Mars Treatymaking Workshop Results and Insights from ISU SSP15
- Paper number
IAC-15,E1,4,2,x30265
- Author
Ms. Jessica Reinert, International Space University (ISU), United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Marius Berge Eide, International Space University (ISU), Norway
- Coauthor
Mr. Rémi Gourdon, International Space University (ISU), France
- Coauthor
Dr. Valentina Boccia, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Christopher Johnson, Secure World Foundation, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Michael Davis, Space Industry Association of Australia, Australia
- Year
2015
- Abstract
In light of the expanding robotic and impending crewed exploration and settlement of Mars, participants at the International Space University’s 2015 Space Studies Program (SSP) held in Athens, Ohio, will act as governmental delegations at the United Nations to create a draft text representing a new international treaty for Mars. This is the third year the ISU SSP has conducted this Mars Treatymaking Workshop, and is done in conjunction with the SSP’s Space Policy, Economics, and Law department. Some nations have ambitious plans for Mars colonization, while others intend to commercially mine the red planet’s rich mineral resources. The majority of delegations, however, hold fast the provisions of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, whose Article II mandates that {\it “outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”} Can these tensions be resolved in a single treaty for Mars? This paper will present the findings of the ISU SSP participants, including their impressions and lessons learned from the simulation of an international intergovernmental negotiation session, the drafting, adoption, and related treatymaking experience, and the substantive legal innovations for a new legal regime for Mars.- Abstract document
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