Space Café Radio – at the UN OEWG – with Dr. Jessica West and Victoria Samson

In this Space Café Radio – SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening spoke with  Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, and Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director at Secure World Foundation.

In this episode, Torsten talked with Jessica and Victoria about the third session of the Open-ended working group on reducing space threats through norms, rules, and principles of responsible behaviors, held in early February 2023 in Geneva.

Please find here the links to the mentioned articles, posts, and websites:

• With permission by Breaking Defense and Theresa Hitchens: At UN meeting, space cooperation picks up momentum, but Moscow and Beijing play spoilers
• Jessicas report on arms control and the value of norms: https://www.ploughshares.ca/reports/a-security-regime-for-outer-space-lessons-from-arms-control
• Jessicas previous two OEWG summaries: https://www.ploughshares.ca/reports/the-open-ended-working-group-on-space-threats-recap-of-the-second-meeting-september-2022
• https://www.ploughshares.ca/reports/the-open-ended-working-group-on-space-threats-recap-of-the-first-meeting-may-2022
• Secure World Foundation’s written submission, along with other written submissions and the updated indicative timetable of topics that were discussed: https://meetings.unoda.org/meeting/57866/documents
• Secure World Foundation’s Summit: www.swfsummit.org
• Counter Space Report: www.swfound.org/counterspace

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