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Canadian Perspectives on Global Diplomacy, Part 1: The Lay of the Land
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- May 6, 2019
This 2-part CIPS blog is based on my guest presentation at a seminar for graduating trainee diplomats at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), University of West Indies, Trinidad, on 20 March 2019. The session was led jointly with Professor Winston Dookeran, a former Trinidadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. See Part 2 here. My goal
READ MORECanadian Perspectives on Global Diplomacy, Part 2: Dealing with the USA
- Analysis
- May 6, 2019
This 2-part CIPS blog is based on my guest presentation at a seminar for graduating trainee diplomats at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), University of West Indies, Trinidad, on 20 March 2019. The session was led jointly with Professor Winston Dookeran, a former Trinidadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. See Part 1 here. Once again,
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What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide
- Analysis
- May 1, 2019
By Payam Akhavan and John Packer Twenty-five years ago, as young UN human rights officers working together in Geneva, we witnessed how the world watched and did nothing as close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were exterminated. Brimming with idealism and faith in international law, we were shocked at this catastrophic failure of political will.
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“If You Want to Kill Me, Please Kill Me Quick”
- Analysis
- April 12, 2019
The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left his village, destroyed by the Janjaweed, to find “shelter” in an internally displaced persons’ camp where men were killed and women were raped.
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