Senior Research Fellow Trevor Findlay Speaks on Nuclear Safeguards at IAEA Symposium

On October 21, 2014, Trevor Findlay, senior research fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom (MTA), chaired a session of the International Atomic Energy Agency's quadrennial Symposium on International Safeguards held at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. In addition to chairing the session on "Performance Management in Non-profit Organizations," he also presented a paper with a powerpoint slides on IAEA nuclear safeguards culture, "IAEA Safeguards Culture: 'Candy Concept' or Powerful Prism?"

His presentation was based on research for an MTA project on safeguards culture funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The symposium, which had as its theme "Linking Strategy, Implementation, and People," was held from October 20–24, 2014, and was attended by over 400 delegates, including diplomatic representatives, scientific and technical experts in safeguards and nongovernmental organizations and academics. Nuclear safeguards are designed to detect non-compliance with undertakings by states not to acquire nuclear weapons, notably commitments made pursuant to the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Both the paper and powerpoint slides may be downloaded here>