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The final report of the 7th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) held in December 2011 contained a one-line subparagraph whose ambition came to fruition in Dec...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2020/11/02/increasing-assurance-under-the-btwc-through-biorisk-management-standards/

This year the UN General Assembly (UNGA) celebrates the 75th time in session. However, the worldwide spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) casts dark shadow o...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2020/10/06/biological-weapons-a-surprise-proposal-from-kazakhstan-worth-exploring/

  Book review: Debora MacKenzie, COVID-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One (New York: Hachette Books, 2020), 279p.   The book opens with the quote fro...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2020/08/30/covid-19-a-perfect-storm-foretold/

Dazed. Shocked. Stunned. Does any one of these words even begin to convey my reaction when around noon on 23 April I received the phone call informing me of Julian’s passing, having lost the ba...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2020/05/13/jppr-the-4-letters-that-shaped-my-career/

Today, in the Palais des Nations in Geneva we presented the report on the Tabletop Exercise (TTX) on the Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), whic...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2019/08/07/deciding-on-emergency-assistance-in-case-of-biological-weapons-use/

By Chiara Barbeschi   I am Chiara Barbeschi and study Security Studies (BSc) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Interning at The Trench and representing the non-governmental organisation (...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2019/08/04/blog-1-experiences-of-a-student-at-the-meetings-of-experts-of-the-biological-and-toxin-weapons-convention/

  From 17 until 28 June I ran an Executive Course on Export Control at the M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University in Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana), Kazakhstan. Its goal was twofold. First, it tested in...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2019/07/21/disarmament-education-road-testing-a-masters-course-on-cbrn-dual-use-technology-transfer-controls/

Book review: Brian Rappert and Chandré Gould, The Dis-Eases of Secrecy: Tracing History, Memory & Justice (Jacana Media: Johannesburg, 2017), 261p. It took me almost a year to write this book re...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2018/12/27/impunity-through-knowledge-management-the-legacy-of-south-africas-cbw-programme/

  Origins and negotiation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention A new research report   Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) belongs to the...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2018/08/08/the-meaning-of-emergency-assistance/

More complex than imagined Last November, during the 8th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) in cooperation...

https://armscontrollaw.com/2017/07/10/triggering-article-vii-of-the-btwc/