供一套简明的规范性原则，这些原则也可用于保护网络空间，因为网络空间对现代生活越来越重要。 该项目的成果将包括一份关于网络战伦理的综合报告、一门大学伦理课程以及一本编辑过的卷本，该卷本将作为这门课程的教材。这份报告将以清晰的语言为决策者提供一个连贯的网络战争伦理的具体选择。PI计划通过公共研讨会征求意见和传播他们的研究，一个在项目开始时，另一个在项目结束时，以及整个会议和课堂谈话。

Project Overview The PIs propose to develop a normative framework for policies of cyber warfare. They plan to conduct an investigation into cyber warfare practices and to evaluate the extent to which current cyber warfare conforms to basic war ethics principles underlying the Hague and Geneva conventions including discrimination, attribution, proportionality, and deception. For these purposes, they are partnering with the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security (CETMONS). Intellectual Merit The US is clearly worried about cyber attacks; other nations could inflict serious damage to military capabilities, as well as strike physical targets and infrastructure, with more anonymity and without placing their soldiers at risk. In response to these prospects, the US is developing a thoughtful plan to operate with greater safety and security in cyberspace. However, cyber warfare also poses great challenges to just war theory, the basis for international laws of armed conflict. This project fills an important need by investigating tensions with the basic principles of war, helping to determine the permissibility and policies of cyber warfare. It will provide a concise set of normative principles that could also serve to safeguard cyberspace, which is increasingly essential to modern life. Broader Impact The results of this project will include a comprehensive report on cyber warfare ethics, a university-level ethics course, and an edited volume that would serve as a text for such a course. This report will identify specific options for a coherent cyber war ethics in clear language useful for policymakers. The PIs plan to solicit input and disseminate their research through public workshops, one at the beginning and another at the end of the project, as well as conference and classroom talks throughout.