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What Should Canada Do for Afghanistan?
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- December 8, 2021
Despite no longer making the headlines, the situation in Afghanistan is a lot worse now than it was in August, when the world watched in horror as people fell off a military airplane leaving Kabul Airport. What should Canada do for Afghanistan? In four words: less talk, more action. George Marshall’s comments in the wake of post-WWII European rehabilitation
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What Would a Rights-Based Approach to Women’s Peace and Security Entail?
- Analysis
- November 24, 2021
In my previous blog, I wrote that there is no evidence for instrumentalist claims about women and peace. Increasing participation of women in peacekeeping, in formal peace negotiations and in local peacebuilding activities does not make these activities more effective. Given the glaring lack of evidence, political actors should abandon instrumentalist arguments and instead build
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Adding Women May Not Help Keep the Peace
- Analysis
- November 23, 2021
Instrumentalist claims about the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda do not bear out in the first systematic review on the topic. Since the adoption of UNSC Resolution 1325 in October 2000, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has been a top priority for the United Nations and many member states. UNSC Resolution 1325
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China-Canada Dialogue
- Analysis
- November 15, 2021
A recent Globe and Mail story about the “China-Canada Track Two Dialogue” was a rare reveal of the kinds of dialogue that go on quietly around the world. Even more revealing were comments about the participation and content of that meeting. Those comments indicate that this dialogue is not as much a Track Two as a high-level
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