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| “Children and War: Overview of the Research Project,”
opening address at the “Children and War: Impact” conference, Telus Centre, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. |
1 April 2004 |
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| “Envisioning a Global Rule of Law,” paper presented to the Research
Colloquium of the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the Department of Political Science at the
University of Alberta on “Globalization and the Re-Constitution of Security: European and
North American Perspectives,” Faculty of Law. |
October 23-24, 2003 |
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| “Rethinking the United Nations Information Function in an era of
Globalization and Global Governance,” for United Nations, Regional Meeting of United Nations
Information Centre and Service Directors in Western Europe: "Repositioning UN Public
Information in the 21st Century" Baden/Vienna. |
June 14-16, 2003 |
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| “Improving the Effectiveness of UN Arms Embargoes,” paper presented
at conference on The United Nations and Global Security, Centre of International Relations,
University of British Columbia. |
January 18-19, 2003 |
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| “Recent Trends in Peacebuilding Research,” paper presented at
conference on Democratization After War: State of the Art Thinking about Governance and
Peacebuilding, The Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. |
4-5 April 2002 |
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| “Building a new Global Financial Architecture,” paper presented at
the 2020 Global Architecture Conference, University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies. |
August 30-31, 2001 |
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| “International(ist) Citizenship: Canada and the International Criminal
Court” (with Antonio Franceschet), paper presented at a conference on “New
Perspectives on Canada’s International Policies” at the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa. |
4-5 May 2000 |
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| “Verification of Arms Embargoes: Research Issues,” paper presented
at conference on Canada and International Security: Setting the Research Agenda at York University
Centre for International and Security Studies, Toronto. |
24-25 February 2000 |
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| “Laying the Building Blocks for a Global Culture of Prevention,”
(with Annika Björkdahl, Lund University and the Swedish Foreign Ministry) for the Annual
Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, United Nations, New York. |
18 June 1999 |
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| “Towards a Global Culture of Prevention,” with Annika
Björkdahl, Lund University (and the Swedish Foreign Ministry) for the 40th Annual Convention
of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC. |
February 16-20, 1999 |
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| “Globalization and its Differential Impact on Small States,” for a
panel on Globalization organized by the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Austria
and Eastern European Studies, University of Alberta. |
October 29, 1998 |
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| “New Multilateralism: Critical Approaches,” for a panel on
Multilateralism and Regional Security at the Third Pan-European International Relations Conference
and Joint Meeting with the International Studies Association, held at Wirtschaftsuniversitat,
Vienna, Austria. |
16-19 September 1998 |
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| “Subsidiarity, Regional Governance and Caribbean Security,” with
Randy Persaud, paper presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the UN
System, San José, Costa Rica. |
25-27 June, 1997 |
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| “Multilateralism: Transcending Traditional Paradigms,” paper
presented at a conference on International Order in the 21st Century, McGill University,
Montréal, Québec. |
May 16-18, 1997 |
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| “Establishing Political Authority in Peace Maintenance”, paper
presented at a roundtable on Global Governance, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. |
May 2-4, 1997 |
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| “Subsidiarity Governance Arrangements in a Turbulent Era: A
Post-Internationalist Perspective,” paper presented at York University, Toronto. |
March 31, 1997 |
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| “The State/Society Complex Paradigm and New Multilateralism”, paper
presented at the Annual International Studies Association Convention, Toronto, Ontario. |
March 18-22, 1997 |
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| “Planetary Leadership,” paper presented at the Fifth International
Dialogue on Transition to a Global Society, sponsored by the Club of Budapest, Hungarian Cultural
Foundation, Budapest. |
25-27 October 1996 |
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| “Evolving Multilateralism and a Changing UN: Learning, Adaptation or
Reform,” paper presented at the Joint International Studies Association/Japan Association of
International Relations, Makuhari, Japan. |
September 20-22, 1996 |
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| “Reconceptualizing International Development and the Restructuring of
Global Economic Organizations,” paper presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Academic
Council on the United Nations System, ILO, Turin, Italy. |
June 1996 |
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| "Engineering Space in Global Governance: The Emergence of Civil Society in
Evolving Multilateralism," paper presented at the Final Symposium on the Future of
Multilateralism: Tasks and Political Foundations, Hotel Irazu, La Uruca, San Jose, Costa
Rica. |
18-19 December 1995 |
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| "Articulation of Global Interests in the Changing UN System," paper
presented at a symposium on the United Nations in the Twenty-first Century, United Nations
University, Tokyo, Japan. |
21-22 November 1995 |
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| "Developing a Rapid Reaction Capability for the UN: Recent
Proposals," paper presented at the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, City
University, New York City. |
October 11, 1995 |
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| "Reconceptualizing International Development and the Restructuring of
Global Economic Governance Structures," with Mireille Hutchison (University of Ottawa). Paper
prepared for the International Welfare Conference at the University of Calgary. |
July 1995 |
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| "United Nations Intervention and State-Building in Somalia: Constraints
and Possibilities," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the
United Nations System, New York City. |
June 1995 |
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| "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up Multilateralism: Two Quest for Global
Governance," paper presented at a Conference on Multilateralism sponsored by the University
of Montreal and Queen's University at Queen's University, Kingston. |
18 May 1995 |
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| "The Quest for Global Governance: Recent Proposals for Reforming the UN
System, Seminar presentation at York University, Centre for International and Security
Studies. |
3 May 1995 |
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| "The United Nations after Fifty," paper presented to the Political
Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield, UK. |
17 March 1995 |
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| "From Confidence Building to Cooperative Water Management in the Middle
East," with Hussein Amery, paper presented at the International Studies Conference,
Chicago. |
February 21-25, 1995 |
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| "Subsidiarity in Preventive Diplomacy: Making Chapter VIII
operational," paper presented at the Regional Workshop on Regimes in Conflict: Peacemaking
and Preventive Diplomacy in the New World (Dis)Order, sponsored by the Dalhousie University Centre
for Foreign Policy Studies and International Insights, at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia. |
October 14-16, 1994 |
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| "Towards a Subsidiarity Model of Global Governance: Making Chapter VIII of
the Charter Operational", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on
the United Nations System, The Hague, The Netherlands. |
June 1994 |
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| "Successes and Failures of United Nations Reforms", paper presented
at the International Studies Conference, Washington, DC. |
May 1994 |
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| "Is the UN Helping or Hurting the Third World", paper presented at an
International Day symposium organized by Champlain College/Bishop's University (March
1994) |
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| "Regional and Universal Institutions: Towards a Division of Labour in
Global Security", paper to be presented at the ACUNS/Arias Foundation Joint conference on
Regionalism, Costa Rica (January 1994). |
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| "Globo-Cop or Diplomat? UN Peace-keeping, Peace-making, peace-enforcement
and peace-building", paper presented at the Champlain/Bishop's University International
Relations symposium (November 25, 1993). |
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| “The Process of Managed Change in the UN System", paper presented at
the International Studies Association Convention, Acapulco, Mexico (March 23-27, 1993). |
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| "Historical Dialectics, Multilateralism and the Future of the UN",
paper presented at the United Nations Forum, Environmental Studies, York University (March 05,
1993). |
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| "The United Nations: Past, Present and Future", paper presented at
the Learning Unlimited Seminar Series, Etobicoke (February 1993). |
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| "Approaches to Problem of Change in the United Nations, paper presented at
the Annual Conference of the Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
(January 1993). |
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| "A new role for Canada in UN Reform: Comments on An Agenda for
Peace," submission to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade on
Canada and multilateralism in the 1990s (December 1992). |
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| "An Agenda for Managing Change in the United Nations," paper
presented at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University College
of Swansea, Wales (December 1992). |
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| "Towards a New Approach to Managing Change in the United Nations
System," paper presented at a Conference on "United Nations Reform Issues in the 1990s
and Beyond", York University (September 1992). |
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| "International Organization and Law: Proposed Programme and Implementation
Plan", for the Ford Foundation, New York (August 1992). |
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| "The United Nations Human Rights Regime: The Struggle between
Intertemporal and New International Law", paper presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the
Academic Council on the United Nations System. Held at the International Monetary Fund, Washington
(June 1992). |
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| "Canada's Role on the UN Security Council: 1989-90," paper
presented at the Canadian Federal Government Policy Conference, University of Waterloo, (May
10-12, 1991). |
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| "Canada, the United Nations and the Evolution of International
Governance", with David Dewitt and Keith Krause, paper presented at the Second Annual
Conference of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, (June 1989). |
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| "From the Management of Conflict to the Construction of Peace: Prospects
for Reform in the United Nations Security Council," paper presented to the La Marsh Symposium
on Conflict and Violence, (January 1990). |
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