Bristolpost covers protest over university and defence companies but article should have read university website
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol…A while back university released details on web
bristol.ac.uk/university/relat…"Where we do have relationships with organisations operating in the defence sector, our work is either related to their civil sectors or some other socially beneficial purpose... However, we recognise that certain research areas have the potential for ‘dual use’ in defence applications"
"UK universities have a clear duty to maintain academic freedom"
"The investment policy includes a specific requirement to make positive investments. It also restricts the University or its agents from investing in entities that:
generate more than 10% of turnover from the manufacture of anti-personnel weapons, or
have a record of direct involvement in human rights abuses, or
have explicit links to such entities.
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"Our overriding aim is to have no exposure to arms organisations or organisations involved in in human rights abuses. However, there may be cases where an organisation is involved with primarily civilian technologies which could also have a military application, or where there might otherwise be some ambiguity about how their outputs may be used. "
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