PDFS 2025: Paris Defence and Strategy Forum 2025 Military School / Ecole Militaire Paris, France, March 12, 2025

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdsf2025
Submission deadline	January 10, 2025

 

Paris Defence and Strategy Forum

Second Edition

The Future of War:  Cyber Attacks, New Conflicts, and the Human Frontier

 

Important Dates and Call For Papers                                                                                                                                                                        Conference Location: École Militaire, Paris, France                                                                                                                                                        Conference Dates: March 12, 2025                                                                                                                                                                              Submission Deadline: December 27th                                                                                                                                                                          Acceptance Notification: January 10th

Conference Description

An escalation of conflicts affecting societies and countries all around the world, including active conflicts in the Middle East, rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and a prolonged invasion of Ukraine, has raised concerns about protecting democracy in many countries. These conflicts extend beyond traditional battlefields to new fronts in economics, research and development, and cyberspace, and even to human cognition. As overt and covert warfare increasingly intertwines in the digital and physical worlds, the corresponding rise of autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning demands that our understanding of agency, responsibility, and cybersecurity evolve.     

We are witnessing the emergence of new and unforeseen threats to the political and economic order, such as the spread of cybersecurity threats by criminals across nation-state borders, the rise of machines as semi-autonomous actors, and new vulnerabilities to data and data security from targeted attacks by governmental and non-governmental actors. These threats have life-or-death implications for soldiers serving on the front lines of armed conflict, for the economic and social well-being of civilians on the home front, and for long-standing policies designed to maintain the peace and stability of the global world order.

Technological advances have both exacerbated and helped to counter these new threats. On the one hand, technological advances have fueled the rise of new actors in modern warfare, such as grassroots movements, terrorist groups,  state-sponsored vigilantes, state-sponsored cyber criminals groups, or Private Military Company used as proxies. On the other hand, it has also created opportunities to counter threats, such as OSINT, drone development, the digitization of the battlefield, the development and management of innovation, new training methods & opportunities, and collaboration between the private sector, industry, and militaries. This paradox that technology and societal evolutions pose to the stability of governments, economies, and societies requires us to rethink how we approach the development and study of security policy, identify threats, and seize opportunities as scholars, policymakers, and security professionals.

As states and non-state actors alike use digital technologies to wage war, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the implications of these actions - for information systems, the multiplication of battlefields, human involvement, and ethical considerations have become profound and complex. How can we prepare for new conflicts? How to strengthen and facilitate cooperation and joint innovation between the private sector and the military? How do we adapt command and control, as well as training and knowledge management systems? How can conflicts be better anticipated and resolved? What are the implications for public cognition and decision-making, including that of leaders? What new forms of governance and international cooperation are needed to deal with these threats? How can human values be preserved on an increasingly automated and digitalized battlefield?

 As part of the Paris Strategy and Defense Forum https://www.defense.gouv.fr/academ/evenements/paris-defence-and-strategy-forum, this conference provides a unique opportunity for academics to engage directly with military decision-makers, defense industry experts, policy-makers, and researchers.  This conference will bring together interdisciplinary perspectives from academics, especially but not exclusively information systems scholars, military decision makers, policymakers, cybersecurity experts, and ethicists, to address the challenges and opportunities presented by cyber warfare.

 We invite submissions that focus on "The Future of War: Cyber Attacks, New Conflicts, and the Human Frontier," a critical examination of how evolving cyber warfare tactics are reshaping the nature of conflict and challenging the boundaries of human involvement and ethical considerations. This track welcomes early-stage and advanced-stage studies that use empirical, design, and conceptual/theoretical approaches to develop an understanding of this critical topic. We invite research from all fields, including information systems, computer science, law, management, strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, organizational behavior, international business, and supply chain management.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Completed Research Papers (RP) - Max 40,000 charactersWork in Progress Paper (WP) – 6,000 to 15,000 characters

Extended Abstract Paper (EP) – 3,000 to 6,000 characters

PDSF does not claim copyright for the papers. Authors are permitted to simultaneously submit their work elsewhere.

The word count includes a max. 200-word abstract (for RP and WP), all figures and tables (for RP, WP, EP). References are generally excluded from the word count.

For any questions regarding the conference, please contact: pdsf2025@gmail.com

List of Topics

• Advances in Cybersecurity Methods, Theories, and Philosophy
• AI in Society and Defence
• Security and Blockchain, DLT, and Fintech
• Cognitive war 
• Cybersecurity 
• Data Analytics for Defence and Security Challenges
• Decision-making and Deterrence
• Security Threats and Opportunities posed by Digital Innovation & Transformation
• Digital Learning and Defense Curricula
• Digital Technologies and the Future of Defense, Security, and Strategy
• Governance and Digital Strategy
• Identifying Emerging Security threats
• Information Systems in Healthcare
• IoT, Services, Defense, and Government
• IS and Human Factors in Conflictuality or Crisis
• IS Design, Development and Defence and Security Project Management
• IS in Coordination, planification, and operational deployment as it pertains to security
• Threats posed by IT Implementation and Adoption
• Military impact of IS
• Organizing Defence, Security and Military Strategy Processes in the Digital Age
• Threats posed by relying on platforms and Crowds
• Protecting traditional and new vulnerable areas: Understanding novel theaters of war:
• Security impact of IS
• Technological drivers of risk
• General Information Systems topics of interest, but are not limited to, include: 
• Digital Innovation and Transformation 
• Human Technology Interaction
• Forward-Looking Literature Reviews on Information Systems Research
• User Behaviors, User Engagement, and Consequences
• Societal Impact of IS
• Social Media and Digital Collaboration
• And Practitioner-Oriented Research related to these topics

 

General Submission Information                                                                                                                                                                         

All submissions must be submitted through the Easy chair platform. The submission system opens on October 20th, 2024.                                                    All submissions should be submitted as a PDF file.                                                                                                                                                      Submission may be done in French and/or in English                                                                                                                                                  Submissions that violate any of the above-listed guidelines will be removed from the review process.                                                                       

Platform for submission : Easychair

Submission Types :                                                                                                                                                                          Completed Research Papers (RP) - Max 40,000 characters                                                                                                                                               Work in Progress Paper (WP) – 6,000 to 15,000 characters                                                                                                                                           Extended Abstract Paper (EP) – 3,000 to 6,000 characters

PDSF does not claim copyright for the papers. Authors are permitted to simultaneously submit their work elsewhere.

The word count includes a max. 200-word abstract (for RP and WP), all figures and tables (for RP, WP, EP). References are generally excluded from the word count.

For any questions regarding the conference, please contact: pdsf2025@gmail.com

Conference Committee Members (to be confirmed)

• Jason B Thatcher -  Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder
• Marten Risius - University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm
• Christine Dugoin-Clément- IAE de Paris
• Rui Chen - Iowa State University
• John D'Arcy - University of Delaware
• Dan Pienta - University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Sebastian Schuetz - Florida International University
• Kevin M. Blasiak – TU Wien
• Heng Xu - University of Florida
• Eric lamarque - IAE de Paris
• Jean-Loup Richet - IAE de Paris
• Rémy Février - CNAM de Paris
• Thomas Fressin - CRGN
• Samuel Fosso-Wamba - MBS
• Anuragini Shirishu - MBTS
• David Colon - Sciences Po Paris

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to pdsf2025@gmail.com