  The United Nations conducts peace operations around the world, aiming
tomaintain peace and security in conflict torn areas. Whilst early operations
werelargely successful, the changing nature of warfare and conflict has often
left peaceoperations strugglingto adapt. In this article, we make a
contribution towardsefforts to plan for the next evolution in both intra and
inter-state conflict: cyberwarfare. It is now widely accepted that cyber
warfare will be a component offuture conflicts, and much researchhas been
devoted to how governments andmilitaries can prepare for and fight in this new
domain [1]. Despite the vastamount of research relating to cyber warfare, there
has been less discussion onits impact towards successful peace operations. This
is agap in knowledge thatis important to address, since the restoration of
peace following conflict of anykind is of global importance. It is however a
complex topic requiring discussionacross multiple domains. Input from the
technical, political, governmental andsocietal domains are critical in forming
the concept of cyber peacekeeping.Previous work on this topic has sought to
define the concept of cyber peacekeeping[2, 3, 4]. We build upon this work by
exploring the practicalities ofstarting up a cyber peacekeeping component and
setting up a Cyber Buffer Zone (CBZ).
