This page contains links to various comment and analysis pieces on the Second RevCon and reports from meetings at which the RevCon was discussed.
RevCon Daily Reports
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 1 – Monday 7th April 2008, “The Run-Up to the Conference: Preparations and Expectations
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 2 – Tuesday 8th April 2008, “The Opening of the Conference: Procedures and Statements”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 3 – Wednesday 9th April 2008, The Second Day of the Conference: Further General Debate
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 4 – Thursday 10th April 2008, “The Third Day: General Debate and the Open Forum”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 5 – Friday 11th April 2008, “The Fourth Day: Committee of the Whole Convenes”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 6 – Monday 14th April 2008, “First Week Completed: Sufficient Rate of Progress?”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 7 – Tuesday 15th April 2008, “Start of the Second Week: Picking up the Pace”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 8 – Wednesday 16th April 2008, “The Seventh Day: Stumbling Forward”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 9 – Thursday 17th April 2008, “The Eighth Day: Working Against the Clock”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 10 – Friday 18th April 2008, ” The Penultimate Day: Running Close to the Wire”
Richard Guthrie, CWC Review Conference Report – Number 11 – Monday 21st April 2008, “The Final Day (and a half): Closure of the Conference
OPCW Open Forum, 9 April 2008
On 9 April 2008 in the Ieper Room at OPCW Headquarters the OPCW hosted an Open Forum for NGOs, academia and the chemical industry to address RevCon delegates. The Open Forum was chaired by Ralf Trapp. Posted here, with the authors’ permission, are the presentations, in the order in which they were given:
Daniel Feakes, (Harvard Sussex Program), “Prospects for CWC Universality” [Presentation]
Paul Walker, {Global Green USA), “Chemical Weapons Destruction: Progress and Challenges” [Presentation]
Neil Harvey, (CEFIC), “CWC and Industry: 10 Years On and Beyond” [Presentation] [Statement] [ICCA Position Paper]
Angela Woodward, (VERTIC), “National Implementation” [Statement]
Jiří Matoušek, (Czech Republic), “Assistance and Protection – One of the Main Pillars of the CWC: Access of the Czech Republic to Article X” [Presentation]
Alastair Hay, (University of Leeds), “Outreach and Codes of Conduct” [Presentation]
Abdouraman Bary, (Burkina Faso), “Economic and Technological Development” [Presentation] [Statement]
Mark Wheelis, (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation), “Toxic Chemicals and Law Enforcement” [Presentation]
Robert Mathews, (Australia), “Other Chemical Production Facilities: Inspections” [Presentation]
Articles
“Where to From Here? The First CWC Review Conference and the Next Five Years”, The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 60 (June 2003), pp. 1-5.
Sergey Batsanov, “Approaching the Tenth Anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention: A Plan for Future Progress“, Nonproliferation Review, vol. 13 no. 2 (July 2006), pp. 339-353.
Donald Neill, “The Chemical Weapons Convention: Topics for the Second Review Conference”, Chemical Disarmament, vol. 5, 10th anniversary special edition (May 2007), pp. 14-18.
“Preparing for the Second CWC Review Conference: HSP Views”, The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 76+77 (October 2007), pp. 1-3.
Walter Krutzsch and Adolf von Wagner, “‘Law Enforcement Including Domestic Riot Control’: The Interpretation of Article II, paragraph 9(d)”
Daniel Feakes, “Getting Down to the Hard Cases: Prospects for CWC Universality”, Arms Control Today, vol. 38 no. 2 (March 2008 )
John Hart, “The Continuing Legacy of Old and Abandoned Chemical Weapons”, Arms Control Today, vol. 38 no. 2 (March 2008 )
Oliver Meier, “Chemical Weapons Parlay’s Outcome Uncertain”, Arms Control Today, vol. 38 no. 2 (March 2008 )
Ralf Trapp, “Advances in Science and Technology and the Chemical Weapons Convention”, Arms Control Today, vol. 38 no. 2 (March 2008 )
Scott Spence and Ralf Trapp, “The Chemical Weapons Convention: the Second Review Conference and Beyond”, RUSI Homeland Security and Resilience Commentary, (6 March 2008 )
Oliver Meier, “CWC Review Conference Avoids Difficult Issues”, Arms Control Today, vol. 38 no. 4 (May 2008 )
Books & Reports
Arms Control Association, The 2008 Chemical Weapons Convention Review Conference: A Collection of Articles, Essays and Interviews on Tackling the Threats Posed by Chemical Weapons, April 2008.
Alan Pearson, Marie Chevrier and Mark Wheelis (eds.), Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril? Lexington Books, November 2007.
Neil Davison, ‘Off the Rocker’ and ‘On the Floor’: The Continued Development of Biochemical Incapacitating Weapons, Bradford Science and Technology Report No. 8.
Oliver Thränert and Jonathan Tucker, Freeing the World of Chemical Weapons: The Chemical Weapons Convention at the Ten-Year Mark, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, July 2007.
British Medical Association, The Use of Drugs as Weapons: The Concerns and Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals, BMA Board of Science, May 2007.
Meetings
Wilton Park, “Countering Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation”, 28-30 September 2007.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, “Second Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Future Challenges for the Convention”, London, 26 March 2007.
26th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the CBW Conventions, 10 Years of the OPCW: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 17-18 March 2007.
6th BWC Review Conference
Una Becker, Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Sixth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, PRIF Report no. 79, 2007
Richard Guthrie, A New Lease of Life: The 6th Review Conference of the BTWC and Beyond, BWPP Occasional Paper no. 3 (December 2007)
Richard Guthrie, “Rising Out of the Doldrums: Report on the BWC Review Conference”, Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 84 (Spring 2007)
Masood Khan, “The 2006 BWC Review Conference: The President’s Reflections”, Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 84 (Spring 2007)
Jez Littlewood, “Out of the Valley: Advancing the Biological Weapons Convention After the 2006 Review Conference”, Arms Control Today, vol. 37, no. 2 (March 2007)
Nicholas Sims, “The Future of Biological Disarmament: New Hope After the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention”, Nonproliferation Review, vol. 14, no. 2 (July 2007)
OEWG-NGO Meeting
On 19 November 2007 the OPCW Open-Ended Working Group for the Second Review Conference invited a number of NGOs to a meeting in The Hague. Here are some of the presentations given by NGOs at the meeting (posted with the authors’ permission).
- Rocio Escauriaza, VERTIC, “VERTIC Statement”
- Richard Guthrie, CBW Events, “NGO Participation in Meetings of Global Arms Control Treaties”
- Alastair Hay, University of Leeds, “Multiple Uses of Chemicals: Making the Right Choice”
- Walter Krutzsch, “Implementation of the CWC”
- Kathryn McLaughlin, BWPP, “Lessons from Geneva: Learning from the BTWC”
- Caitríona McLeish, Harvard Sussex Program, “Towards the Second CWC Review Conference”
- Oliver Meier, Arms Control Association, “Statement of ACA to the Meeting with Non-Governmental Organizations at the OPCW, The Hague”
- Alan Pearson, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, “Incapacitating Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention“
Interviews
Arms Control Association interview on 8 February 2008 with US U.S. Ambassador Donald A. Mahley, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Threat Reduction, Export Controls, and Negotiations.
Arms Control Association interview on 20 November 2007 with with British Ambassador Lyn Parker, chair of the Open-Ended Working Group preparing for the Review Conference.
Arms Control Association interview on 16 March 2007 with OPCW Director-General Rogelio Pfirter.
