Law, Policy and Nonproliferation Project Events and Workshops: Key Themes, Results and Related Materials 2008-2009
"As an essential element of the work, LPNP [Law, Policy and Nonproliferation Project] plans, organizes and executes small workshops and events on specific topics of relevance and concern regarding legal issues and the CWMD [Countering of Weapons of Mass Destrcution] mission. The intent of these efforts is three-fold: first, to highlight and assess relatively defined topics and to create informed discussion of those issues; second, to disseminate electronically, and in a timely fashion, the results of these events to any interested party, thereby increasing awareness and impact2; third, to serve as a socialization mechanism that draws together diverse expertise and communities of interest. The following captures the results and other materials for seven such events, covering roughly the first phase of the project, 2008-2009. The effort is on-going, so additional workshops and programs will be included in future reports. These events covered in this report are: PLNP Scoping Conference (September 2008); Legal Frameworks for US Cooperative Threat Reduction Efforts (October 2008); Resolution 1540: Did the Security Council Exceed its Authority? (November 2008); Preventive War: Do Weapons of Mass Destruction Change the Rules? (January 2009); Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Clearing the Legal Hurdles (March 2009); Attribution: Post-Nuclear Event (April 2009); The Legal and Policy Implications of Ambiguous Rocket Launch: Learning from the North Korea Case (May 2009) The main report is organized as follows: it first highlights the key themes from the various presentations and discussions, offering the reader the highest order critical thinking on the particular matter, along with a road map of issues and concerns that will remain relevant both on- and over-the-horizon. These key themes are infused with opinion from academia that informed the events. The subsequent section provides short abstracts or summaries of each event, to include key points of discussion. A lengthy appendix to this report provides additional materials, to include agendas, attendees, rapporteur notes (where available), and presentation texts." Note: This document has been added to the Homeland Security Digital Library in agreement with the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD (PASCC) as part of the PASCC collection. Permission to download and/or retrieve this resource has been obtained through PASCC.
Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Booz, Allen Applied Research Division; United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Johnson, Philip; Lotrionte, Catherine; McCarthy, Timothy
2010-04
