Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, data from government and commercial space assets has helped the general public understand the trajectory of the war in a transformative way. For diplomats and aid workers, the growing availability of data from satellite-based imagers has helped drive diplomatic strategies to support Ukrainian sovereignty, while providing the capability to deliver aid to Ukrainian citizens in need.
To hear more about the role that space assets have played in delivering humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, while applying these space-enabled diplomatic and aid strategies to other ongoing and future global challenges, our Space Diplomacy Lab invited space security and law expert, Professor Saadia Pekkanen, the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, both at the University of Washington.
This event was hosted by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt and Dr. Giovanni Zanalda, Co-chairs of the Space Diplomacy Lab of Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the Space Diplomacy Lab: https://sites.duke.edu/spacediplomacylab/
This event is part of the Space Diplomacy Webinar Series organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program with a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, data from government and commercial space assets has helped the general public understand the trajectory of the war in a transformative way. For diplomats and aid workers, the growing availability of data from satellite-based imagers has helped drive diplomatic strategies to support Ukrainian sovereignty, while providing the capability to deliver aid to Ukrainian citizens in need.
To hear more about the role that space assets have played in delivering humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, while applying these space-enabled diplomatic and aid strategies to other ongoing and future global challenges, our Space Diplomacy Lab invited space security and law expert, Professor Saadia Pekkanen, the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, both at the University of Washington.
This event was hosted by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt and Dr. Giovanni Zanalda, Co-chairs of the Space Diplomacy Lab of Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the Space Diplomacy Lab: https://sites.duke.edu/spacediplomacylab/
This event is part of the Space Diplomacy Webinar Series organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program with a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
