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Paul Evans
Brian Job
Philippe Le Billon
Benjamin Perrin
Margaret Purdy
Jerry Spiegel
Lisa Sundstrom
Nahla Valji
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Climate Change and Security Project
Margaret Purdy, Leanne Smythe, Brian Job
Over the next 30 years, climate change will emerge as a global security concern of unprecedented scope and seriousness. Researchers at the Liu Institute for Global Issues have launched a research project which is exploring the security implications of climate change for Canada.
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The Climate Change-Security Nexus -- A Workshop
Leanne Smythe, Brian Job, Margaret Purdy
The potential security implications of climate change have received less attention in Canada than in many other countries. A January 28-29, 2010 workshop in Ottawa organized by a research team at the Liu Institute for Global Issues helped fill this gap.
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Trafficking in Persons in Australia
Andreas Schloenhardt
This project, carried out jointly between The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and The University of British Columbia, provides the first comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and their exploitation in the sex industry and other forms of forced labour in Australia.
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Treating Weapons Proliferation
Treating Weapons Proliferation, by Liu Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow David Santoro, is a chilling exploration of the dynamics of weapons proliferation and nonproliferation. Through an analogy with the disease of cancer, the book walks the reader through the history of the phenomenon, its growing complexities and changing dimensions, its causes and consequences, and the various policy responses currently available to address it. Taking stock of the nature and challenges of such responses, the book shows that there is no all-encompassing cure for weapons proliferation at the present time, only treatments of relative and contextual effectiveness. Simply put, weapons proliferation, like cancer, has no single cure, but it is a condition that can often be treated, sometimes successfully.
February 17, 2010
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Global Health and Human Security 2010
March 26, 2010 starting at 4:00 PM until March 28, 2010 3:00 PM
The International Relations Students Association (IRSA) and Médécins Sans Frontières UBC (MSF) present: Global Health and Human Security 2010.
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Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development
March 23, 2010
The turn of the century has been marked by the emergence of a "kinder and gentler" project of development. From the recalibration of the World Bank as a "knowledge bank" committed to the eradication of poverty to the ambitious campaigns that imagine the "end of poverty," a new global order is in the making. Through ethnographic attention to the Washington D.C.-Wall Street complex, Professor Ananya Roy will examine the circuits of capital and truth that structure "millennial development." In particular, she will focus on microfinance, which is an active frontier of "creative capitalism." But microfinance is also the site of important experiments in poverty policy, from the massive civil society institutions of Bangladesh to the Hezbollah militia of Lebanon. It is thus implicated in the emergence of counter-geographies of development.
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Thinking Globally, Acting Globally: From here
January 20, 2010
Join us for a showcase of the Liu Institute’s Global Issues research, followed by discussion
and a reception. Professors Benjamin Perrin, Natasha Affolder, and Erin Baines will briefly
present their ongoing projects and discuss the impacts of their research.
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