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20 Sep
2022

Regional Hubs for Research and Capacity-Building on Nuclear Disarmament Verification

by Noel Stott || Nuclear Disarmament Verification, Publications

From 2018-2021, VERTIC’s Verification and Monitoring programme, conducted a multi-country project focused on exploring and developing capacity building in nuclear disarmament verification. Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project sought to leverage the nuclear expertise and experience in non-nuclear-armed states with unique histories—Argentina, Brazil, Kazakhstan and South Africa, and their regions, to […]

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25 Nov
2021

VERTIC hosts Trilateral Conference with African, Central Asian and Latin American partners to establish Nuclear Disarmament Verification Hubs

by Noel Stott || News, Nuclear Disarmament Verification || Tags:

On 17 and 18 November 2021, VERTIC hosted a Trilateral Conference bringing together its regional in-country partners to finalise plans to establish Nuclear Disarmament Verification (NDV) Hubs in Africa, Central Asia and Latin America. The conference was the culmination of a three-year process consisting of in-depth research and a series of regional consultative workshops.

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20 Sep
2021

African Consultative Meeting: building an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification hub

by Noel Stott || News || Tags:

On 16 and 17 September 2021, the Radiation and Health Physics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand and VERTIC hosted another African regional workshop to further discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification hub. The workshop was the sixth of a series of regional workshops. Three commissioned papers were presented on: African networks available […]

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06 Sep
2021

VERTIC and the University of the Witwatersrand host the fifth workshop to discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification research and innovation hub

by Noel Stott || News || Tags: ,

On 06 September 2021, the Radiation and Health Physics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand and VERTIC) hosted another online African regional workshop to further discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification hub.

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11 Aug
2021

VERTIC and the University of the Witwatersrand host the fourth workshop to discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification research and innovation hub

by Noel Stott || News || Tags: ,

On 11 August 2021, the Radiation and Health Physics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand and VERTIC hosted the fourth African regional workshop to further discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification hub. The purpose of the meeting was also to achieve a deeper African understanding of the challenges posed by the lack of […]

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23 Feb
2021

VERTIC and the Radiation and Health Physics Unit host second African workshop on building capacity for nuclear disarmament verification

by Noel Stott || Blog, News, Nuclear Disarmament Verification

On 12 February 2021, the Radiation and Health Physics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) hosted an online African regional workshop to continue to discuss the establishment of an African Nuclear Disarmament Verification innovation hub.

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16 Oct
2019

VERTIC hosts seminar on ‘scientific and technological capacity for disarmament and non-proliferation’ in New York

by Noel Stott || Blog, News, Nuclear Disarmament Verification || Tags:

On 16 October, VERTIC, together with United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), hosted a seminar on ‘Scientific and technological capacity for disarmament and non-proliferation’. The seminar took place in New York at the United Nations Headquarters during the second week of the United Nations General Assembly’s 2019 First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.

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30 Sep
2019

VERTIC participates in a seminar on the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC) in Djibouti

by Noel Stott || Blog, News

On 26 September, Senior Researcher Noel Stott participated in a Foundation for Strategic Research-hosted seminar on the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC) in Djibouti (City), Djibouti. Co-hosted with the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), the event was titled: ‘Dealing with missile proliferation: one side of […]

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19 Aug
2019

VERTIC hosts workshop on building capacity in Argentina and Brazil for nuclear disarmament verification

by Noel Stott || News, Nuclear Disarmament Verification || Tags: ,

On 7 – 8 August 2019, VERTIC co-hosted with the Nonproliferation for Global Security Foundation (NPSGlobal), a meeting to explore the role of Argentina and Brazil, and particularly, the potential role of Argentinian and Brazilian scientists and technical experts in the development and strengthening of nuclear disarmament verification measures.

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