Roel Walravens
@roelw.bsky.social
Researcher on sanctions, WMD disarmament & international law @vertic.bsky.social
Check out the Summer 2025 edition of Trust & Verify! In the Compliance Watch section, I explore the often-overlooked, but growing, sanctions evasion risk posed by fraudulent vessel registries. 🚢
📢 T&V No. 176 is out! Marking 50 yrs of the BTWC 🧬 & 100 yrs of the Geneva Protocol 📜, with a lead article by Jean Pascal Zanders (@ban-cbw.bsky.social), plus insights on nuclear irreversibility, institutionalisation of the BTWC & maritime sanctions evasion. Read: www.vertic.org/2025/07/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 176, Summer 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Check out the Summer 2025 edition of Trust & Verify! In the Compliance Watch section, I explore the often-overlooked, but growing, sanctions evasion risk posed by fraudulent vessel registries. 🚢
In this edition of T&V, I discuss the new DPRK 🇰🇵 Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, including the challenge it faces in gaining wider authority & legitimacy within the international community 🌍, before addressing specific issues concerning the establishment & operation of the new mechanism
Trust & Verify No.175 is out! Featuring a lead article on the establishment of the new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team for implementation of UNSCRs relating to North Korea, plus pieces on North Korea’s enrichment programme & the use of AI for tracking dark ships
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 175, Winter 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
www.vertic.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In this edition of T&V, I discuss the new DPRK 🇰🇵 Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, including the challenge it faces in gaining wider authority & legitimacy within the international community 🌍, before addressing specific issues concerning the establishment & operation of the new mechanism
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Researcher Roel Walravens was in Malaysia last week to discuss challenges posed by emerging biotechnologies & biosecurity under #1972BWC at the ‘Emerging Biotechnologies: Risks, Governance, & Regional Collaboration Symposium’. Thanks to Health Security Partners for organizing this important event.
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Researcher Roel Walravens was in Malaysia last week to discuss challenges posed by emerging biotechnologies & biosecurity under #1972BWC at the ‘Emerging Biotechnologies: Risks, Governance, & Regional Collaboration Symposium’. Thanks to Health Security Partners for organizing this important event.