Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP Bula vinaka to family, friends, colleagues, and readers near and far! I’m writing to you from Suva, Fiji, where I work as a Programme Assistant with the Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) team at the United Nations Development Programme’s Pacific Office. As a recent Master of International […]
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Notice of Dissertation Defence: Naireen Khan May 26, 2025 Abstract This multiple manuscript dissertation examines the international governance of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)—a non-sovereign territory— undertaken by an assemblage of actors doing both humanitarian and development work. The study puts forward the theoretical and methodological framework of place-making to analyze the effects of the
Top: Workshop participants at the BSIA in Waterloo, Canada. Bottom: Workshop participants at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe, Germany. By Nathalie Gatti and Ian Rowlands On 16 April 2025, academic researchers based at institutions in Canada and Germany connected for a half-day hybrid workshop. With groups of approximately 20
Photo credit: Madelyn Rawlyk By Madelyn Rawlyk, MAGG The root tasted like I thought it would: earthy but fresh, somewhat herbal (?), and reminiscent of rhubarb or raspberries maybe. I wasn’t quite sure what it was, but I had full confidence in the Dao woman who had handed it to me and motioned to eat.
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During reading week, students from our MAGG and MIPP programs proudly represented the BSIA at Model NATO at Carleton University in Ottawa. MAGG students Jacob Tuckey, Daniela Mendoza Ramirez, and Sameer Gupta, alongside MIPP students Josh Wright, Leonardo Lombardi, Hannah Barbero, and Fabrice Blais-Savoie, demonstrated their skills in diplomacy and strategic policy-making. A special congratulations
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The Balsillie School of International Affairs is hosting a half-day hybrid workshop on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, between Waterloo Region and German-based academic researchers. Focusing upon the ways in which individuals and communities advance a sustainable energy transition, the purpose is to share perspectives, with an aim towards transatlantic learning through comparative studies and exploring
The Balsillie Executive Institute (BEI), the BSIA’s executive development branch, is pleased to announce that registration is open for its Executive Certificate in Governance and Innovation in the Age of Intangibles, which will begin in May 2025. This cutting-edge, five-week online program is designed for professionals in government, the private sector, and the not-for-profit
Photo credit: Hannah Bacon By Hannah Bacon, MAGG In the final month of my position at UNDP Mexico, I have started to reflect on my time here and what it has taught me about the world, the intergovernmental sector and myself. Now, in a particularly harrowing time for gender equality and women’s rights in global
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The Balsillie School of International Affairs has launched the Balsillie Case Studies, a repository of evidence-based true stories of technology-related governance dilemma across various sectors globally. The case study series is one of the flagship programs of the Technology Governance Initiative that the BSIA launched in 2023. The cases present a wide range of the
Congratulations to BSIA PhD student Stephanie Rose Cortinovis, who was recently recognized by Carbon Removal Canada as one of six ‘Notable Women’ working in carbon removal in Canada. Stephanie was acknowledged for her contributions to marine carbon removal and her participation in a series of National Science Foundation workshops on climate interventions at the Earth
Photo credit: Neil Craik Warm congratulations to BSIA Faculty member Neil Craik, whose recent book, Liability for Environmental Harm to the Global Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2023), was awarded the 2024 Canadian Council on International Law’s Scholarly Book Award. The Award recognizes the work of Canadian scholars of international law that make a substantial contribution
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The Balsillie School of International Affairs is pleased to launch The Illiberal Order: 2025 Global Trends Report, an anthology of policy briefs prepared by students in the Masters of International Public Policy and Masters of Arts in Global Governance programs. The ninth in the series of Global Trends Reports, The Illiberal Order features briefs on
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