UN officials mark International Women’s Day with calls to “Step It Up” with more resources and greater political action to achieve gender equality by 2030.
UN celebrates Int’l Women’s Day
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Replace bombs with diplomacy
Canada is in urgent need of a progressive, innovative, and effective defence and security policy for the 21st Century.
Why peacebuilding fails and what we can do about it
Although research demonstrates that peacekeeping missions, on balance, have a good track record, many of the practices, habits, and narratives that shape peacebuilders’ efforts on the ground are counterproductive. This, at least, is the argument put forward by Séverine Autesserre, researcher and associate professor at Columbia University, after conducting several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world. In her book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, Autesserre explains how expatriates often live lives that are largely separated from the populations they are trying to help, and how this can undermine the very notion of local ownership that is key to the success of peacebuilding missions.
We need an open and transparent defence review!
University of Ottawa professor Srdjan Vucetic makes the case for an inclusive defence policy review that engages the Canadian public.
“This Remembrance Day I’ll wear two poppies: one red and one white”
Veteran Malcolm French on poppies and the meaning of Remembrance Day
Canada must do its part to rein in the global arms industry
Canada must do its part to rein in the global arms industry.