An Ecosystem of Knowledge

Studies in diplomacy and international relations, pp. 121–145

Abstract

This chapter starts by discussing the attributes of Knowledge Mobilization, whereafter the UN First Committee cyber negotiations are examined to understand the transfer and movement of knowledge within and surrounding them, including its sources and directionality. The chapter underscores that input contributed to these negotiations has been mobilized by way of individual initiative consulting material resources, as well as via an ecosystem of person-to-person interactions among a constellation of actors, spanning the formal and informal spaces related to the negotiations. The movement of knowledge is thus found to have been uni-, bi- and multidirectional in nature. Moreover, the flourishing of this ecosystem has been dependent upon individual as well as collective efforts, and, in some cases, has been both hindered and helped by non-mobilization practices.

Authors 1

1. Lise H. Andersen corresponding Aachen Institute of Security and Global Affairs

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands