"Space Weapons Ban - How Can It Be Achieved?"
Workshop Program, June 10, 2002
Morning session
Moderated by Regina HAGEN, INESAP
Welcome and workshop introduction
- Jürgen SCHEFFRAN, INESAP, Darmstadt/Berlin
- Götz NEUNECK, VDW, Hamburg
Peaceful Use and Common Security in Outer Space
- Detlev WOLTER, Berlin
Peaceful Use of Outer Space - Obstacles and Challenges
- Wulf VON KRIES, German Space Agency, Köln, Germany
The Link Between Missile Defense and Space Weaponization
- Ivan SAFRANCHUK, Center for Defense Information, Moscow, Russia
Possible Elements of the Future International Legal Instruments on PAROS
- Joint Working Paper of China and Russia, to be introduced at the Conference on Disarmament in June 2002 (presented by FU Zhigang, Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the UN Office at Geneva)
- Commentary (Bernd KUBBIG, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany)
Afternoon session
Moderated by Clifford SINGER, ACDIS
Space Preservation Act of 2002
- Introduced at the US House of Congress in Jan. 2002 (written statement of Dennis KUCINICH, US Congressman, Washington, USA)
World Space Treaty
- Companion to the Space Preservation Act of 2002
(presented by Carol ROSIN, Institute for Cooperation in Space, Ventura, USA)
- Commentary (Ian KENYON, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, Southampton, UK)
Proposed Treaty on the Limitation of the Military Use of Outer Space
- Drafted by German scientists in 1984 (presented by Jürgen SCHEFFRAN, INESAP)
- Commentary (Jürgen ALTMANN, NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative, Bochum /Dortmund, Germany)
PAROS Impasse at Geneva - Is There a Solution?
- Clifford SINGER, ACDIS, University of Maryland, Champaign/Illinois, USA
Wrap-up
Convened by ACDIS (Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign INESAP (International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation) and VDW (Federation of German Scientists/Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler).
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