The week-long course covered diverse topics within the nuclear security regime, including peaceful nuclear applications and key elements of nuclear security; the history of the nuclear security regime; binding and non-binding international instruments; synergies between peaceful uses and nuclear security; the role of the IAEA and other organizations; opportunities and challenges related to nuclear. [...] Point(s) of Contact Ingrid Kirsten, Senior Research Associate, ikirsten@middlebury.edu PROJECT 4 Accession to and Impact of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material on States Parties Project Type Strengthening international nuclear security architecture Geographical Focus Worldwide 20 | Catalogue of Civil Society Activities Strengthening Nuclear Security https. [...] In the lead-up to the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), States Parties engaged in a wide-ranging consultations on peaceful uses, including how to make better use of the NPT review process to further advance the peaceful use of the atom for 21 | Catalogue of Civil Society Activities Strengthening Nuclear Security . [...] With its original focus on practitioners and researchers from the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, the program expanded in the late 1990s to include candidates from East Asia, and then again in the mid-2000s to other regions of the world, to include, in particular countries representing the Non-Aligned Movement. [...] The initiative is sponsored by the International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau of the US State Department and will serve as 32 | Catalogue of Civil Society Activities Strengthening Nuclear Security mailto:mkalininapohl@middlebury.edu a channel for a deeper coordination and support between nonproliferation professionals in the US and Black Sea including scholars/research.
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