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15 months on, Canada still has not pledged actual troops for an actual UN peace operation
November 21, 2017
Our previous blog post featured a new publication from ten experts discussing What Canada Has Done And Should Be Doing For UN Peace Operations (WFM-Canada, John Trent, editor, November 2017). This week we focus on the results of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial hosted by Canada in Vancouver on 14-15 November. Sadly Canada failed to deliver on its long overdue commitment to […]
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Civil society conference offers practical way forward on nuclear disarmament
October 3, 2017
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. — General Omar Bradley, 1948. From Friday, September 22nd to Saturday, September 23rd, this year’s Group of 78 Annual Policy […]
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Omar Khadr settlement a victory for the rule of law
July 17, 2017
“On behalf of the Government of Canada, we wish to apologize to Mr. Khadr.” – Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale “I hope Canadians take away two things today…. First, our rights are not subject to the whims of the government of the day. And second, there are serious costs when the government violates the rights […]
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New UN treaty outlaws nuclear weapons
July 10, 2017
Friday, 7 July at the UN Headquarters in New York more than 120 countries adopted a landmark treaty to ban nuclear weapons. All nine nuclear-armed states, and all NATO members except the Netherlands, had refused to participate in the negotiations. “These states recognize that the ban treaty would represent a potent stigmatization of the nuclear weapons they […]
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