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Biochemical Security 2030

Biochemical Security 2030 . Towards improved S cience-based m ultilevel governance Project introduction and update First project m eeting 30/10/13. Project Focus. How to close the gap between advances in S&T and existing governance capacities in Chemical and Biological Weapons regimes?

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Biochemical Security 2030

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  1. Biochemical Security 2030 Towards improved Science-based multilevel governance Project introduction and update First project meeting 30/10/13

  2. Project Focus

  3. How to close the gap between advances in S&T and existing governance capacities in Chemical and Biological Weapons regimes? An issue of calibration and capacity?

  4. 1.How do CBW regimes currently identify and address S&T risk 2. Assumed Trajectories of three key S&T areas – synthetic biology, neuroscience,and nanotechnology, including targeted drug delivery. 3. Are new areas of S&T generating new governance structures- Consequence for CW regimes 4. How can international regimes better respond to these developments at international level 5. How feasible are UK regional security networks of public andprivate research institutions?

  5. Threshold concept • Thinking about the future S&T challenges underpinned by several drivers: • Changing nature of warfare • Politics of CBW regimes • Two level changes in S&T • Outputs • Underlying systems of Tech generation (Kelle, Nixdorff, Dando 2012)

  6. Project Design

  7. Focus of analysis Fields of S&T Politics Institutions CBW regime Issues Policy Initiatives

  8. Project Design (Stream 1) Empirical Research Outputs Policy Material Academic Publications Online Presence

  9. Project Design (Stream 2) Local level Assessment and Networking Feasibility Study

  10. Project Progress • 5 Briefing papers currently being drafted (12 in total) • Website and Twitter are live Biochemsec2030.org @biochemsec2030

  11. Synthetic Biology: Example Case Study • What are the issues, how have they emerged? • Gene-synthesis, diffusion and deskilling dynamics • Which institutions are key in identifying and responding to biosafety concerns - Government/Biosafety/ Scientific Community • Life and death of policy initiatives? - When policy outpaces institutions, sustainability • What has been ‘learnt’ from experiences related to Synthetic Biology? • Policy Communities/ Scientific Communities/ Institutional Capacities

  12. Key Questions for this meeting • Key themes/ Lines of Enquiry • Focus, timelines and targets of policy 0utputs • Briefing papers? • Monographs? • Edited series? • How can future meetings be useful to you?

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