Conference Presentations and Reports

• BWPP seminar at the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. Presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders "Tackling the Threat of Deliberate Disease: Is There Anything We can Do?"
• BWPP seminars in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, February 2005
  • "State of the International Norm Against the Weaponization of Disease," presentation by Angela Woodward.
  • "The BWPP: A Civil Society Response to the Need to Act Against the Development, Production and Use of Biological Weapons," presentation by Chandré Gould.
• BWPP lunch seminar ‘Civil Society Thoughts on Dealing with Natural and Deliberate Outbreaks of Disease’, held during the Expert Meeting under the auspices of the BTWC, Geneva, 20 July 2004
  • "A Holistic Vision to Prevent and Counter the Effects of Disease Outbreaks", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders.
  • "Civil Society Contribution to Strengthening the Norm against Biological Weapons: The BWPP One Year On", presentation by Chandré Gould.
  • "BW Investigations by the United Nations", presentation by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg.

• "The BWPP: A Civil Society Response to the Need to Act Against the Development, Production and Use of Biological Weapons", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders, 2nd Workshop of the BWPP Pilot Project on Networking Strategies, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 July 2004.
• "Bioterrorism - The South African Connection", presentation by Chandré Gould and Peter Folb to the South African Pathology Congress, Cape Town, 6 July 2004.
• "Biotechnology Transfersfor Peaceful Purposes", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders to the UN Secretary’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 1 July 2004.
• "Containing a Shadowy Threat: Reinforcing the Norms against Biological Weapons", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the Conference "Towards a World Without Violence', Barcelona, Spain, 25 June 2004.
• "Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Have Terrorists Increased Their Capability?", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the Seminar ‘Recognising and Responding to the Terrorist Threat in the 21st Century’, St Andrews College, Edinburgh, 21-23 June 2004.
• BWPP regional seminar on networking, Johannesburg (South Africa), 7 April 2004
  • "On the need for civil society monitoring of norms against biological weapons in southern Africa", presentation by Chandré Gould.
  • "Preserving biology for a healthy future", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders
• "International Cooperation in Addressing the Risks Related to BW", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the Conference "Future Challenges for Non Non-Proliferation Instruments", NATO Defence College, Rome, 16-17 March 2004.
• "Research Policies, BW Development & Disarmament", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the conference "Ethical implications of Scientific Research on Bioweapons and Prevention of Bioterrorism", European Commission, DG Research, Brussels, 4 February 2004
• "Civil Society, CBMs and Transparency", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the Seminar on CBMs organized by Canada, Meeting of the States Parties to the BTWC, Geneva, 12 November 2003.
• Statement by the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP) to the Meeting of the States Parties to the BTWC", Geneva, 12 November 2003.
• "Operationalizing the General Purpose Criterion", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders at the 20th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions, Geneva, 8-9 November 2003.
• "Iraq's reintegration into the international communicty: A role for the CWC?", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders on 23 October at the OPCW, The Hague[463 Kb pdf file]. This presentation accompanied the launch of the SIPRI Policy Paper no. 5: 'Non-compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention: Lessons from and for Iraq'.
• "The Risks posed by BW Proliferation", presentation by Jean Pascal Zanders on 21 October at the Smallpox conference, Geneva [469 Kb pdf file]
• Statement by the BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP) to the Expert Meeting under the auspices of the BTWC on 19 August 2003.
• BWPP lunch seminar during the Expert Meeting under the auspices of the BTWC, Geneva, 20 August 2003.
  • "Time to lay down the law: the status of national laws to enforce the BWC", presentation by Angela Woodward (VERTIC).
  • "European Union Regulations Regarding the Mid-Range Threat Agents", presentation by Drs. Jill S. Dekker-Bellamy (European Group for Non-Proliferation Studies)
  • "Some Elements in Pathogen Security", Presentation notes by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg (Federation of American Scientists)
• "Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW): A New Approach for a New Era", Seminar organized by the Institute Institute for Security Studies and the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Pretoria (South Africa), 26 June 2003
• Presentation by Angela Woodward, Legal Researcher, Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC), at the launch of the BWPP, Monday 11 November 2002