Space and Cyber Security Highlights

The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) annual Outer Space Security Conference Series provides stakeholders with an overview of current space security initiatives, an update on the implementation and adherence to existing instruments and a view of the way ahead. Click here to view the report of "Space Security 2017—Celebrating the Outer Space Treaty: 50 Years of Space Governance and Stability."

Public event presented by the Space Security Index on the future of outer space governance as the Outer Space Treaty faces the next generation of challenges. 5:30 - 7:00pm on Wednesday, May 3rd in Montreal.

Visit The Ploughshares Monitor for this interview with Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow in Space Security at The Simons Foundation, on the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty and current challenges for outer space security.

See Paul Meyer's contribution to "Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security into the Toolbox of 21st Century Leaders," a joint report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at SOAS University of London.

See the following for the text of Paul Meyer's presentation at the Space Security Index side event, "Tracking Space Security: Are We Ready to Go Live?", held during the United Nations General Assembly First Committee in New York.

In 2002, The Simons Foundation and Project Ploughshares initiated, in partnership with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (now Global Affairs Canada), the first of what has become the Outer Space Security Conference Series organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Simons Foundation continues to sponsor these conferences which are held to inform the UN Conference on Disarmament on issues of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space and the prevention of an arms race in outer space, and to provide stakeholders with an overview of current space security initiatives, an update on the implementation and adherence to existing instruments, and a view of the way ahead.

Commentary by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow in Space Security, The Simons Foundation, Published by The Hill Times, June 13, 2016