The School community is mourning the recent passing of our colleague Professor Hind Al-Abadleh, one of our valued BSIA Fellows and an active member of the STEM for Global Resilience Research Cluster. Hind was generous with her time, having recently mentored a team of master’s students who wrote a policy brief for Global Affairs Canada on […]
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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Jeremy Wagner who successfully defended his dissertation, “Foreign Models and Discordant Outcomes in Nairobi’s Food System” on January 15, 2025. We extend thanks to Jeremy’s supervisor, Dr. Jonathan Crush, committee members Dr. Andrea Brown and Dr. Bruce Frayne, internal/external examiner Dr. Chris Anderson, and external examiner Dr.
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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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Photo credit: Amila Sadic By Amila Sadic, MAGG Happy New Year! The last few weeks of 2024 at UNDP Tanzania have been busy but rewarding! In the last blog, I discussed the upcoming Annual STICE Meeting, which was a great success! For STICE, UNDP and partners had a presentation and panel discussion with the Ministry
The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Jonathan Hui who successfully defended his dissertation, “Heaven is quiet and technics are everywhere: Chinese cosmotechnics and dyadic approaches to technological practice in international relations theory” on December 11, 2024. We extend thanks to Jonathan’s supervisor, Dr. Audra Mitchell, committee members Dr. Christina Han and Jennifer Liu,
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Photo credit: Amila Sadic By Amila Sadic, MAGG These past few weeks have been action-packed! The end of the year is very busy for FUNGUO as this is the time that they select the next cohort of investees! To get a better understanding of what FUNGUO UNDP does, I will use the example of their
Pictured in photo: The Honourable Peter Boehm, Senator; BSIA Director Ann Fitz-Gerald; and The Right Honourable Joe Clark Warm congratulations to BSIA Director Ann Fitz-Gerald, who was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal on December 2, 2024 in Ottawa. The award recognizes Ann’s influential research and leadership in international security and conflict resolution, particularly
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Photo credit: Hannah Bacon By Hannah Bacon, MAGG It is hard to believe I have almost reached the halfway point of my time here at UNDP Mexico. Since my last post, I have been able to participate in numerous UNDP events and workshops, such as sessions on women’s leadership in business and participation in unions,
By Madelyn Rawlyk, MAGG I walked out of the airport into humidity that felt like a steam bath, greeted by a moody grey sky, distant skyscrapers and lush greenery insisting on populating the streets, sidewalks, and buildings. As a Canadian who had just left the oranges of autumn in Saskatchewan, the vibrancy of Viet Nam’s
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Current Position: Project Manager, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Suva, Fiji
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The Balsillie School of International Affairs is pleased to announce a new partnership with OVHcloud, a global cloud player and the leading European cloud provider, to help drive technical advancements and meaningful discussions on technology governance. The partnership was announced on November 5th at the inaugural “Canada’s Innovation Future” event, co-hosted by the BSIA, OVHcloud
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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Nisar Azmat Chattha who successfully defended his dissertation, “Climate-Geoengineering as Development: Applying the Capabilities Approach to Climate Responses in South Asia“, on October 2, 2024. We extend thanks to Nisar’s supervisor, Dr. Neil Craik, committee members Dr. Juan Moreno Cruz, Dr. Simon Dalby and Dr. Marie-Claire Cordonier
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