Schedule of Events: 2011-2012

    March 2012

    CSDS Speaker Series
    14

    Politics of the Trail: Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

    Oded Lowenheim
    The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

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    Time and Location TBA, Carleton University.
    Wednesday, 14 March 2012

    Conference
    1-4

    2012 Annual Carleton University Model NATO Conference

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    Delta Hotel and Suites, Ottawa
    1-4 March 2012

    February 2012

    Conference
    23

    25th Annual Conference on World Issues | Conferénce annuelle sur les questions mondiales

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    8:30-2:00, Southam Hall and Tory Building, Carleton University
    Thursday, 23 February 2012

    This annual event brings together approximately 500 students from Ottawa-Gatineau area French and English-language high schools to attend a day of workshops – twenty-one in all – on a wide range of international and security issues. For more details click on the event title above

    Workshop
    20-21

    Canada and Asia: Setting a New Policy Agenda

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    Senate Boardroom, 6th Floor, Robertson Hall, Carleton University
    Friday-Saturday, 20-21 February 2012

    Biennial Canadian Foreign Policy Journal junior scholars' workshop. This year's theme is "Canada and Asia: Setting a New Policy Agenda." Panel subjects include regional security challenges, the feasibility of developing a unified policy, and the role of formal and informal diplomacy in trans-Pacific relations. For more information contact cfpj@carleton.ca

    CSDS Speaker Series
    16

    Whispers of War, Mongers of Fear: Understanding the Origins of Threat Perception and Proliferation

    Kelly Greenhill
    Tufts University

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    4:00-5:30, Dunton Tower, Room 2017, Carleton University.
    Thursday, 16 February 2012

    Light refreshments will be provided. Advanced registration is requested by Tuesday, 14 February to csds1112greenhill.eventbrite.com or call 613.520.2600 ext. 6671.

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    CSDS Speaker Series
    9

    International Law and Public Attitudes toward Wartime Violence

    Geoffrey P.R. Wallace
    University of Kentucky

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    12:30-2:00, Alumni Boardroom, 617 Robertson Hall, Carleton University.
    Thursday, 9 February 2012

    Light sandwich lunch provided. Advanced registration requested by Monday, 6 February to csds1112wallace.eventbrite.com or call 613.520.2600 ext. 6671.

    Visitor parking is available in parking garage P9, adjacent to Robertson Hall.

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    CSDS Speaker Series
    2

    Islamic NGOs in Humanitarian Emergencies

    Valerie Percival and Mike Brison
    Carleton University

    January 2012

    CSDS Speaker Series
    24

    The Arab Spring One Year Later: Can We Do Anything?

    Ferry de Kerckhove
    Former Ambassador of Canada to Egypt

    CSDS Speaker Series
    19

    Explaining Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Occupied Poland and Ukraine

    Jeffrey Kopstein
    University of Toronto

    CSDS Speaker Series
    12

    Defence Support of Humanitarian Operations: Practice before Theory

    Richard Cohen
    Former Senior Advisor, Office of the Minister of National Defence

    December 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    5

    Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations

    Walter Dorn
    Royal Military College of Canada and Canadian Forces College

    November 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    23

    Iran's Evolving Concept of Security

    Farzin Nadimi
    York University

    CSDS Speaker Series
    16

    Environmental Conflict: The Case of the Nile Basin

    Macy Demissie
    Centre for Security and Defence Studies

    October 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    26

    Women and Terrorism

    Mia Bloom
    Pennsylvania State University

    CSDS Speaker Series
    12

    After the Arab Revolutions: First Strategic Insights

    Frédéric Charillon
    Institute for Strategic Research, Ecole Militaire, Paris

    September 2011

    CSDS Speaker Series
    28

    UN Sanctions and Conflict: Responding to Peace and Security Threats

    Andrea Charron
    Centre for Security and Defence Studies