Publications

BioWeapons Monitor

The BioWeapons Monitor is a civil society initiative to track compliance of governments and other entities with the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and other international treaties that codify the norm against biological weapons, relevant scientific and technological developments, and measures undertaken by governments and relevant organizations to increase openness and transparency.

It is an online searchable database with open-source information on topics such as:

• international accords controlling biological weapons,
• compliance with the prohibitions contained in the BTWC and the 1925 Geneva Protocol,
• compliance with obligations to increase openness such as confidence-building measures under the BTWC,
• relevant developments in specific regions or countries,
• policies by governments and other entities to reinforce the norm against the weaponization of disease,
• scientific and technological developments related to the threat of biological weapons,
• openness and transparency in dual-use capabilities, and
• initiatives by non-governmental organisations to strengthen the norm against biological weapons.

BioWeapons Report

• BioWeapons Report 2004

Occasional Papers

• OP no. 1: J. Woodall and R. Aldis, Gaps in Global Surveillance (December 2003)
• OP no. 2: E. Geissler, N. A. Sims and J. Borrie, 30 Years of the BTWC: Looking Back, Looking Forward (June 2005)

Issue Papers

The issue papers will offer a brief background to a particular topical subject.

Event Reports

• Seminar Report #1: The New Process: First Impressions and the Way Ahead (25 September 2003)
• Seminar Report #2: International Networking to Prevent the Misuse of Biology for Hostile Purposes (7 April 2004)
• Seminar Report #3: International Networking to Prevent the Misuse of Biology for Hostile Purposes—Part 2 (14 July 2004)
• Event Report #4: The BTWC New Process: Prospects for 2006 and Beyond (23 September 2004) [forthcoming]

• Event Report #5: International Networking to Prevent the Misuse of Biology for Hostile Purposes—Part 3 (12 October 2004)

• Event Report #6: Meeting of the States Parties to the BTWC (5-10 December 2004) [forthcoming]
• Event Report #7: Catalyzing Change: Preventing the Misuse of Biology for Hostile Purposes (February 2005)

Articles

• Contributions by BWPP staff and Network member organisations

Conferences

• Presentations and reports by the BWPP staff

BWPP Network member organizations

• BW-relevant publications by BWPP Network member organizations