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SUMMARY:February 25\, Adapt to Survive - Luncheon Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Group of 78 Luncheon Speaker Series\nDR. Edward W. (Ted) Manning\nEvent PDF \n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 25\, 2020 \n 12:00 p.m. \n Palais Imperial Restaurant\, \n 311- 313 Dalhousie St.\, Ottawa\n\n\n\n  \n$30 for luncheon and presentation (12:00 p.m.) \n$5 for presentation only (arrive 12:45 p.m. Coffee and tea will be available) \nRESERVATIONS: Group78@group78.org\, 613-565-9449 ext. 22 or Eventbrite \nJoin us for Lunch RSVP by Friday\, February 21\, 2020\, at 12:00 p.m.\, presentation only participants are welcome to walk in\, seating is on a first-come-first-serve basis. \nPayment/registration options:\n1) Interac e-transfer: direct deposit payment to group78@group78.org\, please include a note with your name and email.\n2) e-mail RSVP  (cheque\, cash\, credit\, debit at the door):\n3) Online (Eventbrite) \nOnline Registration \n*Individuals who do not cancel their reservations for the lunch at least 24 hours before the luncheon will be billed $30. \nOutline \nIn an ideal world\, humanity would take such actions as are required to limit climate change to levels compatible with sustaining the global ecosystem.  It is becoming increasingly clear that the choice of a path that keeps global warming below 2 degrees is unlikely\, and that humans and other creatures will\, therefore\, need to live with the results. \nDr. Manning will discuss adaptation strategies prepared for various UN agencies and national governments primarily focused on small islands\, coastal zones and World Heritage sites\, and developing risk management methods for the UN World Tourism Organization. He will also cover work by international organizations to define scenarios and practical tools towards creating more robust responses in support of survival.   Ted will then review some global approaches\, such as those underway with Small Island Developing States and with tourism in coastal zones and fragile ecosystems. \nThe presentation will end with a brief discussion of what it may mean for individual Canadians and their communities.  Even if we get it right\, the transition is unlikely to be smooth and it does not hurt to be prepared. \nEdward W. (Ted) Manning \nTed Manning is President of Tourisk Inc.\, based in Ottawa Canada and providing integrated planning for heritage sites and tourism destinations worldwide.  Dr. Manning has worked in environmentally and culturally sensitive areas for the UN World Tourism Organization\, (UNWTO) the World Wildlife Fund and in over 50 countries in Asia\, Africa\, Europe\, and the Americas.  He served as Executive Manager\, Sustainable Tourism for Tourism Canada\, and as a planner for Environment Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. He has published 23 books and over 100 articles on development\, tourism and environmental management topics. \nHe has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome\, as President of the Canadian Association of Geographers and as an Adjunct Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University.
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SUMMARY:March 31\, 2020 WEBINAR - Battling pandemics in an era of populism: Lessons from coronavirus
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Speaker Series\nDr. Kumanan Wilson\nMarch 31\,2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m.\nOutline \nPrompted by the European outbreaks of cholera in the 19th century there has been a recognition that fighting the spread of disease requires international cooperation. This became particularly evident after the SARS outbreak resulting in the approval of revised International Health Regulations. These Regulations were unprecedented in their scope and emerged in an era where there was a recognition of the importance of global collaboration. \nAs we enter a new era\, with a return of isolationism\, the battle against pandemics has become more problematic. The early responses to the coronavirus outbreak demonstrate some these emerging challenges. This talk will discuss the emergence of the current approach to battling global public health emergencies and warning signs for managing future such threats. \nDr. Kumanan Wilson \nDr. Kumanan Wilson is Professor in Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa and scientist and physician at the Ottawa Hospital. He is currently a consultant to both the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. His research has examined issues related to global and national public health security\, leading him to develop the CANImmunize pan-Canadian digital immunization platform. \nDr. Wilson has published over 300 academic papers spanning the fields of digital health\, immunization\, pandemic preparedness\, blood safety and health policy. \nOnline Registration \nThe group of 78 is not holding public events at this time due to COVID-19.  We would like to continue our regular programming via webinar.  We are asking for a small fee to help cover administration and software expenses. \n$5 for presentation and question-answer \nRegistration options: \n1) Interac e-transfer: direct deposit payment to group78@group78.org\, please include a note with your name and email in the transfer. \n2) Online (Eventbrite) \nRegistration closes: Monday\, March 31\, 2020\, 11:00 am\, 2020. \nwww.group78.org
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SUMMARY:April 28\, 2020\, WEBINAR: The Battle for the future of food in the deepening climate and coronavirus global emergencies\, ft. Timothy A. Wise
DESCRIPTION:This event is live streaming on Facebook.  Please visit our Facebook page to view the live event\nTimothy A. Wise\nApril 28\,2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m.\nThis is a Free Webinar please register through Eventbrite\nEvent PDF \nOnline Registration \nOutline \nA series of recent United Nations reports on the growing climate emergency highlights the urgent need to change the way we grow\, market\, and consume our food if we want to meet the UN goals to end hunger by 2030. The current pandemic reveals additional vulnerabilities in our global food systems. Based on his extensive research in India\, Mexico\, the United States\, and several countries in Southern Africa\, Timothy A. Wise presents key findings from his recent book\, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food (New Press\, 2019). He echoes UN calls to reduce dependence on fossil-fuel-based inputs and promote a transition to short supply chains\, local and regional food webs\, and low-input ecological agriculture. \nTimothy Wise \nTimothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute\, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute\, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press) and Confronting Globalization:Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \nTwitter: @TimothyAWise\nInstagram: @TimothyAWise\nEmail: tim.wise@tufts.edu\nSpeaking invitations: info@smallplanet.org subject line: SPEAKER\nTo order: https://www.smallplanet.org/eating-tomorrow \n \nOnline Registration \nGuest Speakers: \nEmily Kocsis Bio  \nEmily is an interdisciplinary global health researcher and practitioner with a passion for systems thinking and ecosystem approaches to health. She earned her Masters of Science in Global Health from McMaster University\, and a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Western University. During her Masters\, Emily focused her research on traditional food systems in Kenya\, investigating the cultural\, social and nutritional importance of fermented foods. Emily has also worked on global health and development research projects in a number of different capacities. She worked as a Junior Consultant with the Canadian Cooperative Association to support smallholder cacao and coffee farmers in Peru\, and as a Research Assistant for an investigation on nutrition and food access among vulnerable populations in Vietnam. \nCurrently\, Emily works as a consultant for Indigenous health organizations in Ontario\, and as a Coordinator for the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research’s Students and Young Professionals Network. \nHailing from the fruit belt of Niagara\, Emily has spent much of her life surrounded by agriculture. With plans to investigate the interplay between agriculture\, migration and food sovereignty in Latin America through a PhD next year\, Emily hopes to continue exploring and contributing to the global effort to build more just and sustainable food systems. \nAwegechew Theshome \nAwegechew Teshome is an independent research scientist initially trained as wildlife manager at College of African Wildlife Management in East Africa. He developed expertise through post graduate studies in soils\, climate analysis\, geomorphology\, agricultural biodiversity\, genetics and the management of crop diversity by traditional farmers with Master’s and Doctoral degrees at University of Ottawa and Carleton University in Canada. Awegechew is the winner of the prestigious Vavilov-Franklin fellowship. \nAwegechew has worked as Manager and International Scientific Advisor to farmer-based agricultural biodiversity programs in Africa\, Asia and the Americas. He served as a resource person and trainer for International training workshops on Genetic resources conservation and utilization for livelihood and environmental sustainability. \nAwegechew has conducted field-based research in the center and origin of crop diversity in collaboration with Ethiopian and Canadian Universities.  He has co-published several peer reviewed scientific papers on the conservation\, uses and management of agricultural biodiversity by family farmers\, with an emphasis on the functions of agroecosystems for human and environmental benefits. His research work places genetic resource management within a landscape and ecosystem context\, and examines interactions between biotic\, abiotic and human factors in the management of biological resources. As a result\, he has developed a true appreciation for the dynamism\, resilience\, and functional diversity of family farming systems. \nAwegechew has provided scientific and evidence-based policy advice to UN Conventions on Biological Diversity\, Combating desertification\, and Climate Change.  He has a strong interest in wedding traditional farming systems with science to meet the challenges of food\, livelihood and environmental security\, empowering farmers over their genetic resources and time-tested knowledge and practices through sound policies and fair governance. He is particularly passionate about farmer-scientist collaboration and about the incorporation of field-based research and expertise into policies and programs for resilient livelihoods and environmental security. \n\nThis is a Free Webinar  please register through Eventbrite \nIf you would like to make a contribution to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. \nContribution options: \n1) Interac e-transfer: direct deposit payment to group78@group78.org\, please include a note with your name and email in the transfer. \n2) Online (Eventbrite) \nwww.group78.org \nThank you to our co-sponsors
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SUMMARY:May 26\, 2020\, WEBINAR - The Battle for Universal Pharmacare in Canada Ft. Marc-André Gagnon
DESCRIPTION:May 26\, 2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m.\nOnline Registration\nTickets:\n$5.00 – Regular Admission\nFree – Unwaged/Student\nEvent Pdf\n  \nOutline \nDrug coverage in Canada is a patchwork; an inequitable inefficient and unsustainable patchwork with no coherence or purpose. Some people think that we can solve the problem by adding more patches\, but the core of the problem is that it is a patchwork. For the working population\, access to medicines is still organized as privileges offered by employers to their employees. Universal pharmacare would not only provide better access to needed prescription drugs\, but also eliminate waste\, ensure value-for-money and help improve drug safety and appropriate prescribing. Opponents fear that a universal pharmacare plan would ration drugs\, and impede drug access for some patients. However\, these claims misunderstand the reality of drug coverage\, pricing and access. Opponents propose\, instead\, to “fill the gap” of current drug coverage by implementing catastrophic coverage\, which would serve commercial interests without maximizing health outcomes for the Canadian population. In spite of overwhelming evidence and consensus in the academic community in favour of universal pharmacare\, the battle is far from over. \nMarc-André Gagnon  \nMarc-André Gagnon is Associate Professor with Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University and a Master’s of Advanced Study in Economics from Paris-1 Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud. He did his post-doctoral training with the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University’s Faculty of Law\, and with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. \n  \nHis current research focuses mainly on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector. He analyzes comparative regimes of health and drug coverage\, regulatory capture of public institutions\, innovation policies and intellectual property in the knowledge-based economy. \n  \nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/webinar-the-battle-for-universal-pharmacare-in-canada/
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Canada’s bid for UN Security Council
DESCRIPTION:Live discussion on Zoom \nDate: Monday June 15\, 2020 \nTime: 6-7PM EST \n\n\nThe Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) has organized a panel discussion about Canada’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council\, scheduled for Monday\, June 15th at 6-7 PM EST. \nOn June 17\, 2020\, the United Nations Security Council election will be held during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This election will concern five non-permanent seats on the UNSC for two-year mandates. The Trudeau government launched an international campaign to secure a seat on the council and has been vigorously lobbying UNGA members to garner votes. \nCanada faces serious competition from its European counterparts\, particularly Norway and Ireland. This panel will discuss Canada’s uphill battle for a seat on the UNSC\, examining Canada’s potential role\, as a non-permanent seat on the council as well as its impact on its foreign policy. \nPanel will feature two distinguished Canadian UN experts:\n\nPeggy Mason\, former Canadian ambassador for disarmament to the UN and President of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs\,\nAdam Chapnick\, the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College and a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada.\n\nThe IPD Research Fellow Pouyan Kimiayjan is moderating this discussion. \nClick here to register for the panel discussion on Zoom.
URL:https://group78.org/event/panel-discussion-canadas-bid-for-un-security-council/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:June 23\, 2020\, WEBINAR - Getting to Net Zero\, Featuring: Senator Mary Coyle
DESCRIPTION:June 23\, 2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m. (EDT\, GMT-4)\nOnline Registration\nTickets:\n$10.00 – Suggested\nor Free \nEvent Pdf\n  \nOutline \nOn February 6\, 2020\, just 7 sitting days into Canada’s 43rd Parliament\, and a week and a half after the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg confirmed Canada’s first case of Covid-19\, I launched a Senate Inquiry into finding the right pathways and actions for Canada and Canadians to meet our net zero carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions targets in order to slow\, arrest and hopefully reverse human- caused climate change\, to ensure a healthy planet\, a healthy society\, a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. \nDuring our June 23rd Group of 78 virtual gathering\, I will highlight the intention behind the launch of the inquiry\, the substance of my speech\, the contributions of my fellow senators and ambitions for amplifying the conversation and its impact. \nBiography \nA long-time champion for women’s leadership\, gender equality\, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples\, Mary Coyle has forged a distinguished career in the post-secondary education and non-profit sectors\, with a focus on international and local development. \nShe holds a diploma in French Language from the Université de Besançon in France and a Bachelor of Arts in Languages and Literature with a major in French and a minor in Spanish from the University of Guelph. After working for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as a Cuso International cooperant in Botswana\, she earned a Master of Arts in Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph. She subsequently worked as a rural development advisor in Indonesia and later to support two State Islamic Universities develop their community engagement strategies. \nFor the next decade as Executive Director of Calmeadow\, Ms. Coyle helped the organization pioneer the creation of the world’s first commercial micro finance bank\, BancoSol\, in Bolivia and establish the First Peoples Fund to provide micro loans to First Nations and Métis communities in Canada. \nIn 1997\, she joined St. Francis Xavier University\, serving as Vice President and Director of the school’s Coady International Institute\, a world-renowned centre of excellence in community-based development and leadership education. During her tenure\, the Coady International Institute grew significantly\, enhancing its global education and innovation agenda and expanding programming for women\, youth\, and Indigenous Peoples. \nSince 2014\, Ms. Coyle has worked as the Executive Director of the Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership at St. Francis Xavier University\, a centre devoted to developing student leadership. She also continues to work as an advisor and facilitator for various organizations\, including the Haitian Centre for Leadership and Excellence and the Friends United Indigenous Arts and Culture Initiative. Mary Coyle played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Stephen Lewis Foundation\, the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative\, and the Indian School of Microfinance for Women. \nShe has 3 daughters\, Emilie\, Lauren\, and Lindelwa\, and 6 grandchildren. \n  \nMilitante de longue date du leadership des femmes\, de l’égalité des sexes et des droits des peuples autochtones\, Mary Coyle s’est distinguée par une carrière axée sur le développement local et international\, dans les domaines de l’éducation postsecondaire et d’organismes à but non lucratif. \nElle détient un diplôme en langue française de l’Université de Besançon\, en France\, et un baccalauréat ès arts en langues et littérature\, avec majeure en français et mineure en espagnol de l’Université de Guelph. Après avoir travaillé pour le ministère du commerce et de l’industrie du Botswana en tant que coopérante de Cuso International\, elle a obtenu une maîtrise ès arts en planification rurale et développement à l’Université de Guelph. Par la suite\, elle a travaillé comme conseillère en développement rural en Indonésie\, puis a appuyé deux universités islamiques d’état à mettre en place leurs stratégies d’engagement communautaire. \nAu cours de la décennie suivante\, à titre de directrice générale de Calmeadow\, Mme Coyle a aidé cette organisation à lancer la création de la première banque commerciale de microfinancement au monde\, BancoSol\, en Bolivie\, et à mettre sur pied un fonds pour les Premières Nations\, qui fait des microprêts aux communautés des Premières Nations et aux communautés métisses au Canada. \nEn 1997\, elle s’est jointe à l’Université St. Francis Xavier en tant que vice-présidente et directrice du Coady International Institute\, centre d’excellence réputé à travers le monde en développement communautaire et en enseignement du leadership. Pendant son mandat\, le Coady International Institute a pris beaucoup d’expansion\, améliorant son programme mondial d’innovation et d’éducation et élargissant ses programmes pour les femmes\, les jeunes et les peuples autochtones. \nDepuis 2014\, Mme Coyle travaille comme directrice exécutive du Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership à l’Université St. Francis Xavier\, un centre spécialisé dans le développement du leadership des étudiants. Elle continue à travailler comme conseillère et facilitatrice auprès de diverses organisations\, notamment le Haitian Centre for Leadership and Excellence et la Friends United Indigenous Arts and Culture Initiative. Mary Coyle a joué un rôle essentiel à l’établissement de la Stephen Lewis Foundation\, de la Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative et de la Indian School of Microfinance for Women. \nMme Coyle a trois filles\, Emilie\, Lauren et Lindelwa\, ainsi que sept petits-enfants. \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
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LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:July 28\, 2020\, WEBINAR - Canadian Foreign Policy: Time For A Re-Set?
DESCRIPTION:July 28\, 2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m. (EDT\, GMT-4)\nOnline Registration\nTickets:\n$10.00 – Suggested\nor Free \nOutline \nOn June 17\, Canada lost its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council\, the second time in a decade that it has tried and failed to do so. This event has stoked debate about Canada’s standing in the UN\, and much self-searching about the role Canada plays (or should play) on the world stage. The world of 2020 is fundamentally different from the postwar world of 1950 when the foundations of Canada’s foreign policy were laid. Lamentably\, the threat of nuclear annihilation remains. But the climate crisis poses an additional existential threat to the planet. And Canada is no longer the leading peacekeeper and aid donor that it once was. The Canadian foreign service is understaffed and under-resourced to meet the challenges of today. All that being so\, a review of Canada’s foreign policy is overdue. This webinar will take stock of emerging global and national realities\, along with Canada’s international aspirations and capabilities\, in thinking about the shape of foreign policy in the decades ahead. Just as important\, perhaps\, it will consider how a sweeping review of our foreign policy should be structured\, to make it open and inclusive\, and not simply a dialogue among foreign policy experts. \nModerator \n\nMargaret Huber \nCommunity leader\, former diplomat\, mentor. Director (and past president) of the Canadian International Council’s National Capital Branch and Harvard Club of Ottawa. Advisory Board member of Samara Centre for Democracy and of Pharos Global Health Advisors. Former Ambassador in Europe\, Asia and the Middle East. During extensive diplomatic career\, worked closely with international organizations including the United Nations\, the European Union\, the International Olympic Committee\, the Asian Development Bank and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Strong believer in life-long learning (graduate McGill University\, uOttawa\, Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program\, Institute of Corporate Directors. Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative). \nSpeakers \n\nPeggy Mason\, President of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs \nA former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the UN (1989-1995)\, and an expert in the political/diplomatic aspects of UN peace operations training (1995-2014)\, Peggy Mason is now the President of the Rideau Institute\, an independent\, non-profit think tank focusing on policy research and advocacy in foreign\, defence and national security policy. She is active in many NGO’s including the Canadian Pugwash Group (Vice-Chair)\, Group of 78 (Past Chair)\, World Federalist Movement – Canada (past Board member)\, and the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Advisory Board member). A graduate of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Common Law\, she was inducted into its Honour Society in 2003. For her work on nuclear disarmament she received the 2016 Leadership Award from Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. \n\nDaryl Copeland \nDaryl Copeland\, Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute\, Senior Advisor for Science Diplomacy at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna)\, and Fellow at the University of Montreal’s Centre for International Studies and Research (CERIUM) is an analyst\, author\, educator and consultant specializing in the relationship between science\, technology\, diplomacy\, and international policy. His book\, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations\, was released in 2009 by Lynne Rienner Publishers and is cited as an essential reference by the editors of Oxford Bibliographies Online. He has also published 13 book chapters and over 200 articles in the scholarly and popular press\, is a member of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal’s International Advisory Board\, and an Editorial Board member of the publication Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. From 1981 to 2011 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand\, Ethiopia\, New Zealand and Malaysia. \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
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SUMMARY:August 25\, 2020\, Webinar - Why the ‘Trump era’ could last for thirty years
DESCRIPTION:August 25\, 2020 – 11:00-12:30 p.m. (EDT\, GMT-4)\nUK time (4 pm-5:30 pm) and all-India time (8:30 pm- 10 pm) \nOnline Registration\nTickets:\n$10.00 – Suggested\nor Free \nModerator:\nManfred Bienefeld\nProfessor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration \nSpeakers\nJayati Ghosh\nProfessor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi \nRobert H. Wade \nProfessor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. \nOutline\nWill even a one-term Trump presidency mark the start of a decades-long era of more authoritarian nationalism and of more compromised internationalism? With support for liberal internationalism long in decline\, can the shift in the western world’s centre of gravity towards unilateralism\, authoritarianism and militarism be reversed\, even as incomes and labour markets continue to polarize\, and as corporate and financial interests seek to use more authoritarian and divisive governments to support even greater freedom of movement for international capital? What are the prospects that progressive forces in the developed\, and the developing world\, can use the newfound – largely Covid-19 induced – appreciation of the need for strong\, capable states to protect the public interest in times of growing uncertainty\, to build decisive political counter-movement from the bottom up? \nModerator \n\n Manfred Bienefeld\nProfessor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration  \nManfred A. Bienefeld is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His current research interests include\, development policy\, wages/employment\, commodity/capital markets\, human capital\, technology/industrialization\, development and the environment\, development in a historical perspective\, his area interests include Africa\, Canada\, the Pacific\, and East Asia and his issue interests include\, issue interests\, the debt crisis protectionism\, industrial policy\, planning\, privatization\, the “newly industrializing countries.” He has edited (with Jane Jenson and Rianne Mahon) Production\, Space\, Identity\, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press 1993.  \nSpeakers \n\nJayati Ghosh\, \nProfessor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi \n Her research interests include globalisation\, international trade and finance\, employment patterns\, macroeconomic policy\, gender issues\, poverty and inequality. She has authored and/or edited a dozen books and around 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include Demonetisation Decoded: A critique of India’s monetary experiment and India and the International Economy\, (Oxford University Press 2015). She has received several national and international prizes\, including the M. Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India in 2015\, and the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2010. She has advised governments in India and other countries. She was the Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004\, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission reporting to the Prime Minister of India (2005-09). She is the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org)\, an international network of heterodox development economists. She has consulted for several international organisations including ILO\, UNDP\, UNCTAD\, UN-DESA\, UNRISD and UN Women and is member of several international commissions. She writes regularly for popular media like newspapers\, journals and blogs. \n \nRobert H. Wade \nProfessor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. \n He was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2008. His book Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia’s Industrialization (Princeton University Press\, 1990\, 2004) won the American Political Science Association’s award of Best Book in Political Economy for 1989-91. He was an invited member of the Financial Times’ “Economists’ Forum”\, described as “50 of the world’s most influential economists.” A New Zealand citizen\, he worked earlier at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University)\, the World Bank\, US Congress (Office of Technology Assessment)\, Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School)\, MIT (Sloan School)\, and Brown University (Watson Institute). He has conducted fieldwork in Pitcairn Island\, Italy\, India\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Iceland\, and inside the World Bank and IMF – all steered by an interest in Adam Smith-type questions about how economies create and distribute the basis for material well-being. His recent publications deal with: trends in global growth\, poverty and income/wealth distribution; the developmental state (alive or dead?); industrial policy; financial crises; the governance of international economic organizations (eg World Bank\, IMF\, G20); the “invisible strings” of the Core-Periphery structure of the world economy; and the profession and ethics of economists. His other books include : Irrigation and Politics in South Korea (1982)\, Village Republics: The Economic Conditions of Collective Action in India (1988\, 1994\, 2007).  \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/timeforareset-2/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon
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SUMMARY:2020 Policy Forum - The Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded
DESCRIPTION:Given the impending American election and its potentially dramatic foreign policy implications\, we are now planning our Conclusions and Recommendations webinar for early to mid-November. Please stay tuned as it will be worth the wait!\nThere will be a Keynote speaker\, and five panels featuring\, altogether\, eleven speakers and five moderators. Following the Keynote Address\, during the period ending Thursday 7 October\, there will be four interlinked panels with the speakers and topics set out below. Since we have speakers on different continents\, there may still be some small adjustments to the times. There will then be a one- week pause to consider and reflect\, followed by a fifth panel on Conclusions and Recommendations. \nTicket options\nZoom links are distributed upon registration\, and one day\, as well as one hour\, before the start time. \n1) Full Conference Pass – suggested $30.00 (available by clicking on Select A Date\, and then on any Event date). Participants signing up for the full series will be invited to a sixth session to discuss conclusions and recommendations that will form the basis of policy actions following the webinar series. \n2) Individual Panel – suggested $10.00 (please review the full program below) \n3) Free – please register individually for each panel; there is no free Full Conference Pass option. \nOnline Registration \n\nConcept Note — The Group of 78 Virtual Policy Conference Webinar Series for 2020\nThe Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World:\nWhy UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded\nExcerpts from the G78 Webinar Series Concept Note \nUnited Nations Peacekeeping is central to conflict resolution\, international stabilization and longer-term efforts to build a sustainable peace. With the support of the international community it has the potential to become a key enabler of a long-overdue global shift towards a more cooperative security environment. \nQuestions we will address include: \n\n What are the strengths and limits of UN Peacekeeping?\n2. Can UN peacekeeping advance both rule of law and negotiated solutions to spoilers and groups designated as terrorists\, and can mandates retain mission impartiality?\n3. If UN peace operations cannot effectively address these challenges\, what else may be needed when they increasingly encounter difficulty\, as we have seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Mali\, Haiti and South Sudan?\n4. Can peacekeeping be adapted to respond more rapidly and effectively to crises before they escalate and become full-blown armed conflicts? \n\nThese conclusions are expected to help strengthen civil society’s understanding of these issues and to hone policy options for government decision makers. \nFor the full text of the Concept Note\, click here. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme Sept 24th – Oct 4th\, 2020\nThurs. Sept. 24\, 2020\, 7pm – 8pm EST\nKeynote Address: \nThis will be a broad overview of the political and conflict environment in which UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) play an important role. The value-added of UN peacekeeping with the peace process as the “centre of gravity” of the overall mission will be highlighted. \nJean-Marie Guehenno\, former USG for DPKO\, former head of International Crisis Group (Speaking from New York City) \n \n  \n Saturday Sept. 26\, 2020 11am – 12pm EST (5 – 6pm CEST)\nPANEL 1: Successes and Failures and Lessons Learned\nThe overall theme is the evolution of UN Peacekeeping and how that informs our approach to current challenges. \nModerator: \n\nPeggy Mason\, President of the Rideau Institute (confirmed)\n\nSpeakers: \n\nLise Morjé Howard\, Prof of Government at Georgetown University\, author of Power in Peacekeeping and UN Peacekeeping in Civil wars (Speaking from Paris\, France) (confirmed)\nRichard Gowan\, UN Director\, International Crisis Group\, broad expertise and hands-on experience with UN. (Speaking from New York City.) (confirmed)\n\n \n  \nMonday Sept. 28\, 2020\, 7 – 8pm EST \nPanel 2: CONTROVERSIES: Impartiality\, Consent\, Use of Force\nWhat UNPKOs cannot or should not do in the military dimension especially in relation to the use of force. UN Peacekeeping partnerships in Africa. \nModerator: \n\nPeggy Mason\, President of the Rideau Institute (confirmed)\n\nSpeakers: \n\nJane Boulden\, Professor\, Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada\, with a particular focus on UN efforts to manage conflict. (Speaking from Kingston\, Ontario.) (confirmed)\nPaul Williams\, Professor and Assoc Director of the Security Policy Studies program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Co-editor of Oxford Handbook on UN Peacekeeping. (Speaking from Washington\, D.C.) (confirmed)\n\n \n  \nSaturday Oct.3rd 2020\, 4 – 5pm EST\nPanel 3: FUTURE Options for UN Peace Operations\n Revisiting UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS)\, primacy of peace process\, operationalizing prevention of conflict. \nModerator: \n\nPeggy Mason\, President of the Rideau Institute (confirmed)\n\nSpeakers: \n\nVictoria K. Holt\, Vice President of the Stimson Centre\, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security (U.S. Dept of State) (speaking from Washington) (confirmed)\nPeter Langille\, Author and lead expert on UN Emergency Peace Service and “sustainable common security”. (Speaking from Ottawa) (confirmed)\n\n \n  \nMonday Oct.5th 2020\, 7-8:30pm EST \nPanel 4: Contributions by CANADA to UN Peace Operations\nWhat might Canada do in terms of advocacy\, funding\, institution building\, training\, technology\, to strengthen UN peace operations and contribute to a global shift toward sustainable peace and common security? \nModerator: \n\nJane Boulden\, Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy and a Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada (confirmed)\n\nSpeakers: \n\nPeggy Mason\, President of Rideau Institute\, former Amb for Disarmament to the UN\, former peacekeeping trainer (1995-2014)\, (Speaking from Ottawa) (confirmed)\nStephen Baranyi\, Univ of Ottawa Assoc Prof in International Development and Global Studies\, researching peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected states (Speaking from Ottawa) (confirmed)\nWalter Dorn\, RMC and Canadian Forces College professor\, author\, and a leading Canadian expert on UN peacekeeping including new technologies (Speaking from Toronto) (confirmed)\n\n \n\nPanel 5: Conclusions and Recommendations \nFollowing the Thanksgiving long weekend (10-12 October 2020)\, there will be a one-week pause to consider and reflect\, followed by a fifth panel on overall conclusions and policy recommendations. (This session is only available to Full Conference Pass holders.) \nGiven the impending American election and its potentially dramatic foreign policy implications\, we are now planning our Conclusions and Recommendations webinar for early to mid-November. Please stay tuned as it will be worth the wait!
URL:https://group78.org/event/2020-virtual-conference-the-future-of-peacekeeping-in-the-transition-to-a-more-peaceful-world-why-un-peace-operations-are-critical-and-need-to-be-expanded/
LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:October 27\, 2020\, Webinar - Getting to the bottom of the crisis in Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: Ruby Dagher\nOctober 27\, 2020 – 1:00-2:00 p.m. (EDT\, GMT-4)\nOnline Registration\nTickets:\n$10.00 – Suggested\nor Free \nEvent Pdf\n  \nOutline \n  \nThis webinar will attempt to pull back the analysis of the current crisis and delve into questions related to the legitimacy of the Lebanese state\, the role of the Lebanese leaders throughout history\, the current unprecedented levels of the leaders’ selfishness and ignorance\, and the resulting outcomes. This analysis is crucial not only for understanding Lebanon’s trajectory but also for assessing potential future governance options for Lebanon. \n  \nBiography \n  \nRuby Dagher has studied and taught at both Carleton and Ottawa Universities and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies\, University of Ottawa. Ms. Dagher has worked and consulted with the Canadian International Development Agency\, the Caribbean Development Bank\, the University of Central Asia\, and Global Affairs Canada. She has a doctorate in Public Policy and Administration Development from Carleton University and is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships. She is trilingual in English\, French and Arabic. \nMs. Dagher has written widely in books\, journals and newspapers\, has presented in many media broadcasts and has organized and moderated many conferences\, workshops and panels. Among her academic and personal interests are international development and its many dimensions\, Middle East politics\, conflict\, social movements and power relations. \n  \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/bottomofthecrisisinlebanon/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon
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SUMMARY:WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA) invites you all to a virtual panel discussion\n\nModerated by:  Chris Huggins\, University of Ottawa\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\nAgnes Apusigah\, Regentroopfen College\, Ghana\n\n\nAma Appiah-Acheampong\, Ghana Irrigation Development Agency\, Ghana\n\n\nBayush Tsegaye\, Freelance Consultant\, Ethiopia Mamy Rakotondrainibe\, Collective for the Defence of Madagasy Land-TANY\, Madagascar\n\n\n\nPlease join us on\nThursday\, November 12\, 2020\, 10:00 -11:30 EST\nPlease register through this link:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4FyqtL-zQgqs8Y2iq16KAA\n\nRegistration is free but CELADA will welcome any donations to support the webinar and other related CELADA activities (You can send by e-transfer to celadacanada@gmail.com)\n  \nPhoto Informaiton\nWorking the land in Uganda: women make up more than half of Africa’s farmers but face the biggest barriers to owning land. Photo: Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images
URL:https://group78.org/event/womens-land-rights-and-food-security-in-africa/
LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Why hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the webinar: November 19th\, 6:30PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n  \n\n\n\nJoin a webinar on the need for Canada to sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty\, featuring Liberal MP Hedy Fry\, NDP MP Heather McPherson\, Green Party MP Elizabeth May\, Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe as well as Setsuko Thurlow\, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. \n  \nCanada has not joined 122 countries represented at the July 2017 UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons\, Leading Towards their Total Elimination. It has also declined to sign the resulting UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\, which recently garnered its 50th state signatory meaning it will enter into force in 90 days. \n  \nNuclear weapons constitute one of the most serious threats facing humanity. Nuclear explosions over cities could quickly kill tens of millions. 1% of the 13\,400 nuclear weapons in the world could disrupt the global climate and threaten billions with starvation in a nuclear famine. \n  \nCanada’s 2017 defence policy ignores the threat nuclear weapons pose to human survival (North Korean nuclear weapons are mentioned once). But\, the defence policy\, “Strong\, Secure\, Engaged” makes two dozen references to Canada’s commitment to the nuclear-armed NATO alliance. \n  \nThe Trudeau government asserts it cannot ratify the UN Ban Treaty because of Canada’s membership in NATO\, which has a nuclear weapons first-strike policy. \n  \nThe NDP\, Greens & Bloc Québécois have all called on Canada to adopt the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Some Liberal & Conservative MPs\, as well as thousands of Canadians\, have also called on Canada to adopt the Treaty. \n  \nAs the UN Ban Treaty is about to become international law\, this discussion on Canada’s policies on nuclear weapons with Members of Parliament is more urgent than ever. \n  \nGUESTS:\n  \nSetsuko Thurlow was thirteen years old when she witnessed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She has been a leading anti-nuclear weapons activist in Canada and globally and jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017. \n  \nDr. Hedy Fry\, first elected as Liberal MP in Vancouver Centre in 1993\, is a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. She is the co-chair of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Canada. \n  \nAlexis Brunelle-Duceppe is the Bloc Québécois MP for Lac-Saint-Jean. He is Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development as well as of the Standing Committee on National Defence. \n  \nHeather McPherson\, the NDP MP for Edmonton Strathcona\, is the Deputy House Leader of the New Democratic Party\, NDP Critic for International Development\, and Deputy Critic for Foreign Affairs. \n  \nElizabeth May has been the Green Party MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands in B.C. since 2011 and is the Green Party Parliamentary Leader in the House of Commons. \n  \nHOSTS:\nOrganizers: The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and The Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto) \nCo-sponsors: PeaceQuest\, Science for Peace\, Les Artistes pour la Paix \nMedia Sponsor: Canadian Dimension \n\nENDORSED BY:\nAhmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada \nLes Artistes pour la Paix   \nCanadian Federation of University Women\nCanadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons\nCanadian Pugwash Group\nCanadian Voice of Women for Peace   \nCoalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick\nEdupax\nFriends of Rotary (FOR) Prevention of Nuclear War\nGreater Toronto Chapter\, National Association of Japanese Canadians\nGroup of 78\nHamilton Coalition to Stop the War \nHiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto)   \nInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada  \nInter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative\nJust Peace Advocates\nManitoba Peace Council\nMcGill Students for Peace and Disarmament\nMines Action Canada\nMouvement Québécois pour la Paix\nNational Association of Japanese Canadians\nNational Council of Women of Canada  \nNikkei Voice\nOttawa Peace Council\nPaul Maillet Centre for Ethics \nPax Christi Toronto\nPeace Magazine\nPeaceQuest\nPeace Quest Cape Breton\nPivot to Peace \nProject Ploughshares\nProject Ploughshares Saskatoon\nProject Save the World\nRegina Peace Council\nReligions for Peace Canada\nRideau Institute\nSaskatoon Peace Coalition\nScience for Peace\nTao Sangha Global Community\nToronto Article 9\nVOICES for Sustainable Environments and Communities\nWomen’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Vancouver)  \nWorld Beyond War\nINDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nJohn Polanyi\, Nobel Laureate\nJoy Kogawa\, poet\, novelist\, author of Obasan and Gently to Nagasaki.\nINTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) International Peace Bureau\nFRENCH POSTING:\nPlease see Les Artistes pour la Paix/Artists for Peace website.\nSHARE ON FACEBOOK:\nFacebook event.\nRESOURCES:\nArticle: Why Won’t Canada Back a Nuclear Weapons’ Ban? | The Tyee | By Bianca Mugyenyi\nArticle: Legacy of Canada’s role in atomic bomb is felt by northern Indigenous community| The Conversation | By Geoffrey Bird\nArticle: No Shelter from the Storm|Cape Breton Spectator | by Sean Howard \nhttps://capebretonspectator.com/2020/08/05/nuclear-threat-hiroshima-bomb/\nPierre Jasmin\, “Appel de Mme Setsuko Thurlow au Premier ministre” http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=19078\nPierre Jasmin http://lautjournal.info/20201102/armes-nucleaires-deux-bonnes-nouvelles\nJohn Polanyi https://pugwashgroup.ca/let-reason-guide-our-actions-in-the-atomic-age/\nElizabeth Renzetti https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-new-global-treaty-bans-nuclear-weapons-but-why-didnt-canada-sign/\nMotoko Rich\, “Witnessing Nuclear Carnage\, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace\,” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html\nDouglas Roche https://pugwashgroup.ca/75-years-after-hiroshima-i-wonder-if-the-goal-of-abolishing-nuclear-weapons-is-just-a-dream/\nMichael Swan\, “Nuclear Arms and Canada” https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32339-nuclear-arms-and-canada\nSetsuko Thurlow https://pugwashgroup.ca/canada-must-acknowledge-our-key-role-in-developing-the-deadly-atomic-bomb/\nSetsuko Thurlow’s June 2020 appeal to Prime Minister Trudeau http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/to-the-right-honourable-justin-trudeau.pdf\nAnton Wagner\, “Canada and the Atom Bomb” http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/canada-and-the-atom-bomb.pdf\nAnton Wagner\, “Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box” http://nikkeivoice.ca/mackenzie-king-opens-the-atomic-pandoras-box/
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SUMMARY:Nov. 24th\, Part 1 of 2: Finance\, Climate Risk\, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly
DESCRIPTION:Registration through Eventbrite\nTicket options:\n\n 	\nFree \n\n 	\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\nOnline Registration \n \nWebinars are co-hosted by the Climate Legacy and Group of 78\n In partnership with SHIFT and the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa\nDownload Event PDF\n \nThe crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis (webinar 1)\nNovember 24\, 2020. 1-2 pm ET \n\nWhere money is being invested in the global economy is an often overlooked\, but critical piece of the puzzle in solving the climate crisis. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for the first of two workshops exploring why shifting finance is essential for addressing the climate emergency and protecting investments from growing climate risks.\n \nHow to engage those managing your retirement savings on climate (webinar 2)\nDecember 1\, 2020. 1-2 ET\nLearn how to take action to ensure your retirement savings are being invested in the solutions to the climate crisis\, not the causes. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for part two of our series exploring ways to effectively engage your pension fund and shift your personal investments to protect your savings while leaving a lasting climate legacy for future generations.\n \nAdam Scott\, Director\, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health\nAdam is a climate change expert with more than 15 years of domestic and international experience in climate policy\, energy and finance. As Director of Shift\, he works with a broad range of stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. Previously\, Adam was Senior Advisor to international climate research and advocacy organization Oil Change International and was manager of Environmental Defence Canada’s Climate & Energy Program. Adam has advised governments\, provided expert media commentary\, and published numerous reports on the zero-carbon transition.\n\n\n\nClimate Legacy – About Us\nClimate Legacy is a project to engage and mobilize older Canadians in climate action\, through their voice\, their time\, and their money. Our vision is that Canada move steadily and effectively towards a zero net carbon economy in the next decade through actions at municipal\, provincial and federal levels. Seniors comprise a significant force in combatting climate change and are often overlooked in current mobilizing efforts\, which is why we are establishing a climate action platform and resource dedicated to Older Canadians. Please contact climatelegacycanada@gmail.com to get in touch.\n\n\n\n \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/finance-climate-risk-and-how-to-make-your-pension-fund-climate-friendly/
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SUMMARY:Dec. 1st\, Part 2 of 2: Finance\, Climate Risk\, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly
DESCRIPTION:Registration through Eventbrite\nTicket options:\n\n\nFree \n\n\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\nOnline Registration \n  \nWebinars are co-hosted by the Climate Legacy and Group of 78\n In partnership with SHIFT and the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa\nDownload Event PDF\n  \nThe crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis (webinar 1)\nNovember 24\, 2020. 1-2 pm ET \n\nWhere money is being invested in the global economy is an often overlooked\, but critical piece of the puzzle in solving the climate crisis. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for the first of two workshops exploring why shifting finance is essential for addressing the climate emergency and protecting investments from growing climate risks.\n  \nHow to engage those managing your retirement savings on climate (webinar 2)\nDecember 1\, 2020. 1-2 ET\nLearn how to take action to ensure your retirement savings are being invested in the solutions to the climate crisis\, not the causes. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for part two of our series exploring ways to effectively engage your pension fund and shift your personal investments to protect your savings while leaving a lasting climate legacy for future generations.\n  \nAdam Scott\, Director\, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health\nAdam is a climate change expert with more than 15 years of domestic and international experience in climate policy\, energy and finance. As Director of Shift\, he works with a broad range of stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. Previously\, Adam was Senior Advisor to international climate research and advocacy organization Oil Change International and was manager of Environmental Defence Canada’s Climate & Energy Program. Adam has advised governments\, provided expert media commentary\, and published numerous reports on the zero-carbon transition.\n\nClimate Legacy – About Us\nClimate Legacy is a project to engage and mobilize older Canadians in climate action\, through their voice\, their time\, and their money. Our vision is that Canada move steadily and effectively towards a zero net carbon economy in the next decade through actions at municipal\, provincial and federal levels. Seniors comprise a significant force in combatting climate change and are often overlooked in current mobilizing efforts\, which is why we are establishing a climate action platform and resource dedicated to Older Canadians. Please contact climatelegacycanada@gmail.com to get in touch.\n\n  \nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\, by Douglas Roche\,
DESCRIPTION:The Hon. Douglas Roche\, O.C. will discuss his newly released book\, Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era.\n \nThis event is hosted by Group of 78\, in collaboration with PeaceQuest\nSpeakers:\n\n\nWelcoming remarks by Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78\n\n\nModeration by Steve Staples\, Chairperson\, PeaceQuest Leadership and Education Initiative \n\n\nPresentation by Senator Douglas Roche (ret.)\, Canada’s former UN Ambassador for Disarmament and author of Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\n\n\nAudience questions and discussion\nOrder your advance copy of\, Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\, by Douglas Roche:\n $9.99 Kindle | $14.99 Paperback \nAvailable from: https://amzn.to/3oaEHLC\nHumanity faces a triple emergency: the global problems of climate change\, nuclear weapons\, and the coronavirus are monumental. Cooperation between governments and peoples has never been so necessary for common survival. The election of Joe Biden as U.S. president opens a new path for world cooperation for peace. In this up-to-the-minute book\, former Senator Douglas Roche\, a leading Canadian advocate for peace\, points to a new basis for hope in the urgent agenda for human security. The world – and Canada – must: \n\n\nspur development \n\n\ncurb global warming \n\n\ncut nuclear arms\n\n\n advance human rights\n\n\n\n“As our world begins to recover\, we will need the guidance of learned peacemakers. Recovery brings. Joe Biden and Douglas Roche together\, providing critical insights for years to come.” -Lieutenant-General (ret) The Honourable Romeo Dallaire\n\n“Extremely timely\, thoughtful\, deeply informed analysis of Joe Bidon the man and the president he may be.” -ElizabethMay M.P.\, former Leader\, Green Party of Canada\n\n“Brimming witJ1 political practically and generous humanity.” -Ernie Regehr\, former Executive Director; Project Ploughshares\n\nHon. Douglas Roche\, O.C.\, has specialized throughout his 40-year public career in peace and human security issues. Mr. Roche was a Senator\, Member of Parliament\, Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament\, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee at the 43rd General Assembly in 1988.Mr. Roche was the founding Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative. In 2010\, the City of Hiroshima named him an Honourary Citizen. He was awarded the Calgary Peace Prize in 2017. The author of 23 books\, his latest is Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era.
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SUMMARY:Israel and Palestine: Future Directions in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\nJanuary 13th\, 2021 \n1200 Ottawa / 1700 UK / 1800 Geneva / 1900 Ramallah \n  \nDownload Event Pdf\n  \nSpeakers \n\nDr Alaa Tartir\, \nInès Abdel Razek\, \nDr Shir Hever and \nDr Jeremy Wildeman \n  \n  \nModerator \n\nDr Ruby Dagher \n  \n  \nTicket options: Free or $10.00 (Suggested)\nOnline Registration \n \n  \nSeminar Theme\n  \n  \nThe resource rich Middle East and North Africa region is at a nadir following two tumultuous decades of localised crises\, regional power struggles and interventions from abroad. Multiple shattered states and societies\, from Libya to Syria\, Yemen and Iraq\, lie in their wake. Yet\, one contested region\, Israel and Palestine\, remains central to regional peace and stability. It remains in as regressive and dangerous a state as ever\, too. \n  \n  \nThis online seminar will explore the regional outlook of Israel\, Palestine and the broader Middle East. It takes into consideration four years of the Trump administration siding firmly with the Netanyahu government in Israel\, including support for de jure annexation of further Palestinian land. \n  \n  \nIt also offers insight onto peace agreements signed between Israel and Arab states\, for the first time since 1994; the further deterioration of Palestinian well-being\, which includes de facto West Bank land annexations and dystopian life conditions in Gaza; and Canada’s own current policy\, which such as includes renewing funding to Palestinian refugees and voting at the UN for the Palestinian right to self-determination while simultaneously voting against nearly every other Palestinian resolution and facilitating the sale of Israeli settlement goods in Canada. This forms the backdrop of this panel. \n  \n  \nOur panel of regional specialists will provide their 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). \n  \n  \n  \nBios\n  \n  \n  \nDr. Alaa Tartir is a Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, a Global Fellow at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)\, and Program and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka\, the Palestinian Policy Network. Tartir is the co-editor of Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019)\, and the co-editor of Political Economy of Palestine: Critical\, Interdisciplinary\, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2021). Tartir’s publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com\, and he tweets at @alaatartir \n  \n  \nInès Abdel Razek is the Advocacy Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy\, A Palestinian independent organization based in Ramallah. Prior to joining the PIPD in 2019\, Inès has held advisory positions to high-level diplomats and officials of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona\, the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi and the Palestinian Prime Minister’s Office in Ramallah\, mainly working on multilateral governance and development cooperation policies. Inès is also a policy member at the think-tank Al-Shabaka and an Advisory board member of the social enterprise BuildPalestine. Inès holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences-Po\, Paris. Twitter: @InesAbdelrazek \n  \n  \nDr. Shir Hever is an independent economic researcher and journalist. He is currently living in Germany\, and is a graduate of the Freie Universität in Berlin. His second book: Privatization of Security in Israel\, was published by Pluto Press in 2017. \n  \n  \nDr Jeremy Wildeman is a research analyst of global and Middle East politics\, human security and “development” aid. His specialisations include the impact of foreign aid/intervention on the Palestinians\, and Canada’s relationship with the Middle East. Since 2010\, he has explored in-depth (at the universities of Exeter\, Bath and Ottawa) the humanitarian\, development\, security and peacebuilding nexus of foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. These resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications and policy analysis. He has published several major works on Canada’s relationship with the Palestinians\, too. His scholarly work is supported by extensive field experience delivering humanitarian and development aid in the city of Nablus (from 2002 to 11)\, and afterward in multiple regions in crisis in the Middle East and Balkans. He is also a Fellow with HRREC-CREDP at the University of Ottawa and his Twitter is @jeremywildeman \n  \n  \nDr. Ruby Dagher has studied and taught at both Carleton and Ottawa Universities and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies\, University of Ottawa. Ms. Dagher has worked and consulted with the Canadian International Development Agency\, the Caribbean Development Bank\, the University of Central Asia\, and Global Affairs Canada. She has a doctorate in Public Policy and Administration Development from Carleton University and is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships.  She is trilingual in English\, French and Arabic. \n  \n  \nMs. Dagher has written widely in books\, journals and newspapers\, has presented in many media broadcasts and has organized and moderated many conferences\, workshops and panels. Among her academic and personal interests are international development and its many dimensions\, Middle East politics\, conflict\, social movements and power relations. \n  \n  \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \n  \nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. \n  \nPhoto Credits Wikimedia: Flag of Palestine.svg \, Flag-of-Israel(boxed).png
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LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Pandemic Relief\, Recovery\, and Reshaping the World Economy
DESCRIPTION:Webinar\nJanuary 13th\, 2021\n9:00-10:15 am Ottawa time; 2:00-3:15 pm UK time; 10:00-11:15 pm Malaysia time\nOnline Registration\n Ticket options:\nFree\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\nSpeakers \nJomo Kwame Sundaram\nSir Richard Jolly\nModerator\nRoy Culpeper\nSeminar Theme\nOur webinar will address the interrelated issues of short-term pandemic relief\, medium-term  recovery and\, in the long term\, reshaping the world economy. There are choices at every stage\, with implications for distributional equity among and within countries. There can be no return to the “old normal”–the world has changed\, and the climate crisis has intensified. Are there fundamental opportunities to reshape policy at the national level? And can the international rules of the game\, affecting trade\, investment and finance\, be reshaped to build a more equitable and sustainable world?\n  \n Bios\n Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute. He was a member of the Economic Action Council\, chaired by the seventh Malaysian Prime Minister (2018-20)\, and the 5-member Council of Eminent Persons appointed by him\, Professor at the University of Malaya (1986-2004)\, Founder-Chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)\, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development (2005-2012)\, Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-2012)\, and Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development\, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2012-2015). He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.\n\nSir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the IDS (Institute of Development Studies) at the University of Sussex. Richard Jolly was Deputy Executive Director(Programmes)in UNICEF 1982-95 and co-author of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report from 1996-2000. In 2001\, he was knighted by the Queen for services to the UN and International Development.\n\nHe co-directed the UN Intellectual History Project with Louis Emmerij and Tom Weiss\, the summary volume of which is UN Ideas That Changed The World (details on www.unhistory.org.He has written or co- written many articles and books on development\, the latest of which is UNICEF: Global Governance That Works\, to be published by Routledge in May 2014.\n \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/pandemic-relief-recovery-and-reshaping-the-world-economy/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon
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SUMMARY:Panel 5: Conclusions and Recommendations
DESCRIPTION: Download Event Pdf \nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021\, from 3:00 – 4:30 pm EST\n  \nWe are delighted to announce the details of our grand finale webinar in the Group of 78 six-session series of Webinars on the Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded. \n  \nThe focus\, as promised\, will be on key recommendations for action by governments – especially our own\, by parliamentarians and by civil society. We promise a lively\, thought provoking\, action-oriented discussion and question time! \n  \nThe five previous webinars in this series are all available on YouTube  \n  \nPanellists:\n\n Jane Boulden\, Professor\, Dept of Political Science\, Royal Military College of Canada\, with a particular focus on UN efforts to manage conflict (Speaking from Kingston\, Ontario)\n Walter Dorn\, RMC and Canadian Forces College professor\, author\, and a leading Canadian expert on UN peacekeeping including new technologies (Speaking from Toronto)\n Howard Peter Langille\, Author and lead expert on UN Emergency Peace Service and “sustainable common security”. (Speaking from Ottawa)\n\n  \nModerator:\n\nPeggy Mason\, President of Rideau Institute\, former Amb for Disarmament to the UN\, former peacekeeping trainer (1995-2014)\, (Speaking from Ottawa)\n\n  \nTicket options:\n\n$10.00 for general admission (register through Eventbrite)\nFull pass holders do not need to register; you have been automatically registered.\nFree General Admission\n\nOnline Registration \n  \nThank you to our co-sponsors!\n \n 
URL:https://group78.org/event/panel-5-conclusions-and-recommendations/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:February 23\, 2021 Recording - The Global Ascendency of China
DESCRIPTION:Webinar pdf\nFebruary 23rd\, 2021\n1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST (GMT -0050) \nOnline Registration\n Ticket options:\n\nFree\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\nGar Pardy\n\nModerator\n\nJames Christie\n\nSeminar Theme\nSince the death of Mao in 1976\, China has re-emerged as a global power.  In the process\, other countries are adapting their own policies and actions in order to maintain and further their own interests especially in economic and trade matters.  In a significant way\, most countries have seen considerable benefit from their economic relations with China and in the coming years that is likely to remain a dominant force in their relations with China.\nThere is every indication China intends to use its position as a global power to ensure\, initially\, its dominance in the Asia-Pacific region. Already\, there are strong indications that most countries of the region are inclined to accept that role for China especially as questions increase as to the reliability of the continuing United States role in the region.\nTaiwan will remain as the single most important issue in the coming months.  Should it decide to declare it is an independent country and seek international support then there can be every expectation China will respond economically and militarily.  Just how far it would go militarily\, remains as the key question and to a large extent that will be determined by how robust the United States will be in its support of Taiwan.  It is doubtful that other countries of the region\, except for Australia\, will want to engage in any significant way in direct support for a threatened Taiwan.\nTo some extent my book\, China in a Changing World\, provides a backdrop to this issue.  The book provides considerable material on the role of other countries in any direct confrontation with China and as we have seen by their actions\, most do not and will not engage in anti-China actions.  At the same time China will continue to promote a cooperative international environment for its own policies and actions.\nAs for Canada\, our China policy is dead in the water.  The continuing detentions of Mme Meng and Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and the inability or unwillingness of Ottawa to take action that would bring the matter to a conclusion remains as a rock preventing little to no flexibility for Canada to play any significant role.\n  \n Bios\nGar Pardy is a son of the Rock who for the last sixty years has travelled the world observing and dealing with its dangerous and wonderous manifestations.  First in Newfoundland\, and then on to Labrador\, Frobisher Bay\, India\, Kenya\, the United States and Central America and places in between\, Mr Pardy has dealt with large and small issues many of which were headlines in the daily reporting.  He is a graduate of Acadia (honours and valedictorian) and McMaster (Masters) Universities.  Since his retirement from the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2003 he has been a key witness in the work of commissions of inquiry on a variety of security matters.  He has written extensively on his experience and knowledge and his articles have appeared in numerous papers and he has appeared on the full range of radio and television news programs in Canada and beyond.  He has published two books\, Afterwords From a Foreign Service Odyssey (2016) and China in a Changing World (2020) and has contributed chapters in The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism (2008) and Omar Khadr Oh Canada (2012).  He lives in Ottawa with Laurel Pardy\, also a writer.  \n\nJames Christie\, The Rev. Prof. Dr. James Christie is an ordained minister of The United Church of Canada and Ambassador-at-Large of The Canadian Multifaith Federation. Professor Christie’s career encompasses: Professor of Whole World Ecumenism and Dialogue Theology at The University of Winnipeg; Dean of Theology\, University of Winnipeg; President of The Canadian Council of Churches; General Secretary of the 2010 G8 World Religious Leaders Summit; an executive member of the G8 and G20 Interfaith Fora; Chair\, World Federalist Movement; Chair\, Project Ploughshares; and former co-chair of The Group of 78.  His most recent publication on Religious Diplomacy is Religious Soft Power and The United Nations\, co-edited with Dr. Sherrie Steiner of Purdue University\, to be released by Lexington N.Y.\, Spring\, 2021.\n \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/pandemic-relief-recovery-and-reshaping-the-world-economy-2/
LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Blended Finance and the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION:WEBINAR: Friday\, March 12\, 10h00-11h20 Via Zoom\nCo-hosted by:\nthe School of International Development and Global Studies\,\nand the Institute of the Environment\,\nUniversity of Ottawa\nLink to Register:\nhttps://blended-finance-and-sustainable-development-goals.eventbrite.ca/\nLa version française\nEVENT PDF: DVM8111_BlendedFinance_Bilingue\nDescription\nThe Canadian government has embraced ‘blended finance’ as a way to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Blended finance entails the strategic use of development finance to mobilize additional sources of finance. Participants in this panel discussion will focus on answering two questions : What problems is this approach to development financing trying to solve? What are the risks and opportunities involved with ‘blended finance’?\nPanelists:\n1. Roy Culpeper\, Senior Fellow\, School of International Development and Global Studies\n2. Angella MacEwen\, Senior Economist\, Canadian Union of Public Employees\n3. Syed Sajjadur Rahman\, Senior Fellow\, School of International Development and Global Studies\n  \nModerators:\n1. Susan Spronk\, Director\, School of International Development and Global Studies\n2. Geoff McCarney\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Development and Global Studies\, and Director of Research\, Institute of the Environment.\nRegistration required. This event will be in English and delivered online through Zoom. Call-in details will be shared with registrants before the event date.\nIf you have any questions\, please contact events@smartprosperity.ca\n 
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SUMMARY:March 30\, 2021 Recording - Paying their due: reforming international corporate taxation in the global recovery.
DESCRIPTION:Webinar\nMarch 30\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400)\n \nTicket options:\n\n\nFree\n\n\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\n  \n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\nEdmund Valpy Fitzgerald\nToby Sanger\n\n  \nOutline:\n  \nMultinational companies\, particularly the ‘digital giants’\, avoid effective taxation of their profits and thus undermine fiscal provision of essential public services\, particularly in developing countries. Despite G20 mandated multilateral negotiations at the OECD since 2012\, progress has been slow – particularly during the Trump administration. In consequence a number of countries have recently introduced their own conflicting ‘digital levies’.\n  \nThe Independent Commission on the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT http://www.icrict.com/ ) is a significant actor in this debate\, lending technical expertise to civil society advocacy on progressive tax reform. The Commission has led international debate with four key precepts: (i) corporation tax is the best instrument to reduce inequality\, both within countries and between developed/developing countries; (ii) tax on pure profit (economic rent) is not a disincentive to productive investment and employment; (iii) multinationals must be taxed on global income and apportioned according to where profits are generated; and (iv) tax havens could be eliminated by ensuring an effective minimum tax rate worldwide.\n  \nThis February the EU adopted ‘country by country’ profit reporting by multinationals; US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin told G20 finance ministers that US “will engage robustly to address … the tax challenges of digitisation and a robust global minimum tax”; and the United Nations supported minimum tax rates and a new global tax forum. Prof. Valpy Fitzgerald will summarise the process of international tax negotiations at the OECD and explain how ICRICT has become an effective advocate for progressive reform and assess the potential for real progress in 2021 on progressive taxation of profits and wealth.\n  \nWhere does Canada stand? For too many years\, Canada has been a laggard in taking action on reforms to make multinationals pay their fair share of taxes\, waiting for a consensus to develop instead of taking any leadership or action outside of the OECD minimum. It was only in the last election that the Trudeau government committed to make sure that multinational tech giants pay corporate tax on the revenue they generate in Canada and make other reforms to reduce international corporate tax dodging. We still haven’t seen any action in this area since then\, but Toby Sanger is hopeful that\, with Chrystia Freeland in the Finance portfolio and a more positive administration in the US\, Canada will finally take more meaningful action.\n  \nSpeakers:\n  \nEdmund Valpy Fitzgerald\, from the United Kingdom\, is Emeritus Professor of International Development Finance\, Oxford University\, Fellow of St Antony’s College\, Oxford and an ICRICT Commissioner. Until recently\, he served as Head of the Department of International Development\, Oxford University. Engaged in research and publication on global capital flows\, open economy macroeconomics\, emerging market economies and international tax cooperation\, Professor Fitzgerald has acted as adviser to a number of governments (including the UK and Mexico)\, international institutions (including the UN and the OECD) and civil society agencies (including Oxfam and TJN).\n  \nToby Sanger has been director of Canadians for Tax Fairness since October 2018. Prior to that\, he worked as the economist for the Canadian Union of Public Employees\, chief economist for the Yukon government\, lecturer in economics\, principal economic policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance\, economic researcher at the House of Commons and as a consulting economist. He has a B.A. in economics from McGill and M.A. in Economics from Dalhousie University. \n He has written many reports\, articles and commentaries on various taxation and economic issues and frequently appears in the media\, on panels\, providing presentations and as an expert witness to parliamentary committees. He is currently on the council of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice\, the steering group of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation\, and the board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. \nMore Information about Canadians for Tax Fairness www.taxfairness.ca/
URL:https://group78.org/event/paying-their-due-reforming-international-corporate-taxation-in-the-global-recovery/
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SUMMARY:April 15\, 2021 Recording - Potentials and Pitfalls of Climate Responsible Investment
DESCRIPTION:A forum for individuals seeking to do good with their investment choices\nWebinar \nApril 15th\, 2021 \n11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT (GMT -0400) \n\nOutline: \nThis webinar will discuss “responsible investing”. For anyone interested in greening their investment portfolio\, it will delve into the challenges and opportunities of ensuring that their savings are actually aligned with the goals of protecting the environment and the climate. \n\nModerator:\nDr. Tessa Hebb \nSpeakers:\nTim Nash  \nMary Robinson \n \nTim Nash is the founder of Good Investing\, an investment planning firm with a focus on sustainable investing. Tim’s blog The Sustainable Economist has inspired thousands of Canadians to invest according to their values with model portfolios to reflect different definitions of sustainable investing. Tim writes a bi-weekly column for The Toronto Star\, and is regularly featured in publications such as CBC’s The National\, BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call\, and the Globe and Mail. \n  \nMary Robinson is Director of Research\, Policy & Collaboration with the Responsible Investment Association (RIA). In this role\, Mary promotes awareness of responsible investment in Canada through research and analysis\, advocates for policies that support responsible investment\, and facilitates collaboration among the RIA’s membership. Mary is a CFA® charterholder with more than 20 years of experience working with institutional investors\, including pension funds\, endowments and foundations\, in consulting and relationship management roles. Mary also holds the Responsible Investment Professional Certification (RIPC) designation. Mary believes that incorporating ESG factors in investment decision-making is consistent with the goal of achieving positive financial outcomes for the long term. She is keen to advance the understanding of RI among Canadian investors and to help the industry move towards full adoption of RI. \n  \nDr. Tessa Hebb is a Distinguished Research Fellow and past Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation\, Carleton University\, Canada. She is working with Ceres to expand its footprint in Canada. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. She has published many books and articles on responsible investing and impact investing\, including the volumes the Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment and SRI in the 21st Century: Does it make a Difference to Society. \n  \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support Group of 78 and Climate Legacys’ ongoing activities\, any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt. Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/potentials-and-pitfalls-of-climate-responsible-investment/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon,Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:April 21\, 2021 Recording - Hot Takes on the Federal Budget:  Where are we going with the Feminist Foreign Policy?
DESCRIPTION:Free Webinar April 21\, 2021\, 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT\n \nOn April 19\, the Canadian government will release its first budget in two years. We’ve lined up five foreign policy experts to share their quick reactions on what the budget says – or fails to address – in the fields of environment\, trade\, aid\, defence and diplomacy. The panellists will also briefly reflect on what the implications are for Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy\, to be followed by a Q&A period.  \nIntro\nDiana Rivington enjoyed a long career at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She is a former member of the Equality Fund Board and the Independent Review Committee of GAVI. \nModerator\nGauri Sreenivasan is Policy and Campaigns Director at Nature Canada\, where she advocates on issues of biodiversity\, climate and equity. She worked for many years also on international cooperation\, trade and human rights policy and on Parliament Hill. \nTopics and Speakers\nTrade\nLaura Macdonald is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and is a member of the McLeod Group. \nAid\nStephen Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa and a member of the McLeod Group. He has published widely on foreign aid\, including Canada’s. \nDiplomacy\nBianca Mugyenyi is the Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (www.foreignpolicy.ca). She is an author and former Co-Executive Director of The Leap. \nDefence\nPeggy Mason is a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the UN and\, since 2014\, is the President of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs. \nEnvironment\nAngela Keller-Herzog is a former Green Party Candidate and Co-coordinator of CAFES. \nQuestions and answer period\nWrap up \nRoy Culpeper is an economist who has devoted his career to social justice issues. His work has focused on development in Canada and internationally. \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by The Group of 78 and The McLeod Group
URL:https://group78.org/event/hot-takes-on-the-federal-budget-where-are-we-going-with-the-feminist-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:April 27\, 2021 Recording - Our Way or the Norway: Comparing Canada and Norway's Climate Actions
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)\nMarch 30\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n  \n \n  \nTicket options: \n\nFree\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n  \nSpeakers\n \n\nBruce Campbell\nNathan Lemphers\n\n  \nOutline: \n  \nThe event will compare and contrast the petroleum and climate policies\, performance and records of Norway and Canada. Both countries are major oil exporters\, close to major markets. It will examine their different systems of governments\, electoral systems and cultures. Discussion will include the most recent carbon commitments of each country in advance of COP 26\, Including Canada’s latest 2030 emission reduction target and the measures in the April 19 budget to reach this target. Finally. it will outline lessons for Canada from the Norwegian experience\, and also how Norway can build on its strengths. \n  \nSpeakers: \n  \nBruce Campbell  is former Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He is adjunct professor\, York University\, Faculty of Environmental Studies; and Senior Fellow\, Ryerson University\, Centre for Free Expression. He is the author of The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal Justice Denied\, James Lorimer\, 2018. He is the author of The Petro-Path Not Taken: Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth\, CCPA\, January 2013\, and a recent commentary comparing the two countries on climate action. \n  \nNathan Lemphers is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Smart Prosperity Institute. His current book project\, based on his dissertation\, examines the climate politics of Canada\, Norway and Australia. At Smart Prosperity\, Nathan is studying the regional political economy of electric vehicles. He obtained his PhD in political science from the University of Toronto where he was a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and Junior Fellow at Massey College. \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. www.group78.org
URL:https://group78.org/event/our-way-or-the-norway/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon
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SUMMARY:May 6\, 2021 Recording - Conflict in Ethiopia and Rising Tensions in the Horn of Africa
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)\nMay 6\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n \n  \nTicket options: \n\nFree\n$10.00 – Suggested\n\nSpeakers:\n \n\n Samuel Getachew\nWorku Aberra \nAnn Fitz-Gerald\n \n\n\nOutline: \nThe conflict in Ethiopia’s northern state of Tigray is being fought on two interconnected fronts. The first is physical and on the ground\, while the second is a dangerous information campaign projected via social media to influence\, draw in and even direct international reaction. At the same time\, the geopolitical interests of various major powers\, such as the US\, China\, the UK and France\, remain largely hidden. The evolving strategic interests and decisions of these global actors\, and those of regional actors such as Egypt\, Sudan\, Eritrea and Somalia\, will play a role either in reaching an equitable and sustainable solution to the violent dispute\, or in escalating it. \nSpeakers: \nSamuel Getachew is an Ethiopian Canadian journalist based in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. He has written for CNN\, Quartz Africa\, the Globe and Mail\, the Reporter in Ethiopia\, the National UAE and others.  \nHaving studied in Canada\, Dr. Worku Aberra credits Canada with launching his academic career. Dr. Aberra taught economics at McGill University in the late 1980s and has been professor of economics at Dawson College for more than 28 years. He is the Chair of Department of Economics at Dawson College\, Quebec\, Canada.  \nAnn Fitz-Gerald is the Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Professor in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Political Science Department. Ann’s research focuses on national security and the governance of the security sector. She has extensive experience in teaching\, research and consultancy capacities in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa region\, where she has also supported internationally-sponsored peace talks.  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. www.group78.org
URL:https://group78.org/event/conflict_in_ethiopia/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:May 25\, 2021 Recording - Religious Soft Diplomacy and the UN – Dialogue with the Editors
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)\nMay 25\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n \nSpeakers:\n \n\nSherrie M. Steiner\nJames Christie\n\nEvent Summary: \nThe engagement of religious diplomacy with the United Nations systems has become increasingly important for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The editors argue that effective religious diplomacy must reflect the great diversity of religious and spiritual expressions within human communities. Religious engagement in the United Nations systems has been understandably constrained by limited and formal organizational structures and conventions. The editors discus how increased engagement with marginalized voices of religion or belief contributes to a more inclusive public discourse. \n  \nBios \nSherrie M. Steiner\, PhD\, is assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Dr. Steiner’s research focus is on religious soft power\, environmental sociology and improvement of public health. This research is conducted transnationally in relation to the G20 Interfaith Forum and at the community level through collaborative relationships with public not-for-profit organizations. Dr. Steiner teaches courses on religion\, development\, social movements\, and the environment. \n  \nJames Christie\, The Rev. Prof. Dr. James Christie is an ordained minister of The United Church of Canada and Ambassador-at-Large of The Canadian Multifaith Federation. Professor Christie’s career encompasses: Professor of Whole World Ecumenism and Dialogue Theology at The University of Winnipeg; Dean of Theology\, University of Winnipeg; President of The Canadian Council of Churches; General Secretary of the 2010 G8 World Religious Leaders Summit; an executive member of the G8 and G20 Interfaith Fora; Chair\, World Federalist Movement; Chair\, Project Ploughshares; and former co-chair of The Group of 78. His most recent publication on Religious Diplomacy is Religious Soft Power and The United Nations\, co-edited with Dr. Sherrie Steiner of Purdue University\, to be released by Lexington N.Y.\, Spring\, 2021. \nDownload/view PDF flyer with book details  \nand the code to get 30% off purchase price \n \n\n  \n\n\nRELIGIOUS SOFT DIPLOMACY AND THE UNITED NATIONS: RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT AS LOYAL OPPOSITION \nEdited by Sherrie M. Steiner and James T. Christie \n“In this important and timely book\, the editors and contributors set out persuasively why and how religion is an essential component of—and that it should be valued for—its past and present influence on our global polity\, especially as a constructive challenge to the discharge of international politics. It is encapsulated in the concept of a loyal opposition\, tracing its origins and emphasis on peace and unity\, including religious freedom\, applying fundamental truths\, rights of women\, and how these can be more integrated into the way in which increasingly we need to govern our world in transnational ways.” \n—  Sandra Coyle\, Executive Director\, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy\n  \n“When we say that North Americans are secular\, we do not mean that they are not religious. The degree of religiosity is much higher here than in Europe\, but there is no official state religion. This volume is much needed\, and helps us to better understand both the political and the religious.” \n—  Amir Hussain\, Loyola Marymount University\n  \nABOUT THIS BOOK \nThe engagement of religious diplomacy within the United Nations systems has become increasingly important for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The editors argue that effective religious diplomacy must reflect the great diversity of religious and spiritual expressions within human communities. The editors argue that this can best be achieved through a worldview shift within the United Nations systems. Religious engagement in the United \nNations systems has been understandably constrained by limited and formal organizational structures and conventions. However\, the existing patterns of engagement mitigate against the very goals they seek to achieve. The editors argue that expanded\, yet measured\, religious inclusion will strengthen social cohesion in the global community. Contributors demonstrate how communities become stronger when marginalized minority voices are included in public discourse. The editors further argue that governance has a responsibility to ensure a safe environment for this interaction. The editors propose that the United Nations adopt the posture of “loyal opposition”\, that is inherent in parliamentary democracies\, to serve as a guideline for expanded religious engagement. The contributors advance this proposal with illustrations from multiple contexts that address a diverse array of social problems from perspectives rooted in theory and practice. \nABOUT THE EDITORS \nSherrie Steiner is assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University Fort Wayne. \nJames Christie is ambassador-at-large for The Canadian Multifaith Federation. \n  \n\n\n\nHardback:\nISBN 978-1-4985-9735-7\nApril 2021\nRegular price: $120.00\, £92.00 After discount: $84.00\, £64.40\n\n\nebook:\nISBN 978-1-4985-9736-4\nApril 2021\nRegular price: $45.00\, £35.00 After discount: $31.50\, £24.50\n\n\n\n*eBooks can only be ordered online. \n  \nEASIEST WAY TO ORDER WORLDWIDE: USE OUR WEBSITE \nhttps://Rowman.com/Lexington \n  \nIn North\, Central\, and South America and the Caribbean you can also\n\nCall Toll Free: 1-800-462-6420\nCall: (717) 794-3800\n\nOutside the Americas and Caribbean\, you can also\n\nCall: +44 (0) 1752 202301\n\n  \n*All orders from individuals must be prepaid. Prices are subject to change without notice. Shipping charges and sales tax will be added where applicable. Discount applies to these ISBNs only and may not be combined with other offers. eBooks can only be ordered online and must be purchased separately from print books at www.rowman.com/ebooks. For online purchases\, apply the promotion code during the checkout process. For email or phone orders\, provide the promo code LEX30AUTH21 for the 30% discount in your communication.
URL:https://group78.org/event/religious-soft-diplomacy-and-the-un-dialogue-with-the-editors/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Luncheon
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SUMMARY:June 8\, 2021 Recording - Public Funding for Fossil Fuels: From Part of the Problem to Part of the Solution
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)\nJune 8\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n\n \nSpeakers: \n\nVanessa Corkal\nMitchell Beer\n\n Moderator:  \n\nRieky Stuart\n\nOutline: \nWe will be discussing the nature and extent of funding from governments in Canada (federal and provincial) for fossil fuel production. Funding comes in different guises—including direct financing\, loan insurance\, subsidies and tax breaks. Our contention is that these various sources of financing should be identified and phased out as quickly as possible and reallocated to green technology and renewable energy. \nSpeakers: \nVanessa Corkal is a policy analyst with the International Institute for Sustainable Development\, where she focuses on fossil fuel subsidies\, just transition\, and green recovery. She combines her expertise in climate change mitigation with over nine years of documentary\, journalism and non-profit experience. Previous work experiences include climate change research\, communications and project management for the Prairie Climate Centre (University of Winnipeg) and the First Nation Adapt program (Crown-Indigenous Relations & Northern Affairs\, Government of Canada). She holds a Master of Climate Change from the University of Waterloo. \nMitchell Beer is Publisher of The Energy Mix\, a thrice-weekly e-digest on climate change\, energy\, and a carbon-free future. He traces his work on renewable energy to 1977\, on climate change to 1997\, and gave a TEDx Ottawa talk in October 2019 on how to build wider public demand for rapid decarbonization. A proudest moment was building a model wind turbine out of wood stir sticks with his then-11-year-old daughter\, and improv comedy practices are often the best part of his week. \nModerator \nRieky Stuart is a part-time consultant on organizational change and gender equality with UN organizations\, governments and NGOs. Her last staff position was as Executive Director of Oxfam Canada\, and she also worked as Deputy Director of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady Institute. She has been a volunteer teacher\, consultant and Board member\, and is currently affiliated with Gender at Work and with Climate Legacy. \n  \n\nIf you would like to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt. You can also donate and see other activities of the Group of 78 and Climate Legacy by visiting our websites. Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/public-funding-for-fossil-fuels-from-part-of-the-problem-to-part-of-the-solution/
LOCATION:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210616T150000
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SUMMARY:June 16\, 2021 Recording - Global Vaccine Inequity: a Tale of two pandemics
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary:\n\n\n\nCOVID19 has shone a harsh light on the pre-existing social and economic inequities among and within countries.  It has also used in the defining challenge of our time: vaccine equity.  This can be addressed with dollars\, dose sharing\, and domestic manufacturing.  Ultimately COVID-19 vaccine sustainable equity and regional security will depend on domestic production supported by sharing of technology\, know-how and intellectual property.  This is the world’s Mandela moment:  it always seems impossible until its done! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Singer is Special Advisor to the Director General\, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\, and Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization. He supports the Director General to transform WHO into an Organization sharply focused on impact at the country level. Dr Singer co-chaired the transition team; was the architect of WHO’s strategy and its “triple billion” target; supports colleagues to guide consistent strategy implementation of WHO’s programme budget\, results framework\, delivery stock-takes\, investment case\, and innovation strategy; and provides leadership to the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Wellbeing to strengthen collaboration among 13 multilateral agencies to accelerate the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBefore joining WHO\, Dr. Peter Singer co-founded two innovative\, results driven\, social impact organizations. From 2008-2018 Singer was Chief Executive Officer of Grand Challenges Canada. During this period Grand Challenges Canada raised CAN $450M to support 1000 innovations in more than 90 countries\, which have the potential to save 450\,000-1.6 million lives and improve 11-35 million lives by 2030. From 1996-2006 he was Sun Life Financial Chair and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. He is also Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn 2007\, Dr. Singer received the Michael Smith Prize as Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year in Population Health and Health Services. In 2011\, Singer was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to health research and bioethics\, and for his dedication to improving the health of people in developing countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (where he was Foreign Secretary)\, U.S. National Academy of Medicine\, and The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs a researcher\, Dr. Singer published over 300 articles\, received over $50 million in research grants\, and mentored hundreds of students. He studied internal medicine at University of Toronto\, medical ethics at University of Chicago\, public health at Yale University\, and management at Harvard Business School. He served his community as Board Chair of Branksome Hall\, an internationally minded school for girls. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. https://group78.org/
URL:https://group78.org/event/global-vaccine-inequity-a-tale-of-two-pandemics/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Luncheon,Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:July 6\, 2021 Recording - Community Owned Renewable Energy
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)July 6th\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nAaron ThornellDick Bakker\n\n\n\n Moderator:  \n\n\n\nRieky Stuart\n\n\n\nOutline: \n\n\n\nWe don’t have to wait for government\, private industry\, or institutional investors to finance the transition to renewable energy and green technology. Citizens and local communities can act by pooling their money and facilitate the climate action we need.The Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative (OREC) is a proven local for-profit energy cooperative that has a track record of building new generation  assets\, attracting growing membership while paying regular dividends. This webinar will discuss the experience of OREC as an alternative model to help us achieve Canada’s zero net carbon target. \n\n\n\n Speakers: \n\n\n\nDick Bakker One of the original founders of OREC in 2010\,  three terms on the board\, most recently as President. Founder of CoEnergy in 2018 (so that the OREC ‘Community Capital’ model could be extended to energy retrofit projects as the FIT program was ending.  Regulations required a new entity to address ‘ non-generation’ activities). For the last 17 years has operated an importation retail store in Manotick Station. For the first 25 year of his career\, had working in various telecommunication and computer firms. \n\n\n\nAaron Thornell is the Customer & Member Manager of both OREC and CoEnergy Co-operative. In this role he is responsible for member & investor management\, project development\, and overall operations of both co-operatives. Born and raised in Ottawa\, Aaron is passionate about the role that the co-operative model can play in addressing climate\, social\, and economic challenges and inequities. Aaron has a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis Xavier University in Community Development. \n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nRieky Stuart is a part-time consultant on organizational change and gender equality with UN organizations\, governments and NGOs. Her last staff position was as Executive Director of Oxfam Canada\, and she also worked as Deputy Director of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady Institute. She has been a volunteer teacher\, consultant and Board member\, and is currently affiliated with Gender at Work and with Climate Legacy. \n\n\n\nDisclaimer \n\n\n\nThe Group of 78 and Climate Legacy do not in any way offer financial or investing advice.  This webinar and the information in the presentation are provided for educational purposes only. Investing involves risk. Any personal investing decisions should be made only after individual due diligence and/or with the assistance of a registered financial adviser or broker. The Group of 78 and Climate Legacy takes no responsibility for any investment decisions that participants may make.  By attending this webinar\, you are signifying that you understand and agree to this disclaimer. \n\n\n\nPlease note that The Group of 78 and Climate Legacy provides information on issues\, products and services of general interest to its membership. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt. You can also donate and see other activities of the Group of 78 and Climate Legacy by visiting our websites. Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/community_owned_renewable_energy/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:August 10\, 2021 Recording - NATO: Solution or Problem?
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nPaul Robinson\n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\n\nRobin Collins\n\n\n\nThe Taliban are advancing in Afghanistan; Libya remains in a state of chaos; and NATO enlargement has heightened tensions on Europe’s eastern borders – NATO’s record in the past two decades is not looking particularly good. Nonetheless\, at its most recent summit\, the alliance broadened its horizons\, speaking in terms of containing China – a state far removed from the North Atlantic. In light of these developments\, Professor Paul Robinson of the University of Ottawa will discuss whether NATO is a solution to problems of international security or whether it is itself one of the problems. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nPaul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous works of Russian and Soviet history\, international security\, military history\, and military ethics. Professor Robinson writes regularly for the international press\, and is the author of the Irrussianality blog. \n\n\n\nRobin Collins has been active in supporting disarmament\, global governance\, peace and peacekeeping for more than 30 years. He is currently co-chair of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons\,  and secretary of Canadian Pugwash Group where he has presented on NATO nuclear policy\, and peacekeeping success and failure. Collins is past  chair of the Group of 78 working group on peace and security. He is also secretary of the World Federalist Movement – Canada\, where he focuses on UN peacekeeping\, UN Emergency Peace Service\, Responsibility to Protect and UN reform. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. https://group78.org/
URL:https://group78.org/event/nato-solution-or-problem/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Luncheon,Special Speaker Series
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