Event Series - Wiki Leaks: The Politics of Exposure
York Center for International and Security Studies and Canadian Pugwash Group present:
A World without Nuclear Weapons
A lecture by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
A veteran Canadian statesman, Hon. Douglas Roche has served as Progressive Conservative MP (1972-84), Canada's Ambassador for Disarmament (1982-89), and Senator (1998-2004). He is founder or co-founder of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), Middle Powers Initiative (MPI), and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) – all of which have played very significant high-level roles in the global disarmament movement. He is the author of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to thirteen more, including Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace (Novalis, 2008). His latest book, How We Stopped Loving the Bomb, was published in March by Lorimer Press. This year, Senator Roche has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Tuesday, September 20, 2:30-4:00
Room 626 York Research Tower
Call for Submissions: 2010-2011 YCISS Working Paper Series
The York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) is accepting submissions for the 2010-2011 YCISS Working Paper Series. Working Papers are succinct, informative papers that explore topical themes that reflect the centre’s research to stimulate feedback from other experts in the field. The Working Paper Series is anonymously peer-reviewed, and geared towards facilitating the development of works-in-progress. Accepted Working Papers are published electronically and made publicly available on the YCISS website.
Eligible papers may cover a diverse range of topics related to new security environments, contexts, and practices, and/or issues related to the politics of security and defence. The Centre is particularly interested in receiving submissions that deal with issues that have not traditionally been considered relevant to an understanding of military security and war – for example, migration and the movement of refugees, economic change, social disintegration, local political dynamics, terrorism, crime, and gender. Other key thematic areas include the deployment of security and defence capabilities in non-traditional roles, and critical engagements with political, ethical, and social justice issues related to current Canadian security and defence policies and practices.
For more information on thematic and topic areas, see the YCISS SDF mandate at:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/security/mandate.html
Past working papers can be accessed from the following link:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publish/papers.html
The Working Paper Series provides authors with an opportunity to receive reviewer feedback and editorial comments on a project, and authors may subsequently submit published Working Papers to scholarly journals. The series is an excellent means to put an idea into circulation so as to generate discussion and feedback from a broad audience.
Submissions to the YCISS Working Paper Series are expected to be 6000-8000 words in length, and formatted according to current MLA guidelines. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2011. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to:
Abhinava Kumar
YCISS Working Paper Series Editor
abhinava@yorku.ca
