After 16 months of leading the organisation as Acting Executive Director from New Zealand, Angela Woodward informed VERTIC’s Board that she wishes to return to her Deputy Executive Director position, devote more time to her role as Programme Director for VERTIC’s Compliance Mechanisms and Measures Programme, and return the executive management lead to a United Kingdom-based member of […]
On 4 March 2021, Associate Legal Officer Thomas Brown presented at a virtual Regional Workshop on Achieving the Universalisation of the Biological Weapons Convention in Africa. The workshop brought together representatives of African states that are yet to join the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and featured video messages from all three Depositary Governments of the […]
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.
On February 9 VERTIC and the NPS Global Foundation hosted the second online workshop of a series of four within the Project Building Capacity on Multilateral Verification of Nuclear Disarmament. Such a project focuses on harnessing, developing, supporting and sustaining expertise and capacity on nuclear disarmament verification (NDV) in regions around the world. The second online […]
The ELN and VERTIC hosted a Track 1.5 roundtable event on “Creating Better Understandings of the JCPOA Verification and Monitoring Regime”. The event was attended by former and current officials from the US, EU and the E3, and included keynote remarks from Corey Hinderstein and Ambassador Stephan Klement. The event offered a chance to reflect […]
VERTIC in conjunction with The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) held the 1st Workshop within the Project ‘Building Capacity on Multilateral Verification of Nuclear Disarmament’ on November 25-26. Such a project focuses on harnessing, developing, and sustaining expertise and capacity on nuclear disarmament verification (NDV) in regions around the world. This work will complement the efforts being undertaken […]
On 25 November 2020, the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium held the annual Next Generation Workshop, organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). This event brought together young professionals in the field of arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament to discuss relevant challenges. 14 young professionals were chosen to present at the online 2020 edition of […]
On 30 November 2020, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) held a virtual Orientation Workshop for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Verification and Monitoring Programme Director Larry Macfaul provided insights on lessons to be learnt from the field of nuclear safeguards and disarmament verification at the event organised jointly by the Secure World Foundation and UNIDIR on November 10.
On 1 October, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), hosted a roundtable discussion to celebrate what would have been the 20th anniversary of the International School of Nuclear Law (ISNL), an annual two-week nuclear law course usually taking place in Montpellier and which a number of former and current VERTIC staff attended. The virtual event […]