This page lists and links to conferences, seminars and meetings where bioweapons codes of conduct have been a topic of focus. If you know of additional items which should be included, please contact us.

Regrettably, summary notes of workshops intended to seek a broad range of views from the academic, scientific, industrial communities about codes are no longer accessible for non-workshop participants, the main rationale being to promote dialogue within such meetings.

2001

16th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: The Fifth BTWC Review Conference
Geneva, Switzerland, 24–25 November 2001

2002

General Assembly
World Medical Association
Washington DC, USA, September 2002

International Committee of the Red Cross Meeting: Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity
Montreux, Switzerland, 23–24 September 2002

18th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions: The Resumption of the Fifth Review Conference 2002 and Beyond
Geneva, Switzerland, 9–10 November 2002

2003

Meeting On National Security and Scientific Openness
The US National Academies and the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington DC, USA, 9 January

Pugwash Workshop No. 286: Pugwash Workshop on Science, Ethics and Society
Paris, France, 27–29 June

Managing the Threat from Biological Weapons: Science, Society and Secrecy
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, University of Bradford and University of Nottingham
London, UK, 28 July

Biological Weapons: Where is the Threat Now?
Seminar sponsored by the Science and Society Trust (following a public meeting at the BA’s Festival of Science at the University of Salford)
Manchester, UK, 10 September 2003

The BWC Intersessional Process: towards the Sixth Review Conference and Beyond
20th Pugwash Workshop on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions
Geneva, Switzerland, 8–9 November

Biological Weapons and International Relations
General Assembly of the Interacademy Panel
Mexico City, Mexico, 3 December

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Code of Conduct
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Lancaster House, London, UK, 15 December

Third session of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1–4 December

2004

Roundtable
United Nations Foundation - The National Academies - Nuclear Threat Initiative
Washington DC, USA, 19 April

The Future of the Biotechnology Industry: Safeguarding the Opportunities and Managing the Risks
International Institute for Strategic Studies-US and the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
26–28 April 2004

Roundtable on Preventing Hostile Use of Life Sciences
British Red Cross & International Committee of the Red Cross
London, UK, 7 May

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Code of Conduct
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UCL, London, UK, 17 June

BA Festival of Science
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Exeter, UK, 8 September 2004

Do No Harm
The Royal Society and Wellcome Trust
The Royal Society, London, UK, 7 October

The Future of the Life Sciences
CBACI and IISS-US
Washington DC, 8–10 December

2005

International Forum on Biosecurity
The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues, the International Council for Science, the InterAcademy Medical Panel and The National Academies of the United States
Como, Italy, 20–22 March

Science and Security
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) & the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Heidelberg, Germany, 28–29 October


Launch of the International Council for the Life Sciences and The World Life Sciences Forum 'BioVision'

CBACI and IISS-US
Lyon, France, 14 April

Meeting of Experts to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
UN BTWC
Geneva, Switzerland, 13–24 June

First Meeting of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
Bethesda MD, USA, 30 June–1 July

2005 Meeting of States Parties
UN BTWC
Geneva, Switzerland, 5–9 December

2006

AAAS Annual Meeting, Session: Codes of Conduct and the Biological Weapons Convention
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
St. Louis MO, USA, 18 February

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity Meeting
(Meeting where Considerations in Developing a Code of Conduct for Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences was agreed)
Bethesda MD, USA, 13 July

6th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
UN BTWC
Geneva, Switzerland, 20 November – 8 December