We are excited to announce that the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and the Max Bell School of Public Policy (McGill University) have joined the Global Alliance for Peace Operations – a collective endeavour of more than 50 leading think tanks, research institutes and civil society organizations working on UN and regional approaches to peace operations (www.peaceoperations.net).
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Published on: 29 Apr 2025
Protecting the internally displaced: Sovereignty, agency and the localization of international norms
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Published on: 14 Apr 2025
March 11, 2025 | Director Jennifer Welsh spoke about Canada surviving under Trump administration on TVO Today. Canada's foreign policy has long been influenced by the USA. So an important question arises now, how does Canada navigate in this new political climate? And how independent can Canada really become from the USA?
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Published on: 1 Apr 2025
Director Jennifer Welsh co-edited a special issue of Global Studies Quarterly on Localization in World Politics. Welsh co-edited the collection of articles and co-authored the introductory essay. The article tackles four questions: (1) Why has localization become a focus of scholarly and policy attention? (2) What are the historical precursors of localization?
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Published on: 1 Apr 2025
March 13, 2025 | Director Jennifer Welsh and Jean-Marie Guéhenno were hosted by Juris Pupcenoks and Brian A. Mateo from Carnegie Council Podcast. The leading practitioners grapple with critical questions for UN peacekeeping operations as they present unique ethical challenges for both multilateral actors and local communities.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2025
March 18, 2025 | Director Jennifer Welsh wrote an article criticising the weak diplomatic response of UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to Donald Trump’s provocative comments suggesting Canada should become the 51st state of the United States.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2025
March 7, 2024 | Director Jennifer Welsh and Marie-Joëlle Zahar wrote a new article on The Future of UN Peacekeeping, which was published by Ethics and International Affairs. The authors discuss the challenges UN peace operations are facing and the rising expectations.
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Published on: 12 Mar 2025
August 19, 2024 | Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Arif Lalani and Jennifer Welsh in The Sunday Magazine podcast, about the current political upheaval in the Middle East in the latest round of ceasefire negotiations in Qatar. Concurrently, touching upon the new narrative in the Russia-Ukraine war after a surprise Ukrainian incursion in Russia's Kursk region.
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Published on: 21 Aug 2024
May 9, 2024 | On a podcast episode of Ideas with Nahlah Ayed, Professor Jennifer Welsh delves into answering on how inequality is undermining liberal democracy. Following the end of Cold War, the quest for peace, equality, and democracy didn't conclude; instead, it evolved into a multifaceted challenge. Greg Kelly, executive producer of IDEAS, discusses Jennifer Welsh's 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Return of History," on the 60th anniversary of Massey College.
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Published on: 14 May 2024
May 13, 2024 | The United Nations (UN) recently released its Agenda for Protection, a comprehensive document aiming to enhance protection as a collective responsibility across various UN components. It addresses previous shortcomings highlighted by inquiries into UN responses in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. However, it faces challenges due to geopolitical dynamics undermining multilateral action and UN entities’ limited roles in ongoing conflicts.
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Published on: 14 May 2024
In March 2023, Jennifer Welsh launched Tour de Table, a podcast series that joins leading scholars and policymakers for a bilingual discussion of the political, economic, and security challenges confronting our world and whether and how Canada is prepared to address them.
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Published on: 16 Apr 2024
In the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the landmark United Nations Security Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), the third annual Symposium of the RN-WPS – held at the University of Ottawa from February 8-10 - centered on the theme “Because We Must”. Rebecca Tiessen, Director of the Gender, Peace and Security Collaboratory, University of Ottawa was the host and co-organizer.
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Published on: 27 Feb 2024
February 14, 2024 | The Government of Canada lacks comprehensive strategy for evaluating international science, technology, innovation, and knowledge partnerships. Navigating Collaborative Futures, a new report from the Council of Canadian Academies, presents key elements of an evidence-based, data-enabled framework to evaluate new and existing international STIK partnership opportunities for Canada.
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Published on: 20 Feb 2024
January 25, 2024 | Research Network on Women, Peace and Security launched a new series, 'Research Postcards', to feature and summarize the recent work of their network members. The series aims to increase the representation and discoverability of the research conducted by their members.
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Published on: 25 Jan 2024
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