This film provides a broad history of the use of chemical weapons, as well as the efforts to outlaw and eliminate them. It offers a rare look at the implementation of a global treaty that has been both voluntary and highly effective at addressing the threat of chemical weapons.
Espace Dickens
Dickens 4
1006 Lausanne
Film Screening:
From 18:00 until 19:00
Panel Discussion and
Audience Questions:
From 19:00 until 20:00
The panel discussion will explore some of the current and future challenges around controlling and destroying chemical weapons, such as how the Chemical Weapons Convention can deal with non-state actors armed with chemical agents, and what the next steps are for the OPCW’s mandate.