Participants
Dr. Michael MacKinnon is a graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (BA, Hons, 1993) and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (DES 1996, PhD 2005). He has lectured in the political science departments of three different Halifax-based universities since 2002 and is a research fellow at Dalhousie University’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. In 2006-07, MacKinnon was a member of the Peace Dividend Trust consulting team tasked to produce a Mission Start-Up field guide for the United Nations’ Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). In addition, MacKinnon worked in the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the advance mission, UNAMIS. He has held positions with the DPKO in New York, the Canadian Mission to the UN in New York, the UN’s disarmament research institute (UNIDIR) in Geneva and served as a political consultant to the Republic of Korea’s mission to the UN in Geneva.
Dr. Ann Griffiths currently teaches part-time in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. She is also the publications editor for the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research interests are peacebuilding, democratization, human rights, federalism and security.
Dr. David Black is Professor of International Development Studies and Political Science at Dalhousie University, and is currently the Chair of the Department of IDS. He has served on the Executive Council of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS), as well as its Co-Director, and is on the Executive of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID). His current research focuses primarily on Canada’s role(s) in Sub-Saharan Africa, including developmental, security, investment, and diplomatic dimensions. His research and publications have also focused on human rights in Canadian and South African foreign policies, the “new” South Africa in Africa, and Sport and World Politics.