Winter 2006 Topic: Geopolitics and Global Demographics Open: Jan. 24th to March 31st.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (FAC), through its Strategic Policy branch, is looking to engage students across the country to provide their views on a range of foreign policy issues through our online discussion group.
We foresee three ways in which classes could participate in the eDiscussions:
I. Policy Positition Papers:
We're asking classes from across the country to help frame the eDiscussion by providing us with a policy position paper on the discussion topic which we will post online in our resource section.
Classes prepare policy position papers to the Department, up to 750 words, on the eDiscussion topic outlining policy options for the government. We have provided a policy position paper template as a model for formatting policy position papersubmissions.
The paper will represent the class.
In late February, they will be posted on the Canadian International Policy Internet siteas a resource for the eDiscussion.
At the end of each eDiscussion, the submissions are summarized by our staff. This summary is then circulated within Foreign Affairs whose topic experts draft a reply which is posted on the website.
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We're asking classes from across the country to help frame the eDiscussion by providing us with a policy position paper on the discussion topic which we will post online in our resource section. 