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Symposium Agenda
INTRODUCTION // AGENDA // BACKGROUND PAPERS // PARTICIPANTS
On June 11th, 2005 the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons held a symposium on incapacitating biochemical weapons in Geneva, Switzerland.
PLACE
11 June 2005, 9:30 – 18 h (lunch served)
Chateau de Penthes
18, Chemin de l’Imperatrice
Geneva, Switzerland - see reference map.
Morning Session: Military and Scientific Issues (Chair: Dr. Mark Wheelis)
- Introduction (Mark Wheelis, PhD, University of California-Davis)
- Current and prospective military and law enforcement use of chemical agents for incapacitation (Col. George Fenton (ret.), former Director, US Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate)
- The role of new biotechnologies in drug discovery and the development of medical therapies (Alan Goldhammer, PhD, PhRMA)
- Publicly known research, development and use of incapacitating biochemical weapons and delivery systems since 1990 (Edward Hammond, Sunshine Project)
- Scientific and technical outlook for the development of incapacitating biochemicals (Malcolm Dando, PhD, Bradford University)
- Potential long-term physiological consequences of exposure to incapacitating biochemicals (Kathryn Nixdorff, PhD, University of Darmstadt, and Jack Melling, PhD, former Director, CAMR, Porton Down)
Afternoon Session: Legal and Policy Issues (Chair: Dr. Jack Melling)
- Risks and uncertainties in the use of biochemical incapacitating weapons (Robin Coupland, MD, International Committee of the Red Cross)
- Toxic chemicals for law enforcement purposes including domestic riot control purposes under the Chemical Weapons Convention (Ambassador Adolph von Wagner, Germany)
- Biochemicals and the Biological Weapons Convention (Marie Chevrier, PhD, University of Texas-Dallas, and Ambassador James Leonard, US)
- Potential future applications of biochemicals for non-consensual physiological manipulation (Mark Wheelis, PhD)
- The relevance of international humanitarian and human rights law to biochemical weapons (Prof. Francoise Hampson, University of Essex)
- Reinforcing international legal norms: the way forward (Peter Herby, International Committee of the Red Cross)
Sponsored by the Scientists Working Group of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Geneva Forum (UNIDIR, Quaker UN Office, Program for Strategic and International Security Studies of the Graduate Institute of International Studies).