About Michael Crowley

Michael Crowley is project coordinator of the Bradford Non‐lethal Weapons Research Project (BNWRP). He is the author of the project’s report, Dangerous Ambiguities: Regulation of Riot Control Agents and Incapacitants under the Chemical Weapons Convention (University of Bradford, October 2009)

Articles by Michael Crowley

The state and the body: a chemical-weapons test

The danger of security agencies and violent groups using “incapacitatant” chemical agents to disable armed or civilian adversaries has grown since the Moscow theatre siege of 2002. There is urgent need and imminent opportunity for regulation, says Michael Crowley.

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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