Links - Biosecurity & Dual Use Education: Materials, Modules and Resources

In recent years, a number of initiatives have been undertaken pertinent to dual use and biosecurity education:

- As part of its “Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity” appeal, the International Committee of the Red Cross has produced a document titled Preventing Hostile Use of the Life Sciences: From Ethics and Law to Best Practice to provide principles to promote awareness of the humanitarian norms against the hostile use of the life sciences.
- The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation within the University of California run a two week summer course for graduate students and junior professionals examining the threat of bioterrorism.
- The World Health Organization has issues laboratory guidance for biosecurity titled Biorisk Management: Laboratory Biosecurity Guidance.
- Sandia National Laboratories in the US has an International Biological Threat Reduction program intended for practitioners in the life sciences aimed at minimizing biological risks from research.
- The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation produced an online educational program titled “Biosecurity: Risks, Responses, and Responsibilities”.
- The Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections (SECREB) has established an online module ("The Dual-Use Dilemma in Biological Research") intended for those engaged in biological research.
- The Federation of American Scientists has produced a series of on-line educational modules designed to increase awareness of biosecurity and promote enhanced self-regulation by scientists.
- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the Free University Brussels, and the International Relations and Security Network have developed an education module about the non-proliferation of chemical and biological weapons.
- The Nuclear Threat Initiative has complied a listing of university and institute courses taught with material relevant to the problem of biological weapons.
- Middlebury College convened a fourth annual workshop for those studying nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to develop curriculum and course syllabus with special respect to non-proliferation, in May 2006.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science has created a web resource related to ‘dual use' issues in the life sciences.

In relation to chemical weapons, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry commissioned an educational web site in 2007 about the mutliple uses of chemistry.