Notes: Disarmament Today - Conference

The International Community Between Progress and StagnationMarc FinaudFrom COCOM to Wassenaar Agreement
- First steps towards transparency in arms trade

Arms Trade Treaty - the biggest success so far
National regulations
Embargos
Norms and Rules
Trade register
Conclusion:Means are not necessarily efficientArielle DenisVideo introduction: Humanitarian impact of nuclear weaponsA treaty to ban nuclear weapons, now!
Humanitarian impact
Stigmatization
Obligation
Role models
Silvia MercoglianoConference on DisarmamentQuestion:War is business, how to make submarginal?
- Reports that make firms unattractive.

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Regional and Bilateral Level:
Accomplishments and Way AheadTim CaughleyTreaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Locking ahead
Drawing attention to the issue
Pavel Podvig New START

Regular data exchange
Misguiding numbers
Unambitious
Too small scale
Remarks:
Achievements rather worrying - positive presentation seems too exaggerated.

- True, less perceived threat leads to neglect of real danger.
Naive to believe that ratified states abide
- Public pressure and patience needed.

Chemical and Biological Weapons ProhibitionVirginia GambaNon-proliferation of weapons of mass destructionProgress is made!Karin HjalmarssonBiological Weapons Convention
Improving adaption to modern times
Threat: Non-state actors
Jean Pascal ZandersChemical Weapons ConventionUse of agents in Syria