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Op-ed: Let’s move from dangerous military posturing to serious negotiations
September 4, 2014
Opinion leaders appear to be demanding that NATO ramp up the very military posturing that could bring war ever closer.
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What remains unlearned from the First World War
August 26, 2014
Originally published in Embassy August 26, 2014. Perspectives of peace advocates, other civil society groups and women were dismissed at the time and continue to be under-represented in mainstream histories.
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Michael Byers: The North Pole is a distraction
August 21, 2014
Read the full article at the Globe and Mail. [T]he North Pole is … located more than 700 kilometres from land, in 4,000 metres of water covered with drifting sea ice. Powerful winds, frigid temperatures and seasonal darkness add to the misery. Like all waters more than 200 nautical miles (370 kilometres) from shore, the […]
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Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference – Sept 26 – 28
August 13, 2014
“World War I and Contemporary Policy on War and Peace” Sept. 26 – 28, Barney Danson Theatre, Canadian War Museum On the centenary of World War I this conference brings together historians and commentators from civil society, the diplomatic and military communities to reflect on how lessons from the “Great War” are relevant today to […]
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