The training contributes to the facilitation of diplomatic outreach and national coalition-building on cyber diplomacy issues to support the target country’s diplomatic objectives. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Build the participants’ knowledge on how digital technologies impact geopolitics and social and economic development. 

• Understand cybersecurity issues on the diplomatic agenda and their impact on geopolitics. 

• Build cyberdiplomacy capacity at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs by training diplomats across different focus areas on cyber issues.

• Identify multilateral and multistakeholder political processes that shape global and regional cybersecurity agendas. 

• Offer the participants means on how to identify steps to prepare an institution to take part in cyberdiplomacy discussions. 

• Provide a coherent approach on how to take an active role in international processes around cyberdiplomacy. 

• Facilitate and support dialogue between national cybersecurity experts and the diplomatic community to ensure consistency in national cybersecurity and diplomatic objectives. 

Topics to be covered: 

• Introduction to Cybersecurity – threats and threat actor. 

• Overview of the target country’s cybersecurity organisation, strategic and policy documents, regulations, incident response and emergency management processes; the importance of coordination and collaboration between diplomats and cybersecurity operational community. 

• Agenda for Cyber Diplomacy (international state of play, actors). 

• Attribution, deterrence and response options. 

• International law and ICTs. 

• Norms, rules and principles of responsible state behaviour. 

• Confidence building measures. 

• International cooperation and assistance 

• The need and good practices of establishing a cyberdiplomacy unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Event is invite-only.