The promised public consultations on Canadian defence policy are now underway. They are intended to contribute to the development of a “new” defence policy for Canada, to be released in early 2017. The process will engage Canadians beyond officialdom and the established “defence community,” and the outcome will have important implications for the kinds of key defence decisions that every Canadian Government faces – including major procurement projects and the deployment of forces overseas.

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Occasional briefing papers focussing on military policies and practices in the Arctic region by Ernie Regehr, O.C., Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation.
 

Occasional briefing papers focussing on military policies and practices in the Arctic region by Ernie Regehr, O.C., Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence, The Simons Foundation Canada.
The Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation (GRA) is an annual competition offered by The Simons Foundation Canada and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of Global Affairs Canada. The primary objective of the Awards is to enhance Canadian graduate level scholarship on non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament (NACD) issues.
W2I is a crucial initiative pursuing the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity. After Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, genocide experts understand that pressuring political leaders to stop crimes against humanity before they become genocides has been ineffective. We know what is happening and early warnings are sounded, but governments are slow to react and intervene effectively.
In 2002, The Simons Foundation and Project Ploughshares, in partnership with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada), initiated what has become the Outer Space Security Conference Series organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.  The Simons Foundation continued to partner with UNIDIR and fund the Outer Space Security Conferences held to inform the UN Conference on Disarmament on the issue of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space and the prevention of an arms race in outer space until our Space and Cyber Security programme was closed in 2020.
Visit the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa at the link below for this commentary by Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Commentary by Paul Meyer
Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Fellow in International Security 
Simon Fraser University
Published by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
June 25, 2025

 

 

Address by The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
Conference for Global Nonviolence
Calgary, Canada
June 21, 2025

Commentary by The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C.
Published by SANE Policy Institute: Security Alternatives for a New Era
June 20, 2025