Canada’s Emerging Critical Mineral and Metal Diplomacy

September 25, 2025 - 5:00pm

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Presented by CIPS, IPEN, the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy & the Hyman Soloway Chair on Business and Trade Law, and part of the “Canada’s …

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy After Eight Years: What Have We Learned So Far?

September 29, 2025 - 3:30pm

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Presented by CIPS, the Gender, Peace, and Development Research Network (GPD-RN), the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security and the Group of 78

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) was announced in 2017, followed by several …

War Preparedness and Total Defence

October 8, 2025 - 12:00pm

Presented by CIPS

In the recent decade, concepts such as ‘comprehensive’ or ‘total’ defence have returned in the Nordic and Baltic regions. Undoubtedly, the re-emergence of these whole-of-society approaches to national defence have been triggered by ‘exogenous shocks’ such as …

Redefining Development in the New World Disorder: Harnessing AI and Innovative Finance to Reach the Sustainable Development Goals

October 10, 2025 - 8:30am

Presented by the Group of 78, CIPS and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

This conference is taking place against a backdrop of considerable economic and political turmoil and increasing uncertainty. Wars in the Middle East, Ukraine, the Sudan, and …

Rereading the State from Below in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility: Burkina Faso, Haiti, and Lebanon

October 20, 2025 - 10:00am

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Presented by CIPS and the Gender, Peace, and Development Research Network (GPD-RN)

It is widely recognized that the state cannot be understood solely through the lens of powerful actors, and that it is also necessary to …

Creative Dissent: A Politician’s Struggle for Peace

October 23, 2025 - 4:00pm

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Presented by Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament and the Centre for International Policy Studies

Join us for an award presentation by Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament (CLND) to the Hon. Douglas Roche O.C. for Distinguished Achievement in …

Canadian Security Interests and Trump 2.0

October 24, 2025 - 9:00am

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Presented by the Canadian Pugwash Group (CPG), the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and the Outer Space Institute (OSI)

Canada is facing unprecedented security challenges in light of the actions and attitudes emanating from the second …

Indigenous Peoples and the Museum in the Indo-Pacific

November 3, 2025 - 9:00am

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Presented by CIPS, the Asian Studies Network, the Research Chair on Taiwan Studies and the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, with funding from Global Affairs Canada

This one-day conference builds on one of the five pillars …

Getting Action in World Politics

September 23, 2025 - 11:30am

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)

In Getting Action in World Politics, Seabrooke details how action in world politics centers around forms of getting noticed (projection), knowing how to play the game (interaction…

Will Global Civilization and World Order Survive the Decline of the West?

September 23, 2025 - 2:30pm

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Presented by CIPS and the Asian Studies Network (ASN)

Drawing on his new book covering 5000 years of history, Amitav Acharya shows that world order has never been the monopoly of any civilization or nation. Core foundations …

Workshop: “Saving the Furniture: Which Elements of the Multilateral System Must Be Sustained – and How?”

September 22, 2025 - 9:00am

Presented by CIPS, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

In a burning house, sometimes only part of the furniture can be saved. Today’s multilateral system faces mounting pressure from …

Strengthening the Representation of Women in Diplomacy: Challenges and Policy Solutions

September 11, 2025 - 10:00am

Presented by CIPS, the Gender, Peace, and Development Research Network and the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security

This event presents the work of the LSE IDEAS Women in Diplomacy project, which aims to improve women’s representation and leadership …

Perceptions of Canadian Northerners about Arctic Issues

September 9, 2025 - 10:00am

Take a look at the related report: The First Annual Canadian Arctic Survey

Presented by CIPS and OPSA, with MINDS funding from the Department of National Defence

Canadians have an opinion about their Arctic region but we rarely focused on …

Pole Possessions in International Relations: Status and Geopolitics in the Scrambles for Polar Pre-eminence

September 8, 2025 - 12:00pm

Presented by CIPS and International Theory Network (ITN)

In December 1911, a Norwegian flag was planted on the South Pole, by the Norwegian scientist and explorer Roald Amundsen. A century later, in August 2007, a Russian flag was planted on …