The International Biological Security Education Network: an imperative and timely tool for global biosecurity
This presentation and paper introduces the International Biological Security Education Network (BSEN) and covers its scope and relevance. The risks of scientific research with dual-use concern have been discussed in the past two decades. Dual-use research of concern (DURC) is scientific research...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9823/1/PPT%20ABSA%20conference%20-%20Iris%20Magne.pdf https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9823/7/Conference%20ABSA%20-Shang%20-FINAL.pdf |
| Summary: | This presentation and paper introduces the International Biological Security Education Network (BSEN) and covers its scope and relevance.
The risks of scientific research with dual-use concern have been discussed in the past two decades. Dual-use research of concern (DURC) is scientific research with significant potential for generating information that could be used to harm national security, the public health, and the environment. The rapid advances in life sciences represent the ever-expanding capabilities for malign use of the research. Although the civil society and government have progressively become aware of the risks of DURC, the efforts deployed lack coordination and there is a clear need for education on these issues in the scientific community.
The new initiative “International Biological Security Education Network (IBSEN)” which is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Fund, aims to address the above issue. The IBSEN objective is to create a global network to raise awareness and deliver education of biosecurity among life scientists and policymakers through comparing and integrating the International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN) which was developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and education efforts at ABEO of OPCW. |
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