Events
Upcoming Events
"Arctic Front, Arctic Homeland: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North"
Alarmism and paranoia are rampant in the southern Canadian media when it comes to the need to defend the Canadian Arctic. But Canadian interests in the North are ill-served by politicians and nationalists who fuel a flag-waving fervor instead of pursuing concrete policies in the circumpolar world. The twentieth century demonstrated how government reactions to sovereignty "crises" ensured that the North remained Canadian, but national (in)action failed to serve Northerners' interests or to provide sustainable development. If Canada wants to seize opportunities and take a leadership role in a rapidly evolving circumpolar world, we need to adopt a 3-D approach rooted in defence, diplomacy and development. Modest monitoring and enforcement capabilities, diplomacy, and local capacity-building initiatives must all go hand in hand to make the North more Canadian, and Canada more northern.
Whitney Lauckenbauer (CIC Fellow on Arctic Sovereignty)
September 18, 2008
Lecture will be held at CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo
October 8th -President of the University of Ottawa and Former Ambassador Allan Rock will give a lecture at CIGI
- - More details to follow
Past Events
"Managing Transitions: Shaping Foreign Policy for Canada's Century"
Senator Hugh Segal, CIC's Executive Vice-Chair
CIGI Food for Thought
Monday, June 9th, 2008 - 11:4am to 1:00pm
Seagram Room at CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo
Info and Registration: http://www.igloo.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://hughsegaljune.eventbrite.com/
"Reporting the World to Canadians: Foreign Correspondents' Roundtable"
CBC's Rick MacInnes-Rae, CTV's Tom Clark and Lisa LaFlamme, Toronto Star's Olivia Ward, and Macleans' Michael Petrou.
CIC-CIGI Public Panel
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 7:00 to 9:00pm
Atrium at CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo
Info and Registration: http://www.igloo.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mediapanel1.eventbrite.com/
*CIC Media Dinner*
Private dinner for CIC members with our special guests.
Seagram Room at CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo - 5:30 to 7:00pm
CIC-Waterloo Region Annual General Meeting
Guest Speaker: Ambassador Jorge Heine, CIGI and Wilfrid Laurier University
Reception, Lecture and Election of 2008-09 Executive Committee
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - 6:00 to 8:00pm
Feburary 5, 2008: Professor Sven Biscop, visiting professor at the College of Europe, Belgium, "The EU and the European Security Strategy." Click here for a video of the event.
January 30, 2007: Professor Mark Sedra, CIGI and University of Waterloo, Canada and "The Search for Security in Afghanistan." Click here for a video of the event.
December 1 - 2, 2007: Conference and dinner commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty Banning Landmines, Special keynote speaker: The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Officer of the Order of Canada and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Click here for the promotional poster.
November 23, 2007, 12:00pm: Chris W. J. Roberts, The Canadian Council on Africa, "At the Tipiing Point: Canada's Pivotal Role in Africa." Click here for the promotional poster.
November 8, 2007, 7:00pm: Dr. Robert Bothwell, Professor of History, University of Toronto, "Is There a Canadian Foreign Policy Tradition?"
November 1, 2007, 7:00pm: Major-General Tim Grant, commander of Task Force Afghanistan, "Reflections of a Senior Commander in Afghanistan". Click here for his biography and here for the promotional poster.
October 22, 2007: Dr. Thomas Zeiler, Professor of History, University of Colorado, "America, the World and the World Series". Click here for the promotional poster.
June 26, 2007: CIC-Waterloo Annual General Meeting, featuring Eric Helleiner, author and CIGI Fellow, "Towards North American Monetary Union".
March 22, 2007: Peter Boehm, Canadian Ambassador to the OAS, "Canada in North America: Thoughts on Relationships Old and New".
February 28, 2007: Michael Bell, Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, "Is There a Jerusalem Solution?".
December 17-19, 2006: "Afghanistan: Transition Under Threat" (conference).
December 18: Chris Alexander, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, "Why Are We There: Putting Canada's Mission into Perspective".
November 9, 2006: Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, "Into the Long War: Contemporary Threats to International Peace and Security".
October 23, 2006: Craig Murphy, Professor, Wellesley College, "The History of the UNDP: Lessons for UN Reform".
September 27, 2006: Mokhtar Lamani, Representative of the Arab League, "Inside truths from Inside Baghdad".
June 27, 2006: John Milloy, Liberal MP, "How the West Was Nearly One: Canada, NATO's Early Years and the Quest for an Atlantic Community". Click here for a summary.
January 30, 2006: Marie Bernard-Meunier, "Germany's Role in the Integration of Europe".
November 15, 2005: Michael Bell, Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, "Iraq: Does it Have a Future?".
November 3, 2005: Robert Fatton, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, "Democratization in Haiti: The Fall of Aristide and Haiti's Current Predicament".
October 4, 2005: Victoria Bawtree, Charles Weitz and Hans Dall, representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Why is There Still Hunger?".
September 23, 2005: John MacArthur, Deputy Director of the UN Millennium Development Project, "Ending Poverty: What Canada Can Do".
May 12-14, 2005: "Canada in Afghanistan: Assessing the 3D Approach" (conference)
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