Resource List

 Speech - 2007

The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The University of Queensland, Australia
September, 2007

June 2010

The Space Security Index is the first and only annual, comprehensive, and integrated assessment of space security.

Space Security 2010 is the seventh annual report on trends and developments related to security and outer space, covering the period January to December 2009.1 It is part of the broader Space Security Index (SSI) project, which aims to improve transparency with respect to space activities and provide a common, comprehensive knowledge base to support the development of national and international policies that contribute to space security.

The definition of space security guiding this report reflects the express intent of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that space should be preserved as a global commons to be used by all for peaceful purposes:

“The secure and sustainable access to, and use of, space and freedom from space-based threats."

This broad definition encompasses the security of space as a particularly unique environment, the security of Earth-originating assets in space, and security from threats originating in space-based assets. The primary consideration in the SSI definition of space security is not the interests of specific national or commercial entities using space, but the security of space as an environment that can be used safely and sustainably by all.

Draft of speech by Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of The City of Hiroshima, delivered at the NGO Session during the NPT Review Conference in May 2010.

Speech by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons
The Wisdom of the Survivor Conference
Center on Terrorism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York
May 4th, 2010

Speech by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons

For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World Conference
Riverside Church, New York City
April 30 - May 1st 2010

Conference Report

United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

March 29-30, 2010

Space Security 2010: From Foundations to Negotiations is the ninth annual conference held by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) on the issue of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space and the prevention of an arms race in outer space. This conference focused on exploring the technological constraints and opportunities for a space security regime, elaborating on the latest developments in efforts by multilateral, governmental, academic and industrial organizations to craft solutions to different pieces of the space security puzzle, and considering what lessons previous arms control and confidence-building negotiations might have for future negotiations about instruments for securing space.

Remarks by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons

Global Zero World Summit
Paris, France
February 2nd – 4th, 2010

Report of the Dialogue on Mobilizing the Will to Intervene

Vancouver, BC

November 27, 2009

The Simons Foundation in partnership with the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue and Canada’s World convened a Dialogue with representatives of the media, business leaders, government representatives, academics and relevant civil society organizations on generating the Will to Intervene to Prevent Mass Atrocities.

Professor Frank Chalk, Director of MIGS and Co-Director of MIGS’s Will to Intervene Project (W2I) led the discussion on the most effective ways to mobilize local support and generate the Will to Intervene to prevent mass atrocities. The Dialogue was chaired by Dr. Mark Winston, Academic Director of SFU’s Centre for Dialogue, and moderated by Ms. Shauna Sylvester, Director of Canada’s World.

The Dialogue was one of three events held during the two-day Vancouver Launch of the W2I Project report, Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities.  The fundamental goal of the report is to identify strategic and practical steps to raise the capacity of government officials, legislators, civil servants, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, journalists, and media owners and managers to build the political will to prevent mass atrocities.

A session for academics and students focusing on the findings and policy proposals of the report was held on Thursday, November 26th at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. A Public Lecture by Professor Frank Chalk highlighting MIGS case studies of Canadian and US policies towards the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the 1999 events in Kosovo was held that evening.

Policy Report of the Will to Intervene Project

Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS)

Concordia University

2009

The Will To Intervene Project (W2I) is a crucial initiative developed jointly by General Roméo Dallaire and Dr. Frank Chalk of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) that is spearheading the fight against genocide by building domestic political will in Canada and the United States to prevent future mass atrocities. W2I's ground-breaking 2009 policy report, Mobilizing The Will To Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities, contains concrete policy recommendations for the governments of Canada and of the United States, as well as recommendations for journalists and civil society groups, which will advance this goal. It details the long term consequences to Canadian and American security, public health and prosperity that result from mass atrocities, which make engaging in the prevention of such atrocities in each county's national interest.

Conference Report

United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

June 15-16, 2009

"Space Security 2009: Moving towards a Safer Space Environment" is the eighth annual conference held by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research on the issues of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space and the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

At this year's conference, presenters and participants addressed five primary topics: architectures for improving space security, ensuring space sustainability through confidence- and security-building measures, elements of treaty-based security, international law and space security, and emerging issues for space sustainability.