4 April 2007

Darfur's Spreading Genocide

Michael Petrou, Maclean's

12:30-2:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

28 February 2007

The Ethics of Intelligence

Angela Gendron, Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs

2:30-4:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

* Co-Sponsored with the Centre on Values and Ethic (COVE), Carleton University and the Canadian Centre on Intelligence and Security Studies

26 February 2007

Canadians are from Venus, Australians are from Mars: Comparing Canadian and Australian Relations with the United States

Brendon O'Connor, Griffith University (Australia)

4:30-6:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

Click here for a copy of the paper on which the talk is based.

2 February 2007

Gunning for the Globe: The International Battle Over Small Arms Control

Clifford Bob, Duquesne University

12:30-2:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

11 January 2007

Mission Impossible 6: The Outcome of the Bioweapons Conference and Its Implications

Jez Littlewood, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton (UK)

12:30-2:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

* Co-Sponsored with the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance

8 January 2007

Canadian Military Intervention in Failed States: Lessons From Somalia

Grant Dawson, Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Carleton University

4:30-6:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

This event coincides with the publication of Grant Dawson's new book, ‘Here is Hell: Canada's Engagement in Somalia’ (Univeristy of British Columbia Press).

17 November 2006

The Territorial Order of the International System: How Borders Are Drawn

Hein Goemans, University of Rochester

3:00-4:30, Room 1318, Dunton Tower

Click here for a copy of the paper on which the talk is based.

1 November 2006

Making the Democratic Republic of Congo Safe: MONUC and the robust use of force in UN Peacekeeping Operations

Carol McQueen

Foreign Affairs Canada

12:30-2:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

23 October 2006

Two Faces of Reconciliation: The Case of Post-War Sierra Leone

Laura Stovel, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

12:30-2:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

19 October 2006

The Chemical Weapons Convention

Don Neill, Directorate of Arms and Proliferation Control Policy, Department of National Defence

12:30-2:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

* Co-Sponsored with the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance

16 October 2006

Transatlantic Security and German Views of US International Security Policies

Karsten Voigt

Coordinator for German-American Security Cooperation, German Foreign Ministry

2:30-4:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

* Co-sponsored with the Carleton University Centre for European Studies and the Institute of European and Russian Studies

10 October 2006

Roles, Relationships and Rapport among NGOs and the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan

Kevin McCort, Senior Vice-President, International Operations, CARE Canada

12:30-2:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

25 September 2006

Preventing and Resolving Conflict: How to Build Peace

Sir Emyr Jones Parry, UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations

10:30-12:00, Room A602, Leob Hall

* Co-Sponsored with the Carleton University Political Science Department

20 September 2006

The Hezbollah War

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Director, Center for Democratic Studies, University of Haifa

10:00-11:30, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

Click here for a copy of the paper on which the talk is based.

18 September 2006

Alternative Outcomes to the Battle of Coral Sea

Michael Armstrong, Sprott School of Business and Michael Powell, History Department, Carleton University

12:30-2:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

2 June 2006

Understanding NATO Military Transformation

Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope

Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

8:30am-10:00am, Room 303, Paterson Hall

18 April 2006

Canada-US Security Cooperation: A Briefing on the Final Report of the Canada-US Bi-National Planning Group

Capt(N) Richard Bergeron (Canada) & Capt Pamela McClune (US), Co-Directors of the Bi-National Planning Group

11:00-12:00, Room 1318, Dunton Tower

6 April 2006

The Current Situation in Iraq and the Prospects for the Future

Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada

3:30-5:00, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

31 March 2006

The Value for Canada of Canada-Australia-New Zealand Collaboration at the United Nations

Allan Rock, Canada's Ambassador to the UN

10:30-12:00, Algonquin Room, 111 Sussex Drive, Foreign Affairs Canada

Co-Sponsored by the Australian High Commission, Ottawa, and Foreign Affairs Canada

28 March 2006

The Recent Palestinian Elections: Were They Free and Fair?"

Corey Levine, International Alert

12:00-1:30, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

2 March 2006

DDR in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The UN Operational Experience

Brigadier-General Jan-Gunnar Isberg, Swedish Armed Forces, Former-Deputy Force Commander, MUNOC

12:00-1:30, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

RSVP Required; Co-Sponsored by the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre

14 February 2006

The Military Training Assistance Programme: A Key Instrument in Canada's Defence Diplomacy

Andrew P. Rasiulis, Director, MTAP, Department of National Defence

13 December 2005

Effective Intervention in Failing States: Some Lessons from the South Pacific

Murray Harris, Executive Officer, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

12:00-1:30, Room 1318, Dunton Tower

RSVP Required; Co-Sponsored by the Australian High Commission, Ottawa

6 December 2005

The Status of the US-Canada Bi-National Planning Group

Captain (N) Richard Bergeron, Canadian Navy & Kendall L. Card, United States Navy, Co-Directors of the Bi-National Planning Group

11:30-12:30, Room 303, Paterson Hall

5 December 2005

Post-Presidential Election Iranian Foreign Policy: New Direction or New Posturing?"

Mahmood Sariolghalam, Associate Professor of International Relations, National University of Iran and Director, Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies, Tehran

10-11:30 am, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Centre on Treaty Compliance

‘Perspectives of a Canadian Defence Attaché to the USA – Post 9-11’

24 November 2005

Rear-Admiral

Ian Mack, Chief of Staff, Materiel Group, DNDHQ and Former-Canadian Defence Attaché to Washington

11:30-1:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

16 November 2005

Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era: Canada and North America

Elinor Sloan, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

10:00-11:30, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

11 November 2005

After Disengagement: Prospects for Peace in the Middle East

Aluf Benn, Diplomatic Editor, Ha'aretz

12:30-2:00, Room 240, Tory Building

Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Friends for Peace Now, Political Science Department, School of Journalism and COVE

4 November 2005

European Security and Defence Policy and Transatlantic Relations

Michael Schäfer, Political Director, German Foreign Ministry

10:00-11:30, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

Co-Sponsored by the Centre for European Studies

Ambassador Paul Meyer, Canadian Permanent Representative to the UN for Disarmament Office of the United Nations, Geneva

Current Challenges For Disarmament Diplomacy: A Canadian Perspective

12:00-1:30, Room 2017, Dunton Tower (Pre-registration required)

Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Centre on Treaty Compliance

31 October 2005

The UN at 60: Improvements and Challenges

Peter Wallensteen, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

4:30-6:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

27 October 2005

Banning Landmines: Challenges of Implementing the Ottawa Convention

Kerry Brinkert, Manager, Anti-Personnel Landmine Convention Implementation Support Unit,
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining

11:30-1:00, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

Co-Sponsored by the Canadian Centre on Treaty Compliance

25 October 2005

China's Rise: Problems and Prospects

Leigh Sarty, Canadian Embassy, Beijing

11:00-12:30, Room 1419, Dunton Tower

7 October 2005

Failed States in a Time of Terror

Robert I. Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution Harvard University

1:00-2:30, Room 2017, Dunton Tower

Co-Sponsored by COVE

21 September 2005

Between Iraq and Palestine: Israel's Fateful Choices

Asher Susser, Director, Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies

Tel Aviv University

3:00-4:30, Room 215, Tory Building

24 March 2005

From the Balkans to Iraq: NATO in Operations

LCol. Pierre Trudel, Deputy Branch Chief of NATO Current Operations

22 March 2005

Water Wars? Conflict and Cooperation Over Transboundary Water

Shlomi Dinar, Department of International Relations, Florida International University

21 March 2005

The Geneva Conventions and Civilian War Deaths: An Empirical Analysis

Benjamin Valentino, Department of Government, Dartmouth College

8 March 2005

NATO: An Alliance in Transformation

Jean-Pierre Ollivier, Canadian Delegation to NATO

17 February 2005

Terrorism and the Muslim World

Dr Farhang Rajaee

Department of Political Science, Carleton University

14 February 2005

Confronting Afghanistan's Security Dilemma

Mark Sedra, Cadiuex Léger Fellow, Policy Research Division, Foreign Affairs Canada

24 November 2003

Romanian Security and Intelligence Reform

Dr Larry Watts

19 November 2003

The Politics of Doing Business with Armed Force

Madelaine Drohan

5 November 2003

Canadian Military in Afghanistan: Past, Present, and Future

Lt General MacDonald

28 October 2003

Security Challenges in Africa

Ambassador Sam Bassey Ibok

14 October 2003

The Road Map to Peace: Where to From Here?

Dr Mira Sucharov

January 2003

21st Century Strategic Environment Symposium: Rethinking Intervention

Prof. David Carment

12 February 2001

Going Ballistic About National Missile Defence

Professor Jim Fergusson, University of Manitoba

17 November 2000

Unearthing the Truth: The Role of a Guatemalan Forensic

Gabriela Santos

14 November 2000

The New NATO

Jean Pierre Ollivier, NATO Office of Information and Press, Brussels

27 October 2000

NATO - Ukraine Relations After Madrid

Natalie Melnyczuk Gould, Head, NATO Information and Documentation Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine

24 October 2000

Prospects for Peace in the Middle East: Current Developments

Professor Barry Rubin, Senior Resident Scholar, BESA Centre

13 October 2000

Strengthening European Defence Cooperation

Richard Codrington, UK Deputy High Commissioner to Canada

Stéphane Romatet, French Deputy Ambassador to Canada

3 October 2000

Current Issues in European Security

François Heisbourg, Chairman, Geneva Centre for Security Policy & Former Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies

14 February 2000

Information in War and Emergencies: Who Really Commands the High Ground?

Nik Gowing, Correspondent, BBC World News

4 February 2000

Nuclear Weapons in Canada-US Bilateral Relations: The Untold Story

Dr John M. Clearwater, Chief Editor, Arms Control Reporter

31 January 2000

Human Rights in Conflict Resolution

Dr Edward Kaufman, Director, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace,

Hebrew University

Pr. Romano Prodi

My Vision of Europe

President of the European Commission

16 December 1999

10 November 1999

Cyprus: The Goal of Reunification and Membership to the European Union

Erato Kozakou Marcoulis, High Commissioner of Cyprus to Canada

16 November 1999

Foreign Policy Decision-Making: How it Does (Not) Work in Canada

Michael Pearson, Former Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-97)

28 October 1999

The UN in Kosovo Affairs

Professor Inis L. Claude, University of Virginia

27 October 1999

Confidence Building in the Middle East Peace Process: The Missing Link

Professor Gerald Steinberg, Director, Program on Conflict Resolution, Bar Ilan University, Israel

12 October 1999

Current Issues of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea

Cha Jong, Institute for International Affairs, Pyongyang, DPRK

Ri Song Man, Institute for International Affairs, Pyongyang, DPRK

Ri Kwang Nam, DPRK Mission to the United Nations

24 September 1999

NATO: Then and Now

Dr Richard Kugler, Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for National Strategic Studies

National Defense University,Washington, D.C.

14 January 1999

Issues in Trans-Atlantic Security: The Changing Environment

Dr Roland Wegener, Deputy Secretary-General, Western European Union

19 January 1999

NATO at Fifty

Dr John Barrett, Senior Political Officer, NATO Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium

2 February 1999

Apres Sadam - le Deluge? Speculations on Post-Saddam Iraq

Dr Jim Moore, Strategic Defence Analyst, Directorate of Strategic Analysis, Department of National Defence

Ottawa, Canada

7 October 1998

Kurdish Autonomy: This Time It Will Be Different

Mr. Michael Austrian, former American diplomat

Ottawa, Canada

20 October 1998

German Security and Defence Policy After the Elections

Dr Peter Schmidt, Head, European Transatlantic Security Policy,
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany

21 October 1998

Middle East and Terrorism

Yehudit Barsky, Associate Scholar, Middle East Council,
Foreign Policy Research Institute, New York, USA

27 October 1998

Turkish Security Issues

H. E. Osman Oclay, former Turkish Foreign Minister and former Turkish Ambassador to the UN and NATO

27 October 1998

Democratic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

Dr Otmar Holl, Director, Austrian Institute for International Affairs,
Laxenburg, Austria

3 November 1998

Asia Crisis or Global Crisis?

Professor Manfred Bienefeld, School of Public Administration,

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

12 November 1998

Current Challenges Facing the Arab World

Dr Hussein Hassouna, Permanent Representative to the UN, League of Arab States

19 November 1998

The United Nations and the Dilemmas of Peace Enforcement

Dr Jane Boulden, Centre for International Relations, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

23 November 1998

Terms of Peace: Justice and Security When Wars End

Dr Brian Orend

24 November 1998

Gender and Security: The Politics of Peacekeeping

Dr Sandra Whitworth, York University, Toronto, Canada

27 November 1998

The OSCE in the Post-Soviet Region

Dr Natalie Mychajlyszyn, NPSIA, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

3 December 1998

Challenge and Commitment: The Looming Costs of NATO Expansion in the 21st Century

Dr Erika Simpson, Department of Political Science

University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

4 December 1998

Democracy, Structural Autonomy and Foreign Security Policy: Peacemaking After World War II

Dr Norrin Ripsman, Mershon Center

Ohio State University, Columbus, USA