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19th Pugwash Workshop Study Group on the
Implementation of the CBW Conventions:
The First CWC Review Conference and Beyond

Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, 26-27 April 2003

Final List of Papers


1. James Seevaratnam: The Australia Group. Its Role and Impact as a Nonproliferation Regime
2. Jiri Matousek: Brief Information on the Report of the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board for the First CWC Review Conference
3. Jiri Matousek: Emergent Threats to the Chemical Weapons Convention
4. RG Sutherland: Industrial Inspections of DOC/PSF Plants and the Chemical Weapons Convention
3B. Slides
5. RG Sutherland: Scientific and Technological Developments, Industrial Change and the Chemical Weapons Convention
6. Matthew Meselson/Julian Robinson: A Draft Convention to Prohibit Biological and Chemical Weapons Under International Criminal Law
7. Richard Burgess: A Short Note on Industry Issues during Inspections
8. Robin M. Coupland: "Calmatives" and "Incapacitants": Questions for international humanitarian law brought by new means and methods of warfare with new effects?
9. Mark Wheelis: "Non-Lethal" Chemical Weapons-A Faustian Bargain (in press), Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2003, 74-78
10. Lynn Klotz, Martin Furmanski, Mark Wheelis: Beware the Siren's Song: Why "Non-Lethal" Incapacitating Chemical Agents are Lethal
11. Chayes, Meselson, Smith: Proposed Guidelines on the Status of Riot Control Agents and Other Toxic Chemicals under the Chemical Weapons Convention
12. Malcolm Dando: First CWC Review Conference Paper No. 4: The Danger to the Chemical Weapons Convention from Incapacitating Chemicals, March 2003 (Series Editors: Graham S. Pearson and Malcolm R. Dando, Dept. of Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
13. Nicholas A Sims: Implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention in Full: Some Issues of Comprehensiveness in National Penal Legislation under Article VII
14. Peter Plant: Capability
15. Walter Krutzsch: Non-lethal Chemicals for Law Enforcement? (Paper + Appendix)
16. Walter Krutzsch: How to Respond to the Non-lethal Weapons' Challenge
17. Lisa Tabassi: National Implementing Legislation for the Chemical Weapons Convention: Status Six Years after Entry into Force (Part 1: Paper---Part 2: Annexes)
18. Eitan Barak: Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in the Middle East after the Saddam Era: Is There a Way Out of the Deadlock?
19. Julian Robinson: The General Purpose Criterion and the Importance of Its Implementation
20. Graham Pearson: First CWC Review Conference Paper No. 3: Implementation of the General Purpose Criterion of the Chemical Weapons Convention, January 2003 (Series Editors: Graham S. Pearson and Malcolm R. Dando, Dept. of Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
21. Julian Robinson: Solving the Problem of "Law Enforcement"
22. Wim Möller: Quo Vadis ? Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical in Particular
23. OPCW Conference of State Parties: Note by the Director General to the First Review Conference (RC-1/DG.1, 17 April 2003)
24. OPCW Conference of State Parties: Note by the Director-General. Report of the Scientific Advisory Board on Developments in Science and Technology (RC-1/DG.2, 23 April 2003)
25. International Council of Chemical Associations: 2003 Chemical Weapons Convention Review Conference Discussion Paper (presented by Detlef Maennig)
26. Mohammad Khodadadi: Importance of Some Articles of the CWC
27. Jean Pascal Zanders: Peacekeeping operations, law enforcement, and the use of RCAs : Two examples