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UN Peacekeeping and the Kindleberger Trap
- Analysis
- September 27, 2021
For close to a decade, the UN has been under the double pressure of a high number of fatalities and pressure from member states to cut costs, particularly from the United States. Since 2013, the UN has not launched a new large peacekeeping mission, but large missions have been closed in Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur, Haiti, Liberia and Sierra Leone. On the African continent, four large missions remain –
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How Individuals Matter in UN Peacekeeping Human Rights Policy
- Analysis
- September 23, 2021
Debates about UN peacekeeping have increasingly come to revolve around the ‘protection of civilians’ (POC) in both policy and academic spheres. These debates are undoubtedly crucial and have important real-life consequences. At the same time, the focus on POC has been criticized for narrowing the remit of peacekeeping to ‘negative peace,’ which may succeed in reducing civilian harm but also leaves aside the question of what
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Federal Election: How the Next Government can Build a Stronger Foreign Service
- Analysis
- September 17, 2021
In the current federal election, foreign policy is getting very little attention, despite Canada’s implication in many global crises and long-standing concern from all directions about Canada’s place in the world, its image and whether or not it is “back”. But, what does rethinking Canada’s place in the world actually demand? Developing a vision for
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“C” is for Climate Platform: Grading the Major National Parties’ Climate Plan
- Analysis
- September 17, 2021
This summer may mark a potential turning point in Canada’s collective climate consciousness: In June, the country witnessed an unprecedented “heat dome” in the Western half of the country. The town of Lytton, BC, hit 49.6°C, completely shattering the country’s previous heat records. Then came the wildfires, followed by relentless crop-killing drought throughout the prairies, and smoke-filled
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