Conflict and Security

Jill Sinclair

Jill Sinclair

Jill Sinclair has been a member of Canada’s defence, international security and foreign policy community for most of her professional career. As part of the Strategic Joint Staff at the Dept of National Defence, she was appointed by the Chief of Defence Staff and Deputy Minister as Canada’s representative to the Ukraine Defence Reform Advisory […]

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nathan funk

Nathan C. Funk

Nathan C. Funk, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. His research and writing address religious and cultural dimensions of conflict and peacemaking, and focus especially on the Middle Eastern context, “Islamic-Western” identity conflict, local empowerment in international peacebuilding,

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Simon Dalby

Simon Dalby

Simon Dalby is a Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics. He is author of Pyromania: FIre and Geopolitics in a Climate Disrupted World (Agenda, 2024) Rethinking Environmental Security (Edward Elgar 2022), Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability, (University of Ottawa Press, 2020), and co-editor of Achieving the

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