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Isabella Sellar Voll

Isabella Sellar Voll

Isabella is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, with a specialization in Global Justice and Human Rights. Her research interests are focused broadly on the topic of genocide, and more specifically involve examining normative perceptions surrounding the eventfulness of genocide, as well as perceptions related to genocidal endings. Isabella received a

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Nico Saunders

Nico Saunders

Nico Saunders is a Ph.D. Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through the University of Waterloo. Her research explores the impact of UNESCO on urban security governance of World Heritage Cities, with particular focus on policy mainstreaming and urban militarization. This research also examines the aesthetic paradox of countering terrorism and

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Diana Fox Carney

Diana Fox Carney

Diana Fox Carney is an adviser to companies and investors that are seeking opportunities in the transition to a greener, more nature positive economy. She is a Senior Adviser on climate to growth equity fund, BeyondNetZero and to Africa investor, Helios Climate. She is also a Senior Advisor at geopolitics advisory firm, Eurasia Group. She began

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Justine Salam

Justine Salam

Justine Salam is a PhD (ABD) candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She specializes in energy studies and studied across Canada on topics such as the Oil Question in Iraqi Kurdistan and petro-political partnerships between China and the Middle East. Her current research examines the governance of royalties in Alberta’s extractive sector, including the

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Madeleine Pinard

Madeleine Pinard

Madeleine Pinard is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on creating environmental migration governance to mitigate human conflict. Madeleine Pinard completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto where she studied peace, conflict and justice studies. She then pursued a postgraduate certificate in

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Jinelle Piereder

Jinelle Piereder

Jinelle Piereder is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. Supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Jinelle works within the Ideological Conflict Project based at the Balsillie School, and focuses on ideological conflict within global governance and public policy-making. Using approaches and tools from complexity science, including Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM)

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Stephanie DeWitte-Orr

Stephanie DeWitte-Orr

Stephanie DeWitte-Orr is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Health Sciences and Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on innate antiviral immune responses, studying how cells detect when they are infected with viruses and how they defend themselves from virus infection. It is these defense mechanisms that her research program utilizes to

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Brad Hayes

Brad Hayes

Dr. Hayes directs and is Principal Technical Consultant for Petrel Robertson Consulting, Canada’s leading integrated petroleum geoscience consultancy. Dr. Hayes has more than 40 years of diverse professional experience. He has completed numerous major geoscience and multidisciplinary studies for companies, Crown corporations, and regulatory agencies, ranging from analyses of specific reservoir problems, to property evaluations,

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Patricia Greve

Patricia Greve

Patricia Greve is a political scientist who studies regional security governance, identity dynamics in security communities, transatlantic relations, and US and German foreign policy. Her work has been published in the Review of International Studies (on overlapping mechanisms of regional security governance; together with Emanuel Adler) and the Journal of International Relations and Development (on

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