at home and abroad

Canada and war?

Lecture 9
Monday March 7, 2011

PEACE ST 2BB3: Introduction to the Study of War

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

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 Outline

• Afghanistan
• Oka & Kanehsatake
• Ipperwash

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 ‘Somalia affair’

• Canada’s ‘national
shame’ (1993)

• ‘Bad apples’ or systemic

problems?

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 Citations & further reading
Sherene Razack (2004) Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping
and the New Imperialism, University of Toronto Press.

Graeme Smith (2007) ‘From Canadian custody into cruel hands Savage beatings,
electrocution, whipping and extreme cold: Detainees detail a litany of abuses by
Afghan authorities’ The Globe and Mail, April 23. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/
servlet/story/RTGAM.20070423.wdetainee23/BNStory/Afghanistan

Rick Westhead (2008) ‘Don’t look, don’t tell, troops told’ The Toronto Star, June 16.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/443954

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 Image sources
Pablo Picasso (1937) Guernica. Oil on canvas.
Unknown soldier in Iraq. Date unknown. sourced from http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/
some-interior-situational-sources-war-–-part-v/
Carlos Latuff (2003) War 2. Sourced from http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/War-2-27832944
Crimethinc (undated) War on Terror/Drugs. http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/
Shaney Komulainen of Canadian Press (Sept 1 1990) Pte. Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimeter
sentry, and Mohawk Warrior Brad "Freddy Krueger" Larocque face off. Remixed by dangerousbob,
deviantART — http://dangerousbob.deviantart.com/art/Okarom-Crisis-79679086