Almost two years ago, Canada pledged to bolster United Nations peacekeeping missions with as many as 600 troops. The Canadian government finally made good on that promise when it recently …
Public events: On women, peace, security and South Sudan
Monday November 27 in Waterloo, Ontario 10:00 a.m. to noon Round Table: Women, Peace and Security: The Case of South Sudan Location: Boardroom • Balsillie School of International Affairs • 67 …
Getting to Nuclear Zero
Building Common Security for a Post-MAD World When: September 22-23, 2017 Where: Cartier Place Hotel 180 Cooper Street (just east of Elgin) Ottawa ON Please join us for The Group …
South Sudan at odds with itself
Author John Siebert Published in The Ploughshares Monitor Volume 35 Issue 1 Spring 2014 A total shattering of the peace has led to more than 10,000 deaths and upwards of one million …
Somaliland: A study in the potential of indigenous resources
Author Christina Woolner Christina Woolner is currently studying for an MPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. A former program officer with Project Ploughshares, she spent the last …
Teaching resources on peace and disarmament: Lessons from the classroom
Author Anna Jaikaran Anna Jaikaran belongs to no2nuclearweapons, a small Toronto group working toward nuclear disarmament through public education. The group has been giving presentations in high schools since 2010. Anna …
‘Massive use of chemical agents’
On Aug. 21, 2013, in and around the agricultural belt of the Ghouta, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, an attack on civilians involving the “massive use of chemical agents” was carried …
Damned Nations: Greed Guns Armies & Aid
We at Ploughshares highly recommend the new book by War Child’s Samantha Nutt, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid, the critically acclaimed account of her decades of work in …
Overlooking the Faults of Peacebuilding
Author John Siebert The Ploughshares Monitor Autumn 2009 Volume 30 Issue 3 In the course of a few weeks several summary or reflective articles on the meaning, value, and effectiveness of …
Human Security: Setting the Agenda for the Horn of Africa
Author John Siebert The Ploughshares Monitor Summer 2009 Volume 30 Issue 2 Achieving human security, briefly defined as “freedom from fear and freedom from want,” is the best guarantee that a …