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GLOBALIZATION |  Interview with Stein Tønnesson, director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.
Stein Tønnesson discusses peacebuilding as a part of development strategies, the topic of energy and conflict, and the conflict over the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in the Danish newspaper in September 2005. l LEARN MORE |
NON-PROLIFERATION, ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT |  Interview with Yoshi Kawasaki, director of the Canada-Asia Program at Simon Fraser University.
Yoshi Kawasaki discusses the common values shared by Canada and Japan, and the cooperation between the two countries in the field of disarmament. l LEARN MORE
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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM |  Interview with Nicole Evans, Acting Senior Program Manager of Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
Nicole Evans discusses the implications of nuclear and radiological security in the context of the Former Soviet Union. l LEARN MORE |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | | Implications of nuclear and radiological security in the context of the Former Soviet Union | Nicole Evans, Acting Senior Program Manager of Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada | David Caskey discusses his dedication to the objectives of protecting nuclear facilities and the monitoring of the delivery of equipment for the Nuclear and Radiological Security project within the Global Partnership Program | David Caskey, Physical Protection Systems Specialist for Gregg Services (Raytheon Canada Limited) | The five function of security (Deter, detect, assess, delay, and respond) and technical aspects of ensuring the security of a nuclear facility | David Foster, Physical Protection Technical Specialist for Utility Security (Raytheon Canada Limited)
| | Types of security improvements | Mark Ling, Nuclear Security Advisor for the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, as well as for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | Canadian cooperation in strengthening physical security at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute | Sergei Morozov, Director of Security Services for International Safe Transit Association
| The 'human factor' and security objectives of the physical protection work at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute | Sergei Postnov, Chief of Security Services at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
| Operations of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute and Canada's contribution to upgrading the physical protection of the WRM reactor | Sergei Smolsky, Deputy Director of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
| | Global Partnership Program - Overview | Troy Lulashnyk, Director General of the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada | Destruction of chemical weapons - Overview | Allan Poole, Senior Coordinator of the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada from 2002 to 2006 | | Dismantlement of Nuclear Submarines - Overview | Michael Washer, Senior Project Officer of the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
| | Nuclear and Radiological Security - Overview | Nicole Evans, Acting Senior Program Manager of the Global Partnership Program at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
| | Redirection of Former Weapons Scientists - Overview | Leo Owsiacki, Deputy Executive Director, Global Security and Strategic Planning department, ISTC (Russia) |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | Common values shared by Canada and Japan and cooperation between the two countries in the field of disarmament | Yoshi Kawasaki, director of the Canada-Asia Program at Simon Fraser University | Canada's historical involvement in issues of disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control, achievements in non-proliferation and risks related to terrorism | Jocelyn Coulon, director of the Réseau francophone de recherche sur les opérations de paix at the Université de Montréal.
| U.S. policy on the Middle East and role that countries like Canada can play in coming up with new ideas that have an impact on the international scene | Steven Spiegel, professor of political science at UCLA | Evolving threat of nuclear weapons, realities of chemical and biological weapons and nuclear counter-proliferation | Bruce Bennett, senior analyst at RAND Corporation | Emergence of China as a player in multinational institutions, implications of the U.S. approach to India’s nuclear program and China's delicate balancing act | Paul Evans, Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada | Global pressures and emerging fault lines, role of middle powersthe future of institution building and the problem with the NPT | Arthur Stein, professor of international relations at the University of California, Los Angeles | China's "Peaceful Rise", areas of common interests between Canada, the U.S. and China, and the modernization of China's military | Charles Wolf Jr., Senior economic advisor in international economics at the RAND Corporation | International communities major non-proliferation challenges and roles that the UN play | Bruno Gruselle, Senior policy analyst at the "Fondation pour la recherche stratégique" in Paris, France | Post Cold War international institution building, norms in warfare and taboos against the use of weapons | Richard Price, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia | Canada’s role in disarmament forums, importance of diplomacy and challenges facing the international community In the 21st-century | Charles-Philippe David, Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal
| General weakening of non-proliferation and reality of the international community’s influence in the area of disarmament | Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director of IRIS (Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques), Paris | International nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, Canada’s priorities and goals in promoting disarmament and arms control | Wade Huntley, Director of the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research | Treaty compliance and global verification systems for WMDs | Trevor Findlay, Director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance at Carleton University | Shift in the nuclear doctrine, the role Canada can play in working toward a future without nuclear weapons | Xavier Renou, head of the Greenpeace France nuclear disarmament campaign | | Recommendations of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission | Hans Blix, Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission and former chief weapons inspector in Iraq | Disarmament, peacekeeping and distinction between U.S. and UN led operations
| James Dobbins, Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND Corporation | Elimination of child soldiers and small arms
| Lieutenant-General The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret.), Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general. Dallaire served as Force Commander of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) | Control Arms Campaign and threat small arms pose on global security | Robert Fox, Executive Director of Oxfam Canada | | Political violence, risk of nuclear war and reality of the demand for small arms | Andrew Mack, Director of the Human Security Centre at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia | | Problem of nuclear weapons, deterrence rather than disarmament and threat of isolationism | Douglas Ross, Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University
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 MONITORING AND REPORTING ON VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN IN WAR - Feature Issue |
| Topic | Interviewed subject | Resolution 1612, the need to prevent, monitor and punish, and importance of international cooperation. | Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict | | Girl soldiers in fighting forces | Susan MacKay, Professor at University of Wyoming
| | Child soldiers and abductions in Uganda | Geoffrey Oyat, Head of Child Protection with Save the Children Uganda | Criminalization of child recruitment and involvement in armed conflict | Jaap Doek, Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on Rights of the Child
| | Reporting mechanism, Canada's leadership and challenges facing the international community | Kathy Vandergrift, Coordinator of the Working Group on Children in Armed Conflict |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | | Progress that has been made in Afghanistan in the last few years | Dr. M. Ishaq Nadiri, Professor of Economics at NYU and an economic advisor to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
| | Canada's support to the Afghanistan Compact | David Sproule, Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan
| | Canada's involvement in Afghanistan | Chris Alexander, former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan | | Key issues in Afghan security | Mark Sedra, Security Specialist and former Cadieux-Léger fellow | | Post-war explosives disposal | Chantal Tétrault, part of the Second Regiment of Engineers in the Canadian Forces | | Human rights violations in Afghanistan | Jasteena Dhillon, Program coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Kabul, Afghanistan | | Capacity building of women NGO's and grassroots-level groups | Roya Rahmani, Project coordinator for the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights and Democracy) | Mainstreaming gender across the Afghan government | Tonita Murray, Gender adviser to the Ministry of Interior in Afghanistan | | Development of the private sector | Karim Khoja, C.E.O. of Rochan, the largest cellphone provider in Afghanistan |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | | Global demographics and implications for Canada | Joseph Chamie, Director of research at the Center for Migration Studies in New York. Previously, he was the director of the United Nations Population Division | Challenges of international migration | Victor Piché, Professor at the University of Montréal in the Department of Demography. | Impact of international migration on developing countries | Abdoulaye Gueye, Undergraduate supervisor for the International Development and Globalization programme at the University of Ottawa
| Significance of demographic patterns and attitudes toward foreign policy | William Hogg, Professor and Research associate with the University of Montreal-McGill Research Group in International Security (REGIS) | Challenges of collecting and analysing demographic data | Simona Bignami, Assistant professor at the University of Montréal in the Department of Demography | Challenges and objectives of migration and demography in society | Luc Legoux, Assistant demography professor at Université Paris 1 in Paris, France
| Global demographics, immigration to Canada and related issues | Jean-Louis Roy, President of Rights and Democracy
| Emergence of China and its demographic issues | Oded Shenkar, Fellow of Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management as well as a Professor of Management & Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. | Understanding international relations: realism and the world | John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago
| | Impact of demographics on geopolitics | David Haglund, Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | | Concept of security | Barry Buzan, Professor of international relations at the London School of Economics | Working in war zones | Chris Cushing, Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Co-operation and Security at the University of Bradford, UK | Canada-US security issues | Stéphane Roussel, Professor at the Department of Political Science and holds the Canada Research Chair in Foreign and Canadian Defence Policy at the Université du Québec à Montréal | Security and multilateralism | Nelson Michaud, Professor of international relations and Associate Director of the Groupe d'études, de recherche et de formation internationales (GERFI) at L'École Nationale d'Administration Publique in Quebec City | New security paradigm | Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK | Canada, US and security | James Lindsay, Director of Studies and Vice President of the Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Topic | Interviewed subject | UN reform
| Jennifer Welsh, Canadian citizen who has been living in the UK for the past 5 years and teaches international relations at Oxford University | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Jacqueline Best, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Ottawa | World Bank (WB) | Dane Rowlands, Associate Director at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University | Human security and human rights | Judith Kumin, United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representative in Canada | World Health Organization (WHO) | Obijiofor Aginam, Professor of International Law at Carleton University. |
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