Proposed package of reforms

Regulation of Force and CoerCion Transnational and Planetary Threats Regional Flashpoints and Ordering
Variable 1
UN Security Council Reform
Variable 5
Climate, Peace, and Security
Variable 7
Great Power Flashpoints and Regional Ordering
Variable 2
Use of Force
Variable 6
Artificial Intelligence and Cyber
Variable 3
Preventing Nuclear War
Variable 4
Economic Coercion and International Security
Proposed package of reforms

Limiting the scourge of war

Jus in Bello

Codify universal and public standards for incidental harm assessment, including strengthening the principle of proportionality

Clarify that IHL applies to cyber operations and that protections afforded to civilian objects apply to digital civilian objects

Develop new legally binding rules on autonomous weapons systems

Set up a dedicated forum for ongoing dialogue on the intersection between IHL and artificial intelligence

Strengthen Common Article 1 to the four Geneva Conventions by not furnishing military assistance to states engaged in wide-scale violations of IHL, among other measures

Jus ad Bellum

Clarify in international law when and how a cyber operation would amount to a use of force or armed attack

Pass a UNSC resolution prohibiting states from invoking self-defense against a non-state actor operating in another state without the consent of either the second state or the Security Council, unless it is being explicitly hosted by the second state’s government

Jus ad Bellum

Clarify in international law when and how a cyber operation would amount to a use of force or armed attack

Pass a UNSC resolution prohibiting states from invoking self-defense against a non-state actor operating in another state without the consent of either the second state or the Security Council, unless it is being explicitly hosted by the second state’s government

Jus in Bello

Codify universal and public standards for incidental harm assessment, including strengthening the principle of proportionality

Clarify that IHL applies to cyber operations and that protections afforded to civilian objects apply to digital civilian objects

Develop new legally binding rules on autonomous weapons systems

Set up a dedicated forum for ongoing dialogue on the intersection between IHL and artificial intelligence

Strengthen Common Article 1 to the four Geneva Conventions by not furnishing military assistance to states engaged in wide-scale violations of IHL, among other measures

Jus ad Bellum

Clarify in international law when and how a cyber operation would amount to a use of force or armed attack

Pass a UNSC resolution prohibiting states from invoking self-defense against a non-state actor operating in another state without the consent of either the second state or the Security Council, unless it is being explicitly hosted by the second state’s government