Dual Use Education (92187)

Would be students from a repressive country with widespread human rights violations want to learn a subject which is dual use. The training can be used both for human benefit. Yet, this training is used systematically in the country of the would-be students to inflict gross human rights violations.

What should be the response of the learning institutions to which these students apply? Should the students be rejected on the basis of the risk that their education could be turned to nefarious ends? Should the issue be ignored? Should the students be accepted subject to certain conditions, ethical commitments and ethical instruction?

The presentation would address these questions through a case study - student applicants from China wanting to learn abroad how to perform organ transplant surgery. There is overwhelming evidence that in China prisoners of conscience are being killed systematically for their organs for transplantation through organ extraction. The organs are sold to transplant tourists and wealthy and well-connected Chinese.

What should be the response of learning institutions outside of China to these student applications? The presentation will set out what various learning institutions outside of China have already done in answer to this question. The conclusion would be that, where the skill sought to be learned is abused in the country of the student applicants in a widespread and systematic manner, as is the case in China with organ transplantation surgery, the student applicants should not be accepted for training.

Authors:
David Matas, University of Manitoba, Canada

About the Presenter(s)
Mr David Matas is a Independent Scholar at University of Manitoba in Canada

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Dual Use Education (92187)

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