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Baird’s Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada’s Inconsistency
- Analysis
- April 5, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, April 5, 2013 The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking “clear positions” in the defence of human rights. Why, then, did Foreign Minister John Baird barely utter a peep in public about Bahrain’s terrible human rights record when
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Learning the Tricks of the Trade: Canada in South Sudan
- Analysis
- April 4, 2013
By guest-bloggers Jennifer Erin Salahub, Senior Researcher and Team Leader at the North-South Institute, and Margaret Capelazo, Gender Advisor at CARE Canada. As part of the global aid effectiveness agenda, the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States reflects the fact that solutions to violence and fragility are more likely to be sustainable when
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Will it be a ‘New Deal’ or a ‘Raw Deal’ for FCAS?
- Analysis
- April 3, 2013
By guest-blogger Julia Sanchez, President-CEO of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, the national platform for Canadian civil society organizations working on international development. Based purely on need, enhancing our focus (and resources) on fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) is not a hard case to make. As the World Development Report 2011 reminded us,
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Rewriting the History of Iraq
- Analysis
- April 2, 2013
The recent 10 year anniversary of the Iraq war brought forth a flood of retrospective analyses, many dedicated to answering the vexed question of whether it was worth it. In reading them, one is struck by the arguments of those who remain wedded to the ideological arguments made at the time, many of whom were
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