The Group of 78 joins peace and disarmament organizations across our country to honour the excellence and sacrifice Canadian peacekeepers. Sunday, August 9, 2026 was National Peacekeepers Day. As Walter Dorn, Professor at Royal Military College and Canadian Forces College, wrote recently: “It’s a day when we can honour those who served in peace operations, particularly those who… Continue Reading Honouring Canada’s Peacekeepers: The world needs more peacekeeping and less warfighting! – Walter Dorn
Writing in The Hill Times on August 7, 2026, Jenna Sapiano, John Packer, Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Meredith Preston-McGhie argue that Canada should lead an international effort to reinvest in peacemaking. Military budgets are skyrocketing. “Yet at precisely the moment when the need for peacemaking is greatest,” the authors write, “the number of negotiated peace agreements is falling. Peace… Continue Reading “A Perilous Decline in Global Leadership”: Canada Should Step Up to Increase International Funding for Peacemaking
How Canada engages with international organizations demonstrates our sovereignty, wrote Mark Kersten, a criminal justice professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, on August 6, 2026, in The Globe and Mail. But the way Canada is ignoring its duty to the International Criminal Court signals “that our sovereignty is up for negotiation,” he argues. Over the past… Continue Reading “Defending the ICC Today is About Defending Canadian Sovereignty”: Mark Kersten on Benyamin Netanyahu’s Breaching of Canadian Airspace
Reinventing the Architecture for Peace: Catalysing Citizens, Coalitions, and Capital The institutions created after World War II to maintain peace, security, and a rules-based international order are proving incapable of responding to the current polycrisis of coercive hegemons, ramped-up military spending, a new nuclear arms race, accelerating climate change, increasing migration, and inadequate ethical governance of AI. How… Continue Reading G78 Announces its 2026 Annual Policy Conference, October 9-10, at the University of Ottawa
On March 25, António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General, stated that the escalating Gulf War is spiralling “out of control.” He urged all nations involved in the conflicts to step back and allow “diplomacy to prevail” to avert “a wider war, a rising tide of human suffering, and a deeper global economic shock.” To aid in the diplomatic… Continue Reading UN Secretary General warns that Gulf War is “out of control” – appoints senior envoy to spearhead peace efforts
On June 25, 2025, eleven Canadian Senators – ten of whom are women – from five provinces issued a powerful statement urging Canada to uphold international humanitarian law in Gaza. “Respectfully, we call on the Government of Canada to immediately: 1. Protect and Fund Humanitarian Relief in Gaza, including UNRWA 2. Impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel… Continue Reading 11 Canadian Senators on Gaza: “Canada must do more. We cannot look away”
Economic precarity, the ingenuity gap, message distortion, and fragmentation of belief communities—these are four core factors driving the decline of democracy globally and in Canada. If we’re going to save, and even deepen, Canadian democracy, we must assess and respond to these issues through three lenses: worldviews, institutions, and technologies. That was the message of Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon,… Continue Reading Thomas Homer-Dixon: New Analytic Tools for Defending Canadian Democracy
Date: February 19, 2020
Reception 3:30-4:00, talk begins at 4:00 pm
Location: FSS 4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa
Presented by: CIPS and the Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament, bluntly warns that the struggle for nuclear arms control and disarmament is “going backwards” and calls for “a new vision” to re-establish arms control dialogue and negotiations. Continue Reading Securing Our Common Future: Why Disarmament Matters Today as Much as Ever
Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to humankind. But if we are to eliminate them from military arsenals, and displace their role in NATO’s strategic concept, what is the process that will make that happen, what will the world without nuclear weapons look like, and once we achieve that world, how do we sustain it? The Group of 78… Continue Reading Getting to Nuclear Zero: Building Common Security for a Post-MAD World Update
Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian will talk about bilateral complexities of Iran & the US, and will also shed light on the regional issues, different views and the way forward for fostering a sustainable peace and security. Continue Reading Iran, the US and the Regional Crisis
