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  • Realizing the Potential of Unarmed Civilians in Reducing Violent Conflict

    Realizing the Potential of Unarmed Civilians in Reducing Violent Conflict

    Guest contributor: LIAM MAHONY, Director of Fieldview Solutions and a pioneer in the theory and practice of international protection When the international community struggles today with decisions about how to address the terrible civilian costs of armed conflict, the toolbox of potential approaches is significantly expanded from a few decades ago. Diverse armed and unarmed

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  • John Baird’s Journey

    John Baird’s Journey

    In a speech last week to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Minister John Baird set out the priority he attaches to human rights in Canadian foreign policy. That Minister Baird prioritizes human rights is hardly new: his speeches and public statements repeat, mantra-like, the Harper government’s commitment to defend and promote “freedom, human

    By David Petrasek
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  • Foreign Aid: More of the Same?

    Foreign Aid: More of the Same?

    Published in Embassy Magazine, September 19, 2012 Canada’s contributions to reducing global poverty are rarely a priority topic for debate in the House of Commons. Foreign aid is an important tool for supporting international development, but it will likely attract less attention now that controversial international co-operation minister Bev Oda has resigned. Sadly, in the

    By Stephen Brown
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  • Canada’s Abandonment of the Responsibility to Protect

    Canada’s Abandonment of the Responsibility to Protect

    Guest contributor: KYLE MATTHEWS, Senior Deputy Director of the Will to Intervene Project at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (Concordia University) The Responsibility to Protect doctrine has many enemies. States that will not or cannot stop mass atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing) within their borders

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