In the summer of 2021, Max Bell School Master of Public Policy candidates Danielle Appavoo, Mariel Aramburu, Ricardo Chejfec, and Anil Wasif responded to a call to the academic community from Québec’s Minister of Finance, M. Eric Girard. The Minister was interested in proposals from universities and research groups, namely on (i) fiscal policy in Québec, (ii) the province’s economic potential and (iii) the fight against climate change.

Classified as: Cap-and-Trade, max bell school of public policy, mpp perspectives, carbon market, climate change, Green Economy, carbon pricing
Published on: 10 Feb 2022

2019 | By Anne-Marie Veillette and Priscyll Anctil Avoine, this chapter emerges from the two fieldwork investigations conducted in Brazil (2016) and Colombia (2015). The first one, carried out in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, aims to understand and analyse the nature and the impacts of police violence, as well as resistance emerging in that context, based on women’s testimonies.

Classified as: Priscyll Anctil Avoine, RNWPS, Research Network on Women Peace and Security, Conflict studies, South America
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Published on: 27 Jan 2022

June 2020 | Feminist scholars, including Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine, debate the impact of state architectures on women’s movements, partisan organizations and policy advocacy using innovative discursive, institutional and intersectional approaches.

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Classified as: Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, domestic violence, india
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Published on: 27 Jan 2022

June 2021 | Network member Priscyll Anctil Avoine focuses on the political issues underlying the particular place of women in insurgent combat and what it means to “re-embody” civilian society with a temporal glance at the 15-year transition in Nepal and the 5-year peace process in Colombia.

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Classified as: Priscyll Anctil Avoine, RNWPS, Research Network on Women Peace and Security, Conflict studies
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Published on: 27 Jan 2022

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM) is now under bi-faculty leadership! In addition to its original affiliation with the Faculty of Arts, CIRM is now attached to the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University. Nik Luka, CIRM Interim Director from 2020 to 2021, joins Pascal Brissette at the head of the centre. This change was made possible with the collaboration of Deans Mary Hunter and Jim Nicell.

Classified as: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal, Montreal, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering, Announcement, Pascal Brissette, Nik Luka, Mary Hunter, jim nicell
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Published on: 26 Jan 2022

November 24, 2021 | RN-WPS Youth Advisory Board member Muzna Dureid explains why Canada should modernize its immigration policy to respond to people displaced by climate change.

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Classified as: Muzna Dureid, climate change, RNWPS
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Published on: 17 Jan 2022

March 13, 2021 | Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Deborah Stienstra argue for recognizing the lingering impacts of colonialism and imperialism in producing disability and impairment in the South, while suggesting new ways of engaging with disabled girls and women through the use of inclusive, decolonial, and participatory methods.

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Classified as: Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, Deborah Stienstra, disability rights, disability justice
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Published on: 9 Dec 2021

Jess Reia recently concluded their BMO postdoctoral fellowship with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM). They are now undertaking new responsibilities as an assistant professor in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

Classified as: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal, Jess Reia, communication studies, night studies, NIghtlife, data governance, Montreal, research-action
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Published on: 8 Dec 2021

October 24, 2019 | Written by Dr. Siobhan Byrne, the objective of this article is to demonstrate how feminist approaches can provide a new language of both power and sharing to illuminate pathways through the ‘exclusion amid inclusion’ dilemma in power-sharing theory.

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Classified as: Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, Siobhan Byrne, Feminist praxis
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Published on: 8 Dec 2021

March 29, 2021 | Written by Dr. Julia Zulver, this article focuses on the Alianza de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida, an association of women in Putumayo who mobilized for peace and women’s rights during Colombia’s armed conflict. 

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Classified as: Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, Latin America, Conflict studies, Julia Zulver
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Published on: 8 Dec 2021

July 2, 2021 | Dr. Julia Zulver writes about The Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz (Association of Afro Women for Peace—AFROMUPAZ), an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogotá. The organization represents a differential brand of feminism in the face of historical and ongoing violence and provides community, support, and employment opportunities for dozens of women and their families.

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Classified as: Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, Latin America, Julia Zulver
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Published on: 8 Dec 2021

November 24, 2020 | Through this conversation between anthropology, law, and feminism, Tatiana Sanchez Parra and Teresa Fernandez-Paredes hope to shed some light on the opportunities and challenges of addressing a more comprehensive notion of reproductive violence in contexts of war and political transitions.

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Classified as: Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, reproductive rights, Latin America, Tatiana Sanchez Parra
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Published on: 8 Dec 2021

The Data for Society Hub (DSH) teams is proud to present the brand-new website of this project led by McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM).

Here you will find a detailed overview of the DSH’s mission and structure, its three modules, resources on governance issues and data science, as well as news and publications on the progress of the work.

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Classified as: Data for Society Hub, data governance, research partnership, data science, smart city, Montreal
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Published on: 2 Dec 2021

November 3, 2021 | As the 26th UN Climate Change Conference takes place in Glasgow, Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock ask is there adequate attention to gender in urban-climate-conflict discussions, pledges, and policies? Their blog is evidence of why the gender-climate-security nexus is critical for countries to be better prepared to deal with climate change.

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Classified as: Maryruth Priebe, Research Network on Women Peace and Security, RNWPS, climate change
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Published on: 25 Nov 2021

McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon that is one of the hottest topics in modern-day astronomy.

Published on: 18 Nov 2021

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