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Lecture 12
Monday March 28, 2011
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Outline
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Peacekeeping
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Peacekeeping
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Why is it so hard for Canadian leaders to forthrightly
champion what used to be our bread and butter —
creative, committed efforts to build a just and lasting
peace through sustained, impartial, inspired diplomatic
engagement.
Peggy Mason (2009)
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Article 3
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if we can be said to have a right to security, then it
follows that we have a right to certain environmental
goods that are crucial to our security.
John Barry and Kerri Woods (2009)
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It is increasingly acknowledged that human-induced
climate change represents a far more serious and
enduring threat to national and global security than
terrorism or the possession of weapons of mass
destruction by so-called ‘rogue states’.
Robyn Eckersley (2009)
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Environmental refugees
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Summary
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Citations & further reading
John Barry and Kerri Woods (2009) ‘The Environment’ in Michael Goodhart (ed)
Human Rights: politics and practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 316-333.
Peggy Mason (2009) ‘Back to the “Peace” in Peacebuilding: an old/new role for
Canada’, in Lucia Kowaluk & Steven Staples (eds.) Afghanistan and Canada, Montreal:
Black Rose Books. pp. 304-319.
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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/
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