India’s Unique Identity Scheme: Pro-poor or a corporate adventure that extends state surveillance?
USHA RAMANATHAN, Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
Presented… Read More
May 16, 2012 - 1:00 pm
Upcoming Events
Free to Worship, to Trade and to Be Secure: Why Canada and the Netherlands Must Promote Our Shared Values
*** Please note that the time has changed ***
URI ROSENTHAL, Minister of Foreign Affairs of th… Read More
May 18, 2012 - 12:30 pm
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forward
CLARE SHORT, Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Presented by the Human… Read More
September 7, 2011 - 10:00 am
Free Trade Today: The Need for a Reset Button
JAGDISH BHAGWATI, Columbia University and Council on Foreign Relations.
Presented by the G… Read More
September 14, 2011 - 4:30 pm
Ensuring Access to Counsel for the Poor in Post-Conflict Settings
NATALIE REA, International Legal Foundation
Presented by CIPS
Free. In English with a bilin… Read More
September 15, 2011 - 11:30 am
The United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
JOHN RUGGIE, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rig… Read More
September 15, 2011 - 5:30 pm
How Might We Think about Development?
DAVID MALONE, President, International Development Research Center
Presented by CIPS
Fre… Read More
September 28, 2011 - 1:00 pm
Women’s Human Rights: The Unfinished Agenda
IRENE KHAN, Former Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Presented by CIPS and the… Read More
September 29, 2011 - 3:00 pm
Human Rights, Universality and Sovereignty: The Irrelevance and Relevance of Sharia
ABDULLAHI A. AN-NA’IM, Emory University.
Presented by the Human Rights Research and… Read More
October 3, 2011 - 5:00 pm
Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Contradictions and Gaps
Panelists: MODESTE MBA TALLA, JOHN NKOKO LIPAMBALA, ARLETTE MAYALA NKOSI, University of Ot… Read More
October 12, 2011 - 12:00 pm
The Rise of Provisional Governance? Expertise, Authority & the Transformation of Global Development Finance
JACQUELINE BEST, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.
Lunchtime seminar, pr… Read More
October 12, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations: Power of Practices, Practices of Power
DIDIER BIGO, King’s College London and Sciences-Po Paris.
Presented by the School of… Read More
October 14, 2011 - 2:00 pm
New Directions in Track Two Diplomacy
Workshop sponsored by CIPS.
By invitation only. Closed to observers.
This workshop will bri… Read More
October 15, 2011 - 9:00 am
Linking Mediation to Long-term Peacebuilding: Tensions and Opportunities
KATIA PAPAGIANNI, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. R… Read More
October 18, 2011 - 1:00 pm
What Are the Prospects for Iran’s Reformists?
WALTER POSCH, German Institute for Foreign and Security Policy.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In… Read More
November 1, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Norwegian Energy Policy: Looking Northwards
OLA BORTEN MOE, Energy Minister of Norway.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Registrati… Read More
November 2, 2011 - 10:00 am
The Responsibility to Protect 10 Years On: Reflections on Its Past, Present and Future
KOFI ANNAN, former Secretary-General of the United Nations,
LLOYD AXWORTHY, former Canadi… Read More
November 4, 2011 - 1:30 pm
How Successful Are Social Transfer Programs at Reaching Materially Deprived Households with Children? Cross-National Comparison
GERANDA NOTTEN, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottaw… Read More
November 8, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: Reconciliation Still to Come
BRUCE LEVY, Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Op… Read More
November 9, 2011
Sécurité et droits humains : quelles zones de compatibilité?
MARCO SASSÒLI, University of Geneva.
Presented by the Human Rights Research and Education C… Read More
November 10, 2011 - 5:00 pm
Historical Lessons in Governing Afghanistan, 1500-2014
THOMAS BARFIELD, Boston University.
Presented by CIPS and the Department of History.
Free.… Read More
November 14, 2011 - 12:00 pm
“Prosecutor”: Movie Screening and Discussion
LUIS MORENO-OCAMPO, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, together with… Read More
November 15, 2011 - 1:00 pm
The Campaign Against Hate
FARAH PANDITH, U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities.
Presented by CIPS, in as… Read More
November 16, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Youth Mobilization and the Problem of the Radical
Panelists: STEFFEN JENSEN, MORTEN KOCH ANDERSEN, DAN HIRSLUND, and JACOB RASMUSSEN, Reha… Read More
November 21, 2011 - 9:00 am
Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid
JENNIFER CLAPP, University of Waterloo and CIGI.
Presented by the International Political… Read More
November 21, 2011 - 2:30 pm
Anvil Mining and Human Rights Abuses in the Congo: Seeking Justice through Canadian Courts
PATRICIA FEENY, Rights and Accountability in Development, and ANDIE LAMB, Global Witness.… Read More
November 24, 2011 - 12:30 pm
Norwegian Perspectives on Strategic Challenges: From the High North to Terrorism
ROGER INGEBRIGTSEN, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Defence.
Presented by CIPS, i… Read More
November 25, 2011 - 9:30 am
Workshop: Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
Presented by CIPS and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
Free. In Engl… Read More
December 2, 2011 - 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Conflict: The Evidence from Latin America
PAUL HASLAM, School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa… Read More
December 6, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Governance Ecosystems: CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector
Book launch and panel discussion featuring:
TIM SHAW, Carleton, Dalhousie, Royal Roads an… Read More
December 7, 2011 - 10:00 am
Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence
FRANK HARVEY, Dalhousie University.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is n… Read More
January 10, 2012 - 11:30 am
Autorité, logiques et pratiques dans la commercialisation de la microfinance : le cas du Pérou et des agences de notation
MARIE LANGEVIN, School of Political Studies.
Presented by the International Political Eco… Read More
January 12, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Taiwan’s 2012 Elections: Perspectives from Political Science and Sociology
ANDRÉ LALIBERTÉ, University of Ottawa, JEREMY PALTIEL, Carleton University and SCOTT… Read More
January 17, 2012 - 5:30 pm
The Arab Spring, One Year Later
Panel discussion featuring:
BARAK BARFI, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C.
PETER J… Read More
January 18, 2012 - 1:30 pm
Financial Sector Policy and Development in the Wake of the Global Crisis
ROY CULPEPER, former President and CEO, The North-South Institute, and Senior Fellow, Sch… Read More
January 19, 2012 - 10:30 am
International Relations and the First Great Debate
BRIAN SCHMIDT, Carleton University.
Presented by the International Theory Network (ITN) a… Read More
January 25, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Explorations in Political Economy: E.H. Carr, Susan Strange and the ‘British School’ of IPE
RANDALL GERMAIN, Carleton University.
Presented by the International Political Economy… Read More
January 26, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Can ‘Culture’ Help Explain Middle East Conflicts?
PHILIP SALZMAN, McGill University.
Presented by the Department of Sociology and Anthropol… Read More
January 26, 2012 - 5:00 pm
The Van Doos in Afghanistan: Film Screening and Discussion
Film screening, followed by a discussion with Lieutenant-Colonel FRANÇOIS DUFAULT, Can… Read More
January 30, 2012 - 2:30 pm
U.N. Integration and Humanitarian Space
SARA PANTULIANO, Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute.
Presen… Read More
January 31, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Beyond the West: Civilizations in World Politics
PETER KATZENSTEIN, Cornell University.
Presented by CIPS and the Graduate School of Public… Read More
February 2, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Elections in Dangerous Places
Panel discussion featuring:
EUGENIA ZORBAS, Canadian International Development Agency.… Read More
February 6, 2012 - 10:00 am
Les populations vulnérables ou les organisations humanitaires internationales : qui doit survivre?
FRANÇOIS AUDET, Canadian Research Institute on Humanitarian Crisis and Aid.
Presented by C… Read More
February 7, 2012 - 11:30 am
Spaces of Debtfare and Dispossession in Uneven Development
SUSANNE SOEDERBERG, Queen’s University.
Presented by the International Political… Read More
February 8, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Libya: The Difficult Transition to Democracy
AZZA KAMEL MAGHUR, Member of Libyan Council for Human Rights.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In Eng… Read More
February 13, 2012 - 1:00 pm
Women’s Rights and Political Changes in the Arab World: A Spring to Celebrate?
Videoconference featuring:
SOPHIE BESSIS, International Federation for Human Rights (FI… Read More
February 14, 2012 - 11:30 am
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
TRITA PARSI, National Iranian American Council.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Regis… Read More
February 14, 2012 - 1:00 pm
South Africa in the New World Order
ELIZABETH COBBETT, Department of Political Science, Carleton University.
Presented by th… Read More
February 15, 2012 - 12:00 pm
The U.S. Exit Strategy in Afghanistan
STEVE COLL, New America Foundation.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is no… Read More
February 27, 2012 - 1:00 pm
Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime
PAYAM AKHAVAN, McGill University.
Presented by CIPS and the Human Rights Research and Educa… Read More
February 28, 2012 - 11:30 am
International Criminal Law: Only for the Winners?
WILLIAM SCHABAS, Middlesex University.
Presented by the Human Rights Research and Educati… Read More
February 29, 2012 - 5:00 pm
The Kimberley Process at Twelve: Analyzing the First Dozen Years of Global Governance Efforts to End the Trade of Conflict Diamonds
ANDREW GRANT, Queen’s University.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In English. Registratio… Read More
March 1, 2012 - 11:30 am
Inaugural IPEN Graduate Student Workshop: Democracy and Governance in an Age of Austerity
University of Ottawa International Political Economy Network
Inaugural Graduate Student… Read More
March 2, 2012 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
The Social and Political Context of the (American) Science of International Relations
IDO OREN, Department of Political Science, University of Florida.
Presented by the Interna… Read More
March 5, 2012 - 12:00 pm
State Building and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq and Beyond
***Please note the new room for this event : DMS 12110 (12th floor)***
MEHMET GURSES, Flori… Read More
March 7, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Bearing Witness: Documenting China’s Rise
RYAN PYLE, documentary photographer.
Presented by CIPS, in association with the Universit… Read More
March 7, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Les hybrides de la mondialisation
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRAZ, University of Lausanne.
Presented by the International Political… Read More
March 8, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Did We Exaggerate the al-Qa’ida Threat?
GLENN CARLE, former U.S. intelligence officer.
Presented by the Security Studies Network a… Read More
March 12, 2012 - 11:00 am
The Race for the U.S. Presidency: State of Play and Implications for Canada
MICHAEL KERGIN, former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.
LUIZA SAVAGE, Washington bureau chi… Read More
March 13, 2012 - 4:30 pm
La mobilité des personnes et la nouvelle transnationalisation de l’économie mondiale
HÉLÈNE PELLERIN, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
Presented by the Inter… Read More
March 14, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Une diplomatie à la traine des États-Unis? La gestion canadienne du “printemps arabe”
JONATHAN PAQUIN, Université Laval.
Presented by the Graduate School of Public and Interna… Read More
March 15, 2012 - 11:30 am
The Moral and Strategic Failures of Humanitarian Interventions
JOSHUA FOUST, American Security Project.
Presented by CIPS. Free. In English. Registratio… Read More
March 21, 2012 - 3:00 pm
Coping with Change in Global Affairs: 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
This annual conference is organized by graduate students with the support of the Centre for I… Read More
March 22, 2012 - 5:00 pm to March 23, 2012 - 6:00 pm
Keynote Speech—CIPS Graduate Student Conference: Coping with Change in Global Affairs
PAUL HEINBECKER, Laurier Centre for Global Relations and CIGI.
Presented by CIPS as part of t… Read More
March 22, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Instituting Failure: Why Deviance Explains Peacebuilding Success
SUSANNA CAMPBELL, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, IHEID Geneva.
Pres… Read More
March 28, 2012 - 12:00 pm
The ‘Decline of the West’ Revisited: Future World Order and a Dialogue of Civilizations
ROBERT COX, York University.
Presented by the International Political Economy Network (IP… Read More
March 28, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Canada’s Torture Memos?
Panel discussion with:
CRAIG FORCESE, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
WESL… Read More
April 2, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Towards a Global Migration Management Regime
FRANÇOIS CRÉPEAU, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.
Prese… Read More
April 3, 2012 - 11:30 am
Death From Above: Targeted Killing and the Drone Debate
STEPHANIE CARVIN, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Presented by CIPS.
Free. In Englis… Read More
April 12, 2012 - 10:00 am
The Triumphs and Tragedies of Revolution: Protecting Human Rights across North Africa and the Middle East
MOHAMED LOTFY, Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Amnesty International… Read More
April 30, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
JOSHUA ROVNER, U.S. Naval War College.
Presented by the Security Studies Networks at CIPS.
F… Read More
May 4, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Haiti: What kind of governance and reconstruction?
Panel discussion with:
DANIEL HOLLY, Université du Québec à Montréal
STEPHEN BARANYI, Univ… Read More
May 10, 2012 - 12:00 pm
