Archive » Tag: Canadian Defence Policy
Pathways to Peace in Syria and Iraq
March 15, 2016
On March 10th, The Rideau Institute, Group of 78, and CIC jointly hosted a public forum entitled Pathways to Peace in Syria and Iraq, featuring panelists Payam Akhavan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University; Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Mokhtar Lamani, Former Head of the Office of the UN-Arab […]
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Let’s not repeat past mistakes in Libya
March 2, 2016
Five years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, an international military intervention is once again being considered in response to the establishment of a branch of the Islamic State (IS) on the Libyan coast. At the beginning of February, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on coalition partners involved in the fight […]
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Is Afghanistan a Model for our anti-ISIL Mission?
February 19, 2016
Afghan National Army soldiers at a graduation parade at the Kabul Military Training CentreCanada in Afghanistan: A Role Model for Canada’s Middle East Mission, by Nipa Banerjee, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Rideau Institute, was originally posted on the Centre for […]
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Update: E-70 Petition on the torture of Afghan detainees
February 16, 2016
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dene Moore Petition E-70 to the Government of Canada calls for an independent judicial commission of inquiry into Canada’s approach to Afghan detainees in Canadian custody. Please sign the petition! We have until April 15th, 2016 to let the Government of Canada know just how important an issue we think this is! To review and […]
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