University of Bath - Biochemical security 2030 - towards improved science-based multilevel
governance
The project will analyse from an international regime perspective how improved science-based
multilevel governance measures of future biochemical security can be conceptualised and
implemented. The primary focus of attention in the project will be to investigate how the work of
the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
can be improved so that effective action can be taken to more efficiently develop awareness,
education, controls and use for key users such as biologists, chemists and other associated
scientists whose work has dual-use implications.
The scientific approach to the problem of effectiveness brings together work on arms control,
security governance, and science and policy-making to examine the question of regime
effectiveness. From this, the project is particularly interested the relationship between science,
policy-making and education in the cases of the BWC and CWC regimes.