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Applying the right lessons from the negotiation and implementation of the UNTOC and the UNCAC to the implementation of the newly agreed UN ‘cybercrime’ treaty
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Publication date: 2024
Publication: Journal of Cyber Policy (vol. 9, Issue 2)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Author: Ian Tennant & Ana Paula Oliveira
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The paper explores the different perspectives from the history of UNTOC’s negotiation and implementation that need to be considered as the convention is sent for formal adoption. First, it undertakes a focused literature review on the UNTOC and UNCAC and its travaux preparatoires of such provisions. The paper explains the background of the relevant negotiation decisions and the effects that it had on the convention’s scope and implementation. It explores the benefits and shortcomings of the related approaches taken in the cybercrime treaty.
The paper concludes with lessons learned from the implementation of UNTOC and UNCAC.
