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Appendix C: Recognizing the Importance of Education
Appendix C: Recognizing the Importance of Education
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National and international scientific organizations with policy inter ests related to biological weapons have been active on issues of disarma ment and nonproliferation for many years. The emphasis on education and the engagement of the broader international scientific community has been more recent, however.
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. Also in 2002, the International Committee of the Red Cross launched its own Biotechnology, Weapons, and Humanity initiative, calling for a "web of prevention" to address the risks that technologies from the life sciences could be used for hostile purposes.
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. As its website notes: "Because of its broad and diverse membership, the Council is increasingly called upon to speak on behalf of the global scientific community and to act as an advisor in matters ranging from ethics to the environment." Approximately a dozen of ICSU's unions can be considered part of the "life sciences" -- reflecting the breadth and fragmentation of the field, unlike the single unions for physics and chemistry.
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, launched in 2000, is a global network of 64 academies of science and medicine, committed to improving health worldwide. IAMP activities focus on "institutional collaboration to strengthen the role of all academies to alleviate the health burdens of the world's poorest people; build scientific capacity for health; and provide independent scientific advice on promoting health science and health care policy to national governments and global organizations." The IAMP website is http:// www.iamponline.org/.
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Development also continued at the national level. For example, in June 2007 the NSABB issued its Proposed Framework for the Oersight of Dual Use Life Sciences Research: Strategies for Minimizing the Potential Misuse 9 The other elements are Awareness, Safety and Security, Accountability, and Oversight.
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government, but if adopted the requirement for educa tion across all the federal agencies, funding life sciences research would be significant. The potential impact on the United States is obvious, but it seems likely that the effects would spread through the extensive networks of international scientific collaboration supported by federal agencies.
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support for education: "The U.S. believes that such education should be a mandatory aspect of gradu ate education in the life sciences in the broader context of professional responsibility, and that this meeting should urge States Parties to explore and undertake such efforts" (Rocca 2008:3)
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A workshop organized by the American Association for the Advance ment of Science (AAAS) produced the general recommendation that "the scientific, ethical, and legal issues related to identifying and addressing issues related to dual use life sciences research should be taught to Ameri can and foreign scientists working in the life sciences in the U.S., with due consideration to relevance and flexibility of educational curricula at the institution," and a long list of more specific proposals (AAAS 2008:56)
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id=155&0 U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences (2006)
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http://www.academiesciences.fr/ publications/rapports/rapports_html/rapportPUF_Korn.htm Uganda National Academy of Science: Promoting Biosafety and Biosecurity Within the Life Sciences: An International Workshop in East Africa (2008) http://ugandanationalacademy.org/downloads/biosafe.pdf IAP -- IAMP -- IUBMB -- International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
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org/about.htm Royal Society -- International Council for the Life Sciences: New Approaches to Biological Risk Assessment (2009) http://royalsociety.org/ Newapproachestobiologicalriskassessment/ U.S.
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2007. Proposed Framework for the Oversight of Dual Use Life Sciences Research: Strategies for Minimizing the Potential Misuse of Research Information.
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