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VERIFICATION
ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY
Welcome to VERTIC’s online Verification Organizations Directory. The
directory aims to list all organizations involved in monitoring and
verification activities in the field of arms control and disarmament.
Where possible, each entry includes contact details and a brief description
of its verification-related activities. You can search the directory
in four ways:
1.
by type of organization (see below)
2. by
activity (see below)
3. by
country
4. by
entering text into the free-text search box.
TYPES OF ORGANIZATION
Bilateral organizations which verify or contribute to verifying
compliance with international agreements.
International organizations which verify or contribute to verifying
compliance with international agreements.
National organizations which are contact points for relations
with an international verification organization, national authorities
for implementing a state's obligations under an international agreement,
and/or government agencies and laboratories which conduct research and/or
training in verification and monitoring techniques and technologies.
Non-governmental organizations which conduct research and/or training
in verification and monitoring, or which undertake civil society-based
monitoring of international agreements.
Regional
organizations
which
verify or contribute to verifying compliance with international agreements.
This includes nuclear weapon-free zones.
United Nations organizations which verify or contribute to verifying
compliance with international agreements, or which conduct research
into verification.
University
or research centres
which conduct research into verification and monitoring. These are only
included if they have an identifiable project on verification.
ACTIVITIES
Biological weapons
Chemical weapons
Conventional weapons
Conventional
armed forces
1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
(CFE)
1995 Dayton Agreement on
Conventional Weapons
Landmines
1992 Open Skies Agreement
Small arms and light weapons
Nuclear weapons
Arms control
and disarmament
Bilateral nuclear arms control agreements
Nuclear weapon-free zone (NWFZ)
Nuclear safeguards
Nuclear testing
Verification research
FUNDING
VERTIC is grateful
to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Joseph
Rowntree Charitable Trust for the funding for this directory.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The online version
of the directory has been compiled by VERTIC interns Benjamin Armbruster, Erik Asplund, Kristie Barrow, Jessica McLaughlin,
Andrew Piner and Samir Puri under the supervision of Jane Awford, Information Officer and Networker.
VERTIC also acknowledges the kind assistance of the Organisation for
the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in providing information on
national authorities responsible for CWC compliance.
Database design and
monitoring by Olle Bodelius, Sitescanner.
DISCLAIMER
VERTIC has made every effort to check information contained in the directory.
Because it has relied to a considerable extent on the websites of the
organizations listed, inaccuracies may occur if the information on a
website is not up to date.
CONTACT US
The directory will be updated regularly. To suggest an additional organization
or to correct or update information, please contact Jane Awford, Information Officer and
Networker.
For further information on verification and monitoring terms and definitions:
Coming to Terms with
Security: A Handbook on Verification and Compliance
VERTIC and UNIDIR,
June 2003
A handbook to assist negotiators in devising verification and compliance
systems for arms control and disarmament agreements. The Handbook
includes agreements, terms and in-depth analyses.
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