Participants of the April 14, 2008 "Concepts" Workshop in Montreal

David Carment is a Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He is also a NATO Fellow and listed in Who’s Who in International Affairs. In addition, Carment serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) project. He has served as Director of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies at Carleton University and is the recipient of a Carleton Graduate Students’ teaching excellence award, SSHRC fellowships and research awards, Carleton University’s research achievement award, and a Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Carment has held fellowships at the Kennedy School, Harvard and the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and currently heads a team of researchers that evaluates policy effectiveness in failed and fragile states. Recent publications on these topics appear in the Harvard International Review and Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science. He is a co-author of Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (OSUP, 2006).

Paul Koring is a staff correspondent in The Globe and Mail’s Washington Bureau and specializes in international security affairs and foreign policy. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Globe and other news organizations since 1980 and has spent significant time covering conflicts, international security and defence issues. His “on-the-ground” conflict coverage includes the Iran-Iraq war, the Palestinian intifada, Northern Ireland, the first Gulf War, and the Balkan wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He has made four trips to Afghanistan and has covered Canadian military overseas deployments in Haiti, Baghdad, Cyprus and Kandahar. Prior to moving to Washington in 1996, he was based in London from 1983 to 1995 and spent considerable time in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has also reported from South Asia, Russia and Africa. He has been an occasional guest lecturer at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, and at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center in Washington DC.

Michael Lipson is a Professor in the Political Science Department at Concordia University. His current research addresses international organizations concerned with threats to international peace and security, focusing on nonproliferation and international peacekeeping. He employs models drawn from organization theory and international relations theory to analyze agenda-setting, implementation and reform within, and interorganizational coordination between international organizations and their member states. He is the author of “A Garbage Can Model of UN Peacekeeping,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 13, 1 (January–March 2007), pp. 48–70; “Peacekeeping: Organized Hypocrisy?” European Journal of International Relations 13, 1 (March 2007); and “Transgovernmental Networks and Nonproliferation: International Security and the Future of Global Governance,” International Journal 61, 1 (Winter 2005–2006), pp. 179–98.

Stephen Saideman is Canada Research Chair in International Security and Ethnic Conflict and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy and International Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2001) and (with R. William Ayres) the forthcoming For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism and War (Columbia University Press), co-editor of the forthcoming Intra-State Conflict, Governments and Security: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Assurance (Routledge) and has published articles on the international relations and comparative politics of ethnic conflict in a variety of journals and edited volumes. Saideman spent a year on the US Joint Staff working in the Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate on Balkans issues as part of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. Saideman is now trying to understand the complexities facing military officers in multilateral operations in places like Bosnia and Afghanistan.

Jacques Semelin is a historian and political scientist. He teaches an interdisciplinary course on genocide and the process of prevention and reconciliation at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has been a consultant for the Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision (CAP) of the French Foreign Ministry and also for the Secrétariat Général à la Défense Nationale, and has advised several museums, including the Memorial for Peace (Caen) and the Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Lyon). Semelin is a member of the European Network of Genocides Scholars (ENOGS) and the International Genocide Scholars Association (IAGS). He is also on the international board of the Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of European History, and the contemporary history journal Vingtième Siècle. In 2006, he co-organized an international colloquium on “Rescue Practices Facing Genocides” at Sciences Po. Semelin is the author of Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press, 2008) and the founder and editor in chief of the recently launched Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (www.massviolence.org).

Abby Stoddard is a policy analyst in international humanitarian affairs, conducting independent and commissioned research in association with New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and the UK-based Overseas Development Institute. She is a founding member of Humanitarian Outcomes, an independent research team that provides evidence-based analysis to governments and international organizations on improving humanitarian response. Her prior work as an aid practitioner throughout the 1990s spanned such crises as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Stoddard is the author of Humanitarian Alert: NGO Information and its Impact on US Foreign Policy (Kumarian Press, 2006), along with numerous articles and published reports.

Scott Straus is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches classes on genocide, violence, human rights, and African politics. His book on the Rwandan genocide, The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006) won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. A second book on Rwanda, Intimate Enemy (Zone Books, 2006), includes transcripts of interviews Scott conducted with jailed Rwandan perpetrators and photographs taken by Robert Lyons. Scott also co-authored Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003), translated The Great Lakes of Africa (Zone Books, 2006), and has published articles related to genocide in Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Politics & Society, and Genocide Studies and Prevention. Before entering academia, Scott was a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Allan Thompson is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. He joined the faculty at Carleton in 2003 after spending seventeen years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation daily newspaper. Thompson worked for ten years as a correspondent for The Star on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, reporting on foreign affairs, defence and immigration issues. Reporting assignments for The Star also took him to such places as Rwanda, Zaire, Sierra Leone and Kazakhstan. He still writes a regular column on citizenship and immigration issues for The Star. In early 2006 he launched the Rwanda Initiative, a partnership between Carleton’s journalism school and its counterpart in Rwanda that has to date sent seventy-five Canadian journalists and journalism educators to Rwanda. Thompson also organized an international symposium at Carleton in 2004 on the role of the media in the Rwanda genocide and is the editor of The Media and the Rwanda Genocide (Pluto Press/Fountain/ IDRC, 2007).

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Participants of the November 10, 2008 Academic Consultation Workshop in Montreal

Elizabeth Bloodgood’s current research focuses on the roles non-state actors play in international regime formation. She is particularly interested in NGOs and their use of informational lobbying and protest tactics to influence national decision-makers regarding foreign policy and international regimes. In her past work, Dr. Bloodgood has examined the activities of Greenpeace, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Friends of the Earth, and Abolition 2000. In order to address questions about the influence of NGOs in foreign policy-making, she has surveyed decision-makers about their relations with NGOs and interviewed NGO staffers about their tactics and goals in both London and Washington, D.C. She is currently working on two other book projects, “A Practical Guide to Independent Research” with Tomoharu Nishino and Carrington Ward and “Protest Music in Politics: The Revolution Starts....Now” with Shelley Deane. Elizabeth Bloodgood is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. She earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University.

David Carment is a Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He is also a NATO Fellow and listed in Who’s Who in International Affairs. In addition, Dr. Carment serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) project. He has served as Director of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies at Carleton University and is the recipient of a Carleton Graduate Students’ teaching excellence award, SSHRC fellowships and research awards, Carleton University’s research achievement award, and a Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Dr. Carment has held fellowships at the Kennedy School, Harvard and the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and currently heads a team of researchers that evaluates policy effectiveness in failed and fragile states. Recent publications on these topics appear in the Harvard International Review and Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science. He is a co-author of Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (OSUP, 2006).

Don Hubert led policy development on Canada’s human security agenda within the Department of Foreign Affairs for nearly a decade. He has been responsible for specific initiatives on small arms proliferation, diamonds and other resources linked to armed conflict, the Responsibility to Protect, and corporate social responsibility. Most recently he was Director of the Human Security Division, with previous positions in Policy Planning, as Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs, and as Deputy to the Chair of the Kimberley Process. He has held post-doctoral positions at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University and the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown University, was a consultant for the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, and has taught at the School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

Michael Ignatieff was born and raised in Toronto, and earned his PhD from Harvard University where he taught from 2000-2005. Mr. Ignatieff is considered one of the world's leading experts in democracy, human rights, security, and international affairs. He has advised governments and world leaders on these questions, and has served on the International Commission on Kosovo and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Mr. Ignatieff has been a regular commentator, critic and broadcaster on television and radio in Canada, England, and the United States. As a journalist, he covered the Balkan wars for the BBC, the Observer and the New Yorker, reporting from Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Angola, and Afghanistan. In television, he has hosted many programs for the BBC, PBS and CBC, including the award-winning 1993 series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures "The Rights Revolution" on CBC Radio. Mr. Ignatieff is also one of Canada's leading writers and his books have been translated into 12 languages. The Russian Album (1987), a memoir of his family's experience in nineteenth-century Russia and its subsequent exile, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. In January 2006, Mr. Ignatieff was elected as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. He is currently the Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada.

Bruce Jentleson is a Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he served from 2000-2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He is a leading expert on a wide range of issues of American foreign policy, with a distinguished professorial record and extensive policy experience. In 2006-07 he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Spain. His publications include numerous articles as well as seven books including American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, a leading university text on American foreign policy (W.W. Norton, 2000; 2004; 3rd edition, 2007) and Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World, a project of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). His next books—After Bush: Getting Global Leadership Right; First Principles: Force and Diplomacy in the Contemporary Era; and Profiles in Statesmanship, are in the works.

Abby Stoddard is a policy analyst in international humanitarian affairs, conducting independent and commissioned research in association with New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and the UK-based Overseas Development Institute. She is a founding member of Humanitarian Outcomes, an independent research team that provides evidence-based analysis to governments and international organizations on improving humanitarian response. Her prior work as an aid practitioner throughout the 1990s spanned such crises as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Stoddard is the author of Humanitarian Alert: NGO Information and its Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy (Kumarian Press, 2006), along with numerous articles and published reports.

Amanda Sussman has an extensive background in advocacy work with organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Greenpeace, and she has been a policy adviser on human rights and refugee issues to senior cabinet ministers in the Canadian government. Ms. Sussman holds an M.A. in international affairs and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and her works include The Art of the Possible A Handbook for Political Activism. She lives in Toronto.

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Weiss is the interim executive director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He was awarded the Grand Prix Humanitaire de France 2006 and is chair of the Academic Council on the UN System. He was a co-editor of Global Governance, Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN System and of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He has written or edited some thirty-five books and numerous scholarly articles about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action and sustainable development.