Open AccessLegal instability in cyberspace and OSCE’s mitigation role
Author(s) -
Adina PONTA
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
juridical tribune
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-0382
pISSN - 2247-7195
DOI - 10.24818/tbj/2021/11/3.01
Subject(s) - cyberspace , operationalization , human rights , mandate , transparency (behavior) , political science , international law , public relations , law , law and economics , engineering ethics , sociology , the internet , engineering , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , world wide web
After the international legal community widely endorsed the application ofinternational law to cyberspace, many open questions remain on the concrete interpretationof existing rights and obligations to the cyber realm. In pursuit of its mandate to promotehuman rights and conflict prevention, the OSCE can play a major role to supportoperationalization of international law and application of existing principles to cyberspace.This paper examines some key steps in the aftermath of the creation of norms of behavior,and transparency and confidence-building measures. After a brief analysis of the normcreation process, this piece identifies several pressing cybersecurity challenges on theinternational landscape, and offers suggestions for consolidating the voluntary non-bindingnorms States agreed upon. Using lessons learned from other domains, the analysis will focuson mechanisms of building further stability and transparency in cyberspace, in particular byreference to the due diligence principle and States’ human rights obligations.