High School Outreach Program

The YCISS High School Outreach Program is part of our centre’s effort to share our research expertise and to foster an informed public discussion on issues of Canadian and world politics, security, and defence. The High School Outreach Program is specifically designed to increase links between the research community and the local student communities by having our centre members volunteer to visit high school classrooms.  These researchers will lead sessions on issues related to their research which intersect with the curriculum in Canadian and world issues. Through this program, we hope to assist teachers in their efforts to provide students with an understanding of and ability to critically reflect on their location in the world community.  This will be accomplished by providing students with an opportunity to engage with scholars involved in the production of innovative research on issues pertaining to Canadian and international politics, security, and defence.

Potential session topics include:

• Canadian involvement in Afghanistan
• global security
• foreign and defence policies

• peace, social justice, human rights, democratization
• peacebuilding
• terrorism and state response to terrorism
• globalization
• militaries and militarization
• non-governmental organizations and civil society

If you are interesting in arranging an outreach seminar please contact Chris Hendershot, SDF Programme Coordinator ( hender@yorku.ca) or the YCISS Centre Coordinator (yciss@yorku.ca) or by phone: (416) 736-2100.