CIPS Hosts Release of Asia Foundation’s 2018 Survey of the Afghan People

Demarais Hall, University of Ottawa 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Event Date: December 11, 2018 - 9:00am to 11:30am Location: Faculty of Social Science 4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa Voices of the Afghan People The Asia Foundation releases its 14th annual public perception survey Afghanistan is at an important moment in its history. Despite a persistent insurgency that continues to control and destabilize roughly half of the country,… Continue Reading CIPS Hosts Release of Asia Foundation’s 2018 Survey of the Afghan People

Democratic Transition and Peacebuilding in Ethiopia

December 14th, 2018, 2:00-4:00pm University of Ottawa, L'amoureux Room 220 145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private December 15th, 2108, 1:00pm - 4pm Bronson Centre 211 Bronson Ave   Ethio-Canadian Peacebuilding Network is organizing events focused on the importance of peacebuilding and national reconciliation in Ethiopia. Over the last 8 months Ethiopia has gone through unprecedented  political reform that is having significant… Continue Reading Democratic Transition and Peacebuilding in Ethiopia

Bolsonaro in Power: The Why, The Ugly, and The Foggy

Palais Imperial Restaurant 311- 313 Dalhousie St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as President of Brazil on January 1st. An ultra-conservative, bitter, prejudiced and verbally aggressive admirer of Brazil’s military regime, he had been on the political and ideological fringe for more than two decades but now finds himself as the head of one of the world’s largest countries, whether by territory, population or the economy. His election, last October, was met the world over by shrill warnings of fascism and hair-raising comparisons with the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, and Chile’s Augusto Pinochet—whom he praised during the campaign.

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