Admission requirements:
Honours students of all faculties including Master students.
Description:
The Hague Peace Conference Simulation is a project on diplomatic negotiations within Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The Conference aims to provide training and experience in diplomatic negotiations, debating, public speaking and in-depth knowledge of global challenges currently faced by nations.
This year the topic of the Conference will be cybersecurity. Growing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) creates new vulnerabilities and opportunities for disruptions. Concerns over the risk of cyber attacks on individuals, critical infrastructure, business and other vulnerable targets led to negotiations for creating norms and agreements for responsible behaviour in the cyberspace. However, the negotiations failed to produce an agreement at the United Nations. There is increased reporting that States are developing ICTs as instruments of warfare and intelligence, and for political purposes. The growing sophistication of ICTs and attacks through the cyberspace increases the potential for harmful and disruptive actions. Their effects carry significant risk for public safety, the security of nations and the stability of the globally linked international community as a whole. Confronting global challenges like creating secure and peaceful cyberspace requires successful international cooperation among like-minded partners.
Leiden University’s honours program Tackling Global Challenges offers their students the opportunity to discuss and engage global challenges of the twenty-first Century. Honours students will follow The Hague Peace Conference Simulation as a specialised course on diplomatic negotiations within the honours program.
Course objectives:
Practical skills like :negotiation skills, debating, public speaking
Academic knowledge on cybersecurity, emerging technologies, international security
Meet the experts and actors in the field of cybersecurity, from businesses, academics and institutes in both the private and the public sector.
Timetable:
Tuesday 9 October from 18.00 – 21.00
Thursday 11 October from 15.30 – 20.00
Saturday 13 October from 10.00 – 18.00
Location: Wijnhaven and Schouwburgstraat
Course load and teaching method:
This course is worth 2 EC, which means the total course load equals 56 hours.
Workshop by Paul Meerts: 3 hours
Guest lectures: 4 hours
Literature and preparation for the simulation: 26 hours (literature based on 10 pages an hour).
Simulation: 8 hours
Final essay: 15 hours
Assessment method:
Successful completion of the negotiation simulation and the final paper on a case study of choice of 1000 words.
Reading list:
Carr, Madeline. "Public–private partnerships in national cyber-security strategies." International Affairs 92, no. 1 (2016): 43-62.
Gartzke, Erik. "The myth of cyberwar: Bringing war in cyberspace back down to earth." International Security 38, no. 2 (2013): 41-73.
Lawson, Sean. "Beyond cyber-doom: Assessing the limits of hypothetical scenarios in the framing of cyber-threats." Journal of Information Technology & Politics 10, no. 1 (2013): 86-103.
Lindsay, Jon R. "Stuxnet and the limits of cyber warfare." Security Studies 22, no. 3 (2013): 365- 404.
Meerts, Paul Willem. Diplomatic negotiation: essence and evolution. Chapter 2. Department of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, 2014.
Rid, Thomas, and Peter McBurney. "Cyber-weapons." the RUSI Journal 157, no. 1 (2012): 6-13.
Stevens, Tim, ‘A Cyberwar of Ideas? Deterrence and Norms in Cyberspace’, Contemporary Security Policy 33, no. 1 (2012): 148–70.
Weber, Rolf, ‘Internet of Things–New Security and Privacy Challenges’, Computer Law and Security Review 26, no. 1 (2010): 23–30.
Programme:
The first session is a workshop by Dr. Paul Meerts on diplomatic negotiation techniques.
The second session will consist of guest lectures and a panel discussion with speakers that have different specialisations within the branch of cyber security.
The third session will be the simulation itself in which the participants have to negotiate and come with a resolution or other solutions.
The participants have to hand in an essay based on a case study.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Joris van Bladel (AIES)
Dr. Alexander Klimburg (HCSS)
Wil van Gemert (Vice-President Europol)
Neal Conijn (Deloitte)
Raymond Kleijmeer (De Nederlandsche Bank)
FIOD
Registration
It is not possible to register through uSis for this course. Your registration in uSis will be done by the organizer of this course.