VERTIC participated in the 24th Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention this week. The Convention’s States Parties gather in The Hague, the Netherlands every year for this conference to oversee the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, promote the Convention’s objectives, and review compliance with the treaty.
On November 7-9 Researcher Elena Gai took part in the Moscow Non-Proliferation Conference. Every two years the Conference gathers hundreds of experts and officials from government, international organisations and NGOs to tackle the most pressing challenges in the non-proliferation field. The Conference featured presentations on the future of the non-proliferation regime and the priorities of Russia’s […]
After 10 years our Executive Director has stepped down. A new Executive Director will work closely with the Board and the senior management team to ensure the organisation can continue to evolve in the current climate and is fit for purpose. VERTIC seeks an individual with outstanding leadership, management and communication skills. This is a […]
On 31 October – 1 November 2019, VERTIC ran a table-top exercise on investigations of alleged use of biological weapons under the UN Secretary General Mechanism (UNSGM). The exercise aimed at identifying practical challenges that a deployed UNSGM investigation team may face, and explore possible strategies to mitigate and overcome them. In particular, the exercise […]
VERTIC’s Senior Legal Officer Yasemin Balci participated in the Regional Meeting of EU CBRN Centres of Excellence Project 67, held in Tirana, Albania during 5 and 6 November. She also presented on regional legislative trends at the National Focal Points Round Table Meeting that was held parallel to the project’s meeting.
On 15-16 October, Programme Director Larry MacFaul participated in the conference ‘Maintaining Global Strategic Stability and Promoting International Nuclear Cooperation’. The 16th PIIC PIIC meeting on International Security was organised by the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, Program for Science and National Security Studies and Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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.
On 25-27 September, VERTIC participated in the 2019 Science, Peace and Security conference in Darmstadt, Germany. Attended by Senior Researcher Dr Grant Christopher, the conference included over 100 participants from eight difference countries presenting on current research on the interdisciplinary challenges and solutions to questions of international security, the creation of peace and transparency-and trust-building […]
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 […]
VERTIC Executive Director Andreas Persbo, Programme Director Larry MacFaul, Senior Researcher Alberto Muti and Researcher Elena Gai attended the 63rd IAEA General Conference. The conference was a great opportunity to be informed on the most advanced instruments to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards implementation, safeguards and regional cooperation, as well as concrete future […]