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A Reflection on Responsibility: What Does Syria Mean for R2P?
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- October 26, 2012
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock Published in Diplomat Magazine, October 4, 2012 The world has watched in frustration as the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad of Syria has turned its weapons against its own citizens to suppress an insurgency and cling to power. The shocking estimates of civilian casualties (some as high as 20,000)
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Turning Scientists into Sybils
- Analysis
- October 26, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2012 Danger is ubiquitous but accurate and timely warnings of it are relatively rare; proper risk assessment is one of the great policy challenges of our time. A decision this week by an Italian court to sentence six scientists and a government official to
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The Iranians We Left Behind
- Analysis
- October 26, 2012
by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, October 25, 2012 When Canada closed its embassy in Tehran last month, it wasn’t just Canadian diplomats who were affected. We left behind a small number of local staff, and their plight deserves attention. Blindsided by Ottawa’s decision, they’re now in danger of becoming collateral damage
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Beyond 2015: MDGs, SDGs and Busan’s Global Partnership
- Analysis
- October 25, 2012
Despite a still-struggling global economy, one in which contagion from the developed world is now enveloping emerging economies, there is a boom in international donor-recipient diplomacy. Globalization is forcing us to recognize that there is no longer easily divisible rich and poor, North and South, but a new universality, a multi-layered world, with complex, often
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