Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), in collaboration with the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (Paris, France) and the BTWC Implementation Support Unit, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Geneva, Switzerland. Duration: 1 January – 31 December 2019.
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- Project part 1: Organisation of a tabletop exercise for francophone countries in West Africa on triggering BTWC Article VII
- Project part 2: Organisation of a tabletop exercise for key international stakeholders on triggering BTWC Article VII during the BTWC Meeting of Experts.
Duration: May – September 2017
- European Union Council Decision 2016/51/CFSP of 18 January 2016 in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in the framework of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Project implementation: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at Geneva with the BTWC Implementation Support Unit.
- Continuation of project elements under the Council Decision in support of universalisation of the BTWC and assessment of science & technology relevant to the BTWC.
Duration: October – December 2016
- Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), in collaboration with the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (Paris, France).
- Organisation of a exploratory tabletop exercise on triggering BTWC Article VII
- Report of the Tabletop Exercise (TTX) on the Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) [Jean Pascal Zanders, Elisande Nexon and Ralf Trapp] (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris, July 2017).
Estimated Completion: December 2015–March 2017
- Educational module on chemical warfare. Element in an educational project run by the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt on behalf of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium.
- E-learning course: Chemical Weapons.
Estimated completion: September 2016.
- European Union Council Decision 2016/51/CFSP of 18 January 2016 in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in the framework of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Project implementation: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at Geneva with the BTWC Implementation Support Unit.
- Assistance with the startup of projects under the Council Decision and implementation of the project elements in preparation of the 8th BTWC Review Conference (November 2016).
Internal dynamics of a terrorist entity acquiring non-conventional weaponry
Chapter contribution to the book project: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: the role of Nuclear Security, edited by Brecht Volders and Tom Sauer (University of Antwerp, Belgium). Estimated completion: July 2015; estimated publication in Global Security Studies series (Routledge): early 2016.
1915, Innocence Slaughtered
Edited book. Project sponsored by In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres. Estimated publication: December 2015. Chapters discuss the first year of chemical warfare in the 1st World War, which saw the introduction of chlorine (22 April) and phosgene (19 December) as weapons. The volume also discusses the factors that contributed to the introduction of chemical weapons, the international response to the new mode of warfare, and the public debate on the legality and morality of chemical warfare, which only after the November 1918 Armistice became a really divisive social issue in Europe.
Duration: May – September 2017
- European Union Council Decision 2016/51/CFSP of 18 January 2016 in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in the framework of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Project implementation: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at Geneva with the BTWC Implementation Support Unit.
- Continuation of project elements under the Council Decision in support of universalisation of the BTWC and assessment of science & technology relevant to the BTWC.
Duration: October – December 2016
- Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), in collaboration with the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (Paris, France).
- Organisation of a exploratory tabletop exercise on triggering BTWC Article VII
- Report of the Tabletop Exercise (TTX) on the Implementation of Article VII of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) [Jean Pascal Zanders, Elisande Nexon and Ralf Trapp] (Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris, July 2017).
Estimated Completion: December 2015–March 2017
- Educational module on chemical warfare. Element in an educational project run by the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt on behalf of the EU Non-Proliferation Consortium.
- E-learning course: Chemical Weapons.
Estimated completion: September 2016.
- European Union Council Decision 2016/51/CFSP of 18 January 2016 in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in the framework of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Project implementation: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at Geneva with the BTWC Implementation Support Unit.
- Assistance with the startup of projects under the Council Decision and implementation of the project elements in preparation of the 8th BTWC Review Conference (November 2016).
Internal dynamics of a terrorist entity acquiring non-conventional weaponry
Chapter contribution to the book project: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: the role of Nuclear Security, edited by Brecht Volders and Tom Sauer (University of Antwerp, Belgium). Estimated completion: July 2015; estimated publication in Global Security Studies series (Routledge): early 2016.
1915, Innocence Slaughtered
Edited book. Project sponsored by In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres. Estimated publication: December 2015. Chapters discuss the first year of chemical warfare in the 1st World War, which saw the introduction of chlorine (22 April) and phosgene (19 December) as weapons. The volume also discusses the factors that contributed to the introduction of chemical weapons, the international response to the new mode of warfare, and the public debate on the legality and morality of chemical warfare, which only after the November 1918 Armistice became a really divisive social issue in Europe.