September 2002
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University of Bradford promotes Peace Studies website

The Department of Peace Studies has launched a website promoting their project on 'monitoring and assisting the process of strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention' (BTWC) to make publicly world wide the official United Nation and Convention documentation and Bradford's work on the convention.

The department is the largest University department devoted to peace studies and they previously conducted a small pilot project concerning Arms Control and Disarmament.

As well as the exclusive documentation that is shown on the web site the department has produced 20 web videos relating to key issues including the problem posed to international security by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

These web videos are available to everyone on Real Player or Windows Media Player Formats.

Key people involved include Dr. Simon Whitby and NATO Advanced Research Workshops are being held by the project team who have produced two volumes published by Kluwer and another one will be produced this year.

Related studies directed at significant communities have also been produced.

The 'BTWC' project was funded from 1997 by two large grants from Joseph Rowntree but has been funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York since April 2000.

A project web site has been very successful in achieving a world-wide acknowledgement of the University's work on the convention and is contributing to the department's 'world-wide status'.

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