• 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

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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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  • Free Speech: A New Trigger for Global Crisis

    Free Speech: A New Trigger for Global Crisis

    A different version of this essay was published in the Huffington Post, September 19, 2012. The hate-mongering film produced by an extremist anti-Muslim individual in the U.S. (who is also a convicted criminal) has triggered anti-U.S. violence around the world by hate-filled Muslim extremists. Among the tragic victims so far are four dead U.S. diplomats,

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  • Will Lakhdar Brahimi’s Hard-Nosed Mediation Save Syria?

    Will Lakhdar Brahimi’s Hard-Nosed Mediation Save Syria?

    The arrival of Lakhdar Brahimi in Syria late last week drew little media attention. But his trip, and the larger mission of which it is a part, carry enormous consequences. Brahimi is the envoy appointed jointly by the UN and the Arab League to find a negotiated solution to the civil war in Syria. He

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