Humanization of Electronic Warfare

Abstract

     Humanization of electronic warfare is a modern term, such as the modernity of qualitative transition created by electronic development and the extent it reached in affecting human life in peace as well as in war. The objectives of the research meet in the question of theoretical and practical treatment to frame this modern term in the field of international humanitarian law, then in activating the rules of international humanitarian law and human rights to include the protection for Man, during the electronic conflict, showing the concept of electronic war, and the extent of the sufficiency of the rules of international law to include this type of war.

According to the subject matter of the study, the research moves between the descriptive approach in presenting the current data of the content, the analytical approach in deconstructing the presented theoretical perspectives, and the critical approach in discussion and conclusion.

     The research  has concluded that the disagreement over the applicability of international humanitarian law on electronic disputes is still in the beginning and needs more enrichment to clarify the subject matter and that the absence of the reference in the international humanitarian law to the direct targeting of persons and civilian objects and the operations in the Cyberspace, does not mean that the rules of the international humanitarian law do not cover the methods and  techniques of electronic warfare.

     The inclusiveness feature of the international humanitarian law makes it almost capable to include and understand most of the phenomena of electronic warfare and its consequences.

     The research recommends the necessity of analyzing various elements and conditions to determine the possibility of applying the current international law on the electronic disputes, for considering application problems can be by passed through concluding an international agreement related to electronic warfare.

     The need for the collaboration of regional and international efforts in order to set out an international organization binding for the countries that regulate international armed disputes in which electronic weapons are used, and it prevents cyber weapons contrary to the principles of international humanitarian law.

     The research recommends paying attention to the conditions set by the Tallinn Guide, which states “that the dispute parties are committed to consider the effects of cyber weapons on both the military and civilian personnel.