Ceasefire.ca evaluation of government performance gives failing grade on arms trade transparency, NATO sabre rattling and missed opportunity on UN peacekeeping.
Trudeau government: Room for improvement on key security issues
Tag Archives: UN peacekeeping
Defence policy review misses big picture
By focusing solely on military responses to peace and security challenges, we have the defence tail wagging the entire dog of global affairs.
From peacebuilding to sustaining peace
What exactly is “sustaining peace”? And how will the UN work within this new conceptual framework?
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 […]
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.