Fireside Chat with Vladimir Radunović

Director, E-diplomacy and Cybersecurity Programmes, DiploFoundation Topic: Peacekeeping and Mediation in the Digital Age

Interviewer: Milos Strugar

Vladimir Radunović is a director of e-diplomacy and cybersecurity programmes at DiploFoundation. He is a lecturer in cybersecurity policy, Internet governance, and e-diplomacy at postgraduate and professional courses. Vladimir also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) and as an expert with the Geneva Internet Platform, and served as a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2012-2014. He has been a lecturer, speaker and resource person in number of educational and training programmes and events worldwide, including within the WSIS and IGF processes. His professional and research focus is on Internet governance, broadband policy and net neutrality, cybersecurity and cyber-diplomacy, e-diplomacy, and capacity development. He holds an MSc in electrical engineering and a Master degree in contemporary diplomacy, and has undertaken a PhD programme in cybersecurity. He was born and lives in Serbia.

Mr. Radunovic recently gave an interview for Conflux Center. This is the link.

Digital technologies have penetrated every single aspect of our lives. They are both ‘boon and a bane’: bringing new opportunities, as well as challenges. Mr. Radunovic will address the impact of digital technologies on peacekeeping and mediation. Abundance of information is a mouse-click away; algorithms quickly make sense of all these ‘big data’; numerous platforms for communication and collaboration have removed ‘spacetime’ limitations – even for negotiations; virtual and augmented reality can enhance a practicing environment… Risks of leakage of sensitive information – all being 0s and 1s now – have increased manifold, however; cyber- intrusions and subversions (mainly under the threshold of armed attack) across the globe are a game-changer for maintaining peace; cryptocurrencies, 3D printing and emerging technologies can empower everyone equally: peacekeepers, but also governments, non-state actors and terrorist groups. Looking at technology through the lenses of peacekeeping (or vice-versa) is becoming a high-priority task.

The participants of the Gender Mainstreaming in Peace Operations and Gender Mainstreaming in Mediation course organized by Conflux Center will be attending the Fireside Chat, among others.