Welcome to the 2021 Year Ahead!
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Opening of the Conference
Speakers
Prof. Stephen M. Saideman, CDSN Director
Stephen Saideman holds the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and is the Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network. Prof. Saideman has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Sciences Research Council. The former placed on the Bosnia desk of the Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate of US Joint Staff for a year, and the latter facilitated research in Japan. He taught previously at the University of Vermont, Texas Tech University, and at McGill University. He writes online at Political Violence at a Glance, Duck of Minerva and his own site (saideman.blogspot.com). He has won awards for teaching, for mentoring other faculty, for public engagement, and for his blogging on international studies. He is currently working on the role of legislatures in civil-military relations in many democracies around the world. He tweets at @smsaideman, and co-hosts the Battle Rhythm podcast with Stéfanie von Hlatky.
Prof. Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy, NPSIA Director
Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy is a Professor of international affairs and currently the Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA). He joined NPSIA in 2003 and since then has taught graduate courses in development economics, international trade, macroeconomics, development assistance and quantitative methods.
China vs. Everybody: New Way Forward
Moderator: Dr. Stephen M. Saideman
Dr. Roland Paris: Responding to the China Challenge
Dr. Dawn Murphy: Current Trends in China's International Relations
Mr. Cesar Jarmillo: Diplomatic posturing or genuine multilateralism? What to make of China joining the Arms Trade Treaty
Dr. Roland Paris
Roland Paris is a professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Professor Paris holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in Political Science. He was a Global Affairs and Defence Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister from 2015-16. His research focuses on international security, peacebuilding and foreign policy.
Dr. Dawn Murphy
Dawn Murphy is an Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the Air War College. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University. Previously, she was a post doctorate research fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. Her research interests focus on Chinese foreign and domestic policy and international relations.
Mr. Cesar Jaramillo
Cesar Jaramillo is the Executive Director of Project Ploughshares. He holds an MA in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo. Previously, he held a fellowship at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is an international civil society representative that spoke to the UN General Assembly, and the UN Conference on Disarmament notably.
Make Masks Great Again: Health and Security at Home and Abroad
Dr. Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot
Moderator
Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot is a professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Alberta. She has worked with the Calgary Police Service and received funding from Alberta Justice for a project on GPS Electronic Monitoring. Her research interests focus on risk balance, security, domestic terrorism, and law enforcement.
Dr. Jonathan Luckhurst: Transversal Challenges of COVID-19 for Networked G20 Governance
Dr. Srikanth Kondreddy: International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) Compliance for Regional Health Security in the Caribbean region
Dr. Christopher Afoke Isike: Electoral democracy, bad governance and public health in Africa
Mr. Winston Dookeran: Pandemics as Global Political Stress Tests
Dr. Andy Knight: Subsidiarity Governance and 21st century Health Security
Dr. Jonathan Luckhurst
Jonathan Luckhurst is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Peace Studies of Soka University in Tokyo. A British academic with a doctorate from the University of Essex, he participates in the Group of Twenty’s (G20) official Think 20 engagement forum and currently is part of its COVID-19 Task Force, presenting proposals to the G20 as coordinating author of the collaborative policy brief Transversal G20 Response to COVID-19: Global Governance for Economic, Social, Health, and Environmental Resilience.
Dr. Srikanth Kondreddy
Srikanth Kondreddy is an Investigator at the Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa, and a Senior Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity in Ottawa. He also teaches at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Christopher Afoke Isike
Christopher Afoke Isike is a professor of African Politics, African Development and International Relations at the University of Pretoria. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Professor Isike consults for the United Nations on gender equality and women empowerment.
Mr. Winston Dookeran
Winston Dookeran is professor of Practice at the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean, the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at The University of the West Indies. He holds a Masters in economics from the London School of Economics. Previously, he was the Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997-2002 and was appointed Minister of Finance from 2010-12 as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012-2015.
Dr. Andy Knight
Andy Knight is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Professor Knight holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from York University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of the Harry Jerome Trailblazer Award from the Black Business Professional Association of Canada. His research interests focus on global security and governance and international organizations.
12:00-12:45 Keynote Speaker: Ms. Jacqueline O’Neil , Ambassador Women Peace and Security
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Jacqueline O’Neill was appointed as Canada’s first Ambassador for Women, Peace, and security. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she supported policy frameworks and strategies for NATO, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as well as for the UN. She advised the Canadian Government from 2011-2017 on national action plans for women, peace and security initiatives.
Moderator: Dr. Beth Woroniuk is the coordinator for the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada in Ottawa
Dr. Brenda O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University
Dr. Brenda O’Neill was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs on Oct. 1, 2020. She also holds a position as Professor in the Department of Political Science.
Her research addresses several topics including political behaviour and gender and politics, focused largely on Canada. Her most recent research has examined gender and party leadership and the role of feminist identification in shaping support for sovereignty among women in Quebec. She has held several SSHRC grants and recently held the Thelma Margaret Horte Fellowship in Women and Society at the University of Calgary. Between 2017 to 2020, she served as English-language editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Diversity Fireside Chat
Ms. Beth Woroniuk
Moderator
Beth Woroniuk is the coordinator for the Women, Peace and Security Network-Canada in Ottawa. She holds a Master’s in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked with the UN and a multitude of NGOs to advance gender equality and women’s rights. Her expertise focuses on conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and sexual violence in conflict.
Lieutenant-Commander Bill Shead (Ret’d)
Bill Shead is a retired Lieutenant-Commander and a member of the Peguis First Nation. He is a graduate of Dalhousie University and of the Canadian Forces Staff College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and Governor of the Manitoba Division of the Canadian Corp of Commissionaires. Previously, he was Mayor of Selkirk, Manitoba, and has worked extensively with Indigenous communities throughout Canada.
Sgt. Karen Pelletier
Originally from the Musqua family of Keeseekoose First Nation, Treaty 4 Territory and the Pelletier family, originally from the Neyhiwah Territory and Metis homelands. Educated and raised in my peoples' way and with our history. Attended SK Indian Federated College, Regina, SK. Employed with Regina Police Service as Communications Dispacher, then as Cultural Relations Officer. While serving at RPS, I participated in the implementation of the Employment Equity Program; developed and assisted with the implementation of an aggressive recruitment strategy of Indigenous persons that resulted in a 4% application participation to jump to 24% within the first year; developed, assisted and sat on the RPS Chief of Police's Visible Minority and Aborignal Advisory Committee; cooperatively with the RCMP and Saskatoon Police Service developed and delivered Aborignal Members.
Mr. Artur Wilcynski
Artur Wilcynski is the Associate Deputy Chief of Signals Intelligence at the Communications Security Establishment. He holds a Master’s in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Previously, he worked as Ambassador at the Embassy of Canada to Norway from 2014-2018 and was a Director General at Public Safety and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.
Greyzone Warfare: How the Putin Playbook is Going Mainstream
Dr. Leah West
Moderator
Leah West is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Leah practices, studies and publishes in the field of national security law. She completed her SJD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2020; her research explored the application of criminal, constitutional and international law to state conduct in cyberspace. Leah regularly lectures and engages with the media on her areas of research interest, she is the National Administrator of the Canadian National Rounds of the Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot, and is Counsel with Friedman Mansour LLP.
Dr. Philippe Dufort
Philippe Dufort is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is an associate researcher at the Colombian Superior School of War and acted as associate Editor at the Cambridge Review of International Affairs from 2009-2013. His research interests focus on military and strategic affairs, strategic innovation, capitalism and post-capitalism studies.
Dr. Marina Miron
Marina Miron is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Military Ethics at King’s College London. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. She previously taught courses related to intelligence, counternarcotic and strategic studies at the NATO school in Oberammergau, Germany, and at the Colombian War College in Bogota. Dr. Miron is fluent in Spanish, German and Russian, near fluent in Ukrainian and can read Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish.
Dr. Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Isabelle Duyvesteyn is a professor of International Studies and Global History at Leiden University’s Institute for History. She holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London. Previously, she worked at the Netherlands Institute for International Relation and at the Royal Military Academy in the Netherlands. Her research interests focus on conflict studies, intelligence, foreign policy, and counterterrorism