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Project Ploughshares
57 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON
23-25 May 2012
Roundtable Program
23 May 2012
17:00 Dinner: Solé Restaurant. 83 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON
19:00 Keynote address by Yousaf Butt: “Indefensible Missile Defense”
Location: CIGI Campus Auditorium. 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON
24 May 2012
08:45 Opening remarks
Location: Seagram Room. 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON
09:00 Session 1: Prospects for a robust normative framework for space activities
Chair: Walter Dorn – Canadian Forces College
Speakers:
- Joanne Gabrynowicz – University of Mississippi
Topic: Evolution of the international normative regime for outer space activities
- Li Juqian – China University of Political Science and Law
Topic: Space Sustainability and the 2012 Space Assets Protocol
- Paul Meyer – The Simons Foundation
Topic: Securing the Cosmos: International Proposals for Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space
- Michael Spies – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Topic: UN Group of Governmental Experts on Space
10:45 Break
11:15 Session 2: One domain, multiple perspectives
Chair: Cesar Jaramillo – Project Ploughshares
Speakers:
- Audrey Schaffer – U.S. Department of Defense
Topic: U.S. National Security Space Strategy
- Julie Crôteau – Foreign Affairs Canada
Topic: Canada’s positions on space sustainability
- Jana Robinson – European Space Policy Institute
Topic: Europe’s emerging policy toward space security
- Ajey Lele – Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (India)
Topic: India’s Space Program
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 3: Space security implications of missile defense
Chair: Phyllis Creighton – Science for Peace
Speakers:
- Bruce Gagnon – Global Network against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Topic: Links between missile defense and space security
- Yousaf Butt – Federation of American Scientists
Topic: ASAT capabilities of missile defense systems
15:15 Break
15:45 Session 4: Growing diversity of actors in space and environmental threats
Chair: Adele Buckley – Canadian Pugwash Group
Speakers:
- Ram Jakhu – McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law
Topic: Space debris remediation
- Aarti Holla – European Satellite Operators Association
Topic: An industry perspective: challenges and opportunities facing commercial satellite operators
17:00 Day 1 Closing
25 May 2012
09:00 Session 5: The Way Forward
Chair: John Siebert – Project Ploughshares
Speakers:
- Laura Grego – Union of Concerned Scientists
Topic: Space Security Road Ahead for the United States: Next Steps and Roadblocks
- Cesar Jaramillo – Project Ploughshares
Topic: Questions about self-defense provisions in space security arrangements
- Ray Acheson – Reaching Critical Will
Topic: The role of civil society in the promotion of space sustainability
10:45 Break
11:15 Session 7: Consideration of a draft “Waterloo Declaration on Space Sustainability” containing recommendations arising from the conference.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 7 (continued)
14:30 Closing