The Governance Gap: How to Address Global Challenges

3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference

Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS),
University of Ottawa
March 24-25, 2011

Thursday, March 24th 2011

• 7:00 – 8:00: Keynote Speech and Reception (DMS 12110)
  • Jayne Stoyles, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for International Justice Holding War Criminals Accountable: Global Successes and Challenges
• 8:00: Catered Reception

Friday, March 25th 2011

• 8:00 – 8:30: Registration and Conference Opening
• 8:30 – 8:45: Welcome and Conference Opening (DMS 3120)
• 8:45 – 10:10:
  • Panel 1: Challenges Facing Environmental Governance/Les défis de la gouvernance environnementale (DMS 3120)
• Alison Ronson (JD/MA student in International Affairs, Carleton University) Overlapping Intentions: the Interplay between the Arctic Council and the Law of the Sea in Environmental Governance
• Giuseppe Danese (PhD student in Economics, Simon Fraser University) To whom are Corporate Managers Trustees?
• Matthew Agarwala  (MA student in Economic Policy, McMaster University) Global Water Crisis
• Panel 2: Economic Visions in Governance/Gouvernance et visions économiques (DMS 3105)
• Graham Ireland (MA student in International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia) Measuring ‘Our Common Future’: An Analysis of the Evolution toward True Sustainability Index
• Nancy Wehbe (PhD student in Development, l’Université de Montréal) Le Budget Participatif au Pérou
• 10:10 – 10:30: Coffee Break
• 10:30 – 12:00
  • Panel 3: Global Dilemmas Facing Refugees and Humanitarian Aid/ Réfugiés et aide humanitaire: le dilemme global (DMS 3120)
  • Karen Stone (MA student in Public Administration, University of Manitoba) Group Resettlement Methodology: Implications for Canada’s Refugee Strategy
  • Bronwyn Russel (MA student in Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa) In Search of Higher Ground: Identifying a Way Forward for Climate Refugees
  • Adriana Bell (MA student in Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University) The Faith Factor: Why Faith Matters in International Development Aid
• 12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
• 1:00 – 2:30:
  • Panel 4: Transcendent Challenges to State Governance /Les défis transcendants à la gouvernance de l’état (DMS 3120)
  • Felix Beaudry-Vigneux (MA student in International Studies, l’Université Laval à Québec) La libéralisation des systèmes de communication et d’information comme une menace à l’État ou plutôt un outil de démocratisation?
  • Nelson Arturo Ovalle Diaz (PhD student in Law, Univeristy of Ottawa) Le partage de compétences souveraines à l’époque du pluralisme juridique international
• 2:30 – 2:45: Coffee Break
• 2:45 – 4:15:
  • Panel 5: Governance Applied to Conflict/ Situations de conflit et leur gouvernance (DMS 3120)
  • Peter Karari (PhD Student in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba) Responsibility to Protect or Strategic Interests? A Comparative Case Study of 2008 Kenyan Ethnopolitical Violence and Darfur Crisis in the Lens of the Responsibility to Protect
  • Evelyne Jean-Bouchard (PhD student in Law, University of Ottawa) Le rapport des Congolaises au droit et à leurs droits: participer à la reconstruction des espaces normatifs en période post-conflit
  • Todd MacDonald (MA Student in International Affairs, Carleton University) “Laying the Foundations for State-Stability while War-making” A Quantitative Analysis of Foreign-led Counterinsurgencies from 1946-1999
• 4:15 – 4:30: Coffee Break
• 4:30: Round Table Discussion (DMS 3120)

For further information, please contact us at [email protected] or visit the CIPS website.