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From: UNOG-UNIDIR <unidir@un.org> Subject: UNIDIR Invitation: Neutrality and Peacebuilding in Cyberspace [ 3 November - Geneva Peace Week ] Date: 27 October 2020 at 10:56:24 CET To: UNOG-UNIDIR <unidir@un.org>

WHAT: The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), in cooperation with the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, is pleased to invite you to a roundtable dialogue exploring the concept of neutrality in cyberspace.

The principle and practice of neutrality in international relations have expanded possibilities for protection but also for managing risks of escalation in the face of geopolitical tension. These contributions and the long history of neutral actors’ engagement in humanitarian action and peacebuilding point to the merits of exploring how values of neutrality can be extended to cyberspace stability and security, which are fundamental to economic prosperity, and social and political participation.

SPEAKERS: Kaja Ciglic – Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft Koichiro Komiyama – Director, Global Coordination Division, JPCERT/CC Sean Cordey – Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

The discussion will be moderated by Giacomo Persi Paoli, Lead, UNIDIR Security and Technology Programme.

WHEN & WHERE: Tuesday, 3 November, 12:00 – 12:50 (CEST), online.

PARTICIPANTS: The event is open to the public.

RSVP: Please RSVP here <https://unidir.org/events/neutrality-and-peacebuilding-cyberspace>. For any questions please contact sectec-unidir@un.org <mailto:sectec-unidir@un.org>.

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

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Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of sospeaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2–7, Aug. 1986]