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Book Review: How much does the Euro cost? (June 2017)

pdf available Joseph E. Stiglitz The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe W W Norton, 2016. Joe Stiglitz probably needs no introduction as he is among...

Preventing and addressing armed conflict: The role of women in the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (2017)

pdf available The international community continues not only to be challenged by its failure to prevent armed conflicts before they occur, but also in addressing them in a timely and...

Inter-community problem-solving for trust building: Subsidiarity in practice (June 2017)

pdf available The following is based on excerpts from remarks by Scott Cooper at the WFMCanada Montreal AGM, April 27, 2017 TRACK III DIPLOMACY AND LOCAL PROBLEM-SOLVING It may be...

The Women, Peace and Security Agenda – Canada prepares to renew its National Action Plan (June 2017)

pdf available It has been over fifteen years since the first United Nations Security Council resolution (1325) to specifically address the women, peace and security agenda. In that time, sixty-three...

ICC Update (June 2017)

pdf available Over the course of its existence, there have been 23 cases in nine situations brought before the International Criminal Court. Preliminary examinations are currently being conducted into situations...

Dynamics of Democracy and Inequality in the Context of Globalization (June 2017)

pdf available Below are excerpts from a paper presented at the International Inequalities Seminar, London School of Economics, 21 March 2017. “The work of a number of economists has documented...

The Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas conference and further updates on the COPLA campaign (June 2017)

pdf available In May 2017 I travelled to Windsor, Ontario, Canada to introduce the campaign for COPLA (Spanish acronym for the proposed Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court against Transnational...

March for Europe! (June 2017)

pdf available At least 10,000 European citizens, coming from all European countries, attended the March 25 “March for Europe!” organized by European Federalists. This year marks the 60th anniversary of...

Branch News (June 2017)

pdf available The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences took place from May 27 to June 2 in Toronto. WFMC Toronto Branch President Helmut Burkhardt led a workshop entitled...

Lloyd Axworthy meets Secretary-General Guterres (June 2017)

pdf available from left to right: David Milliband, Knut Vollebæk, Madeleine Albright, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and WFM International President Lloyd Axworthy In January, WFM International President Lloyd Axworthy, along...

Remembering Warren Allmand (June 2017)

pdf available WFM – Canada Past-President Warren Allmand, who passedx away December 7, 2016, was remembered by many Canadians for his contributions to parliament, the promotion of human rights, his...

Recent peacekeeping developments of interest

On June 19, CBC published an exclusive report titled “Internal documents detail UN peacekeeping requests for Mali, other hotspots: Canada has been offered a number of marquee command roles for...

Small update on Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

The progress report covering the year ending in March 2016, of the now-expired National Action Plan, was released earlier in June. Although there were hopes that the new National Action...

Canada’s international policies

Several important announcements regarding Government of Canada international policies rolled out in quick succession earlier this month. On June 6 Foreign Minister Freeland set out Canada’s foreign policy priorities in...

Toronto – Meetings and more meetings

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences took place from May 27 to June 2 in Toronto. On June 1, WFMC Toronto Branch President Helmut Burkhardt led a workshop...

TakeAction: Where is Canada's peacekeeping plan?

On Tuesday June 6, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered an address in Parliament on Canada’s foreign policy priorities. And the following day, National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjin released the...