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  • Securing Our Common Future: Why Disarmament Matters Today as Much as Ever

    Faculty of Social Science, Room 4004 120 University Private, Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Date: February 19, 2020
    Reception 3:30-4:00, talk begins at 4:00 pm
    Location: FSS 4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa

    Presented by: CIPS and the Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention

    Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament, bluntly warns that the struggle for nuclear arms control and disarmament is “going backwards” and calls for “a new vision” to re-establish arms control dialogue and negotiations.

  • Panel Discussion: Canada’s bid for UN Security Council

    Webinar

    Read about, and register for, a lively and timely panel discussion, two days before the UN vote takes place, on Canada's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council for a two-year period beginning in 2021.

    Free

  • Israel and Palestine: Future Directions in the Middle East

    Webinar

    Our panel of regional specialists will provide this analysis through an update on the politics of the Middle East (Dr Alaa Tartir), political trends and life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Inès Abdel Razek), political currents in Israel (Dr Shir Hever), and Canada’s relationship with the Palestinians and Middle East Peace Process (Dr Jeremy Wildeman).

    $10.00