https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57123-2_10
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Abstract:
Cyberspace is emerging as one of the most important conflict arenas in the twenty-first century, all the more so as the line between cyberconflict and conventional kinetic conflict is gradually erased. This chapter argues that the traditional “rights” framework is not adequate to the task of both theorizing cybersecurity and cyberpeace and constructing effective institutional systems for their maintenance. What is recommended, instead, are theoretical and institution-building approaches based upon the “civic virtues” framework. Foremost among the arguments for employing the “civic virtues” framework is that it is far better adapted to the complex and constantly changing community structure within cyberspace, wherein the practices conducive to the achievement of community-specific goods cannot be adequately facilitated and protected by means of a general and static specification of rights. The chapter concludes with consideration of specific civic virtues pertinent to life in the cyberworld, prominent among them being comity and peaceableness.