SDF-Net
SDF-Net is an initiative designed to strengthen the Southern Ontario community of researchers whose interests encompass aspects of international security, Canadian foreign and defence policy, and related issues. To this end, SDF-Net seeks to bring together researchers from centres and programs supported through the Security and Defence Forum of the Department of National Defence, researchers from centres and programs that are not formally connected to the SDF program, and independent researchers, to explore the possibilities for cooperative research, teaching, and outreach activities.
The inaugural meeting of the SDF-Net, which was held on 28 November 2003, at York University, provided participants, who included faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and independent researchers from across Southern Ontario, with an opportunity to share ideas on trends and developments in international security and Canada's international security role, which reflected a range of theoretical and methodological approaches.
SDF-Net Events
Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Canadian Forces College, Toronto
SDF-Net: A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies?
16 April 2010
Gilmour Hall, McMaster University
Hamilton
The York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Political Science Department at McMaster University will be hosting A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies? The focus and purpose of this one day symposium is to discuss whether a distinctively Canadian approach to the study of Security and Defence issues has emerged and an examination of the terms of this approach.
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Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Canadian Forces College, Toronto
A Farewell to Arms?
27 November 2009
Room 305 York Lanes
York University
On 5 April 2009, US President Barak Obama signalled the reinvigoration of the process of nuclear arms control, a process most thought was an increasingly rusty relic of the Cold War. The commitment he made was sweeping, if long term: "So today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. I'm not naive. This goal will not be reached quickly – perhaps not in my lifetime. It will take patience and persistence. But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. We have to insist, Yes, we can".
Nuclear arms control does not stand in isolation from the management of other forms of weaponry, however. Indeed, the nuclear arms control process has been the centrepiece of the full range of measures designed to control the spread and use of weapons. When nuclear arms control all but stopped in the late 1990s, the result was that very little was possible in the control of the full range of military technology. With the renewed US commitment to nuclear arms control, even disarmament, the time is ripe for a (re)assessment of where we stand on issues of arms control. This SDF-Net event aims to reinvigorate discussion and thought on a numerous issues related to the manufacture, control and socio-cultural consumption of firearms and military weaponry.
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Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Canadian Forces College, Toronto
New Directions: Canadian Security and Defence in the era of Obama
22 May 2009
Room 280 York Lanes
Canadian Foreign, Security and Defence policy is, of course, determined in Ottawa, but it is conditioned by the choices made in Washington. Whether it is the commitment to Afghanistan, the lack of a commitment to Iraq, the security of our northern border, or, indeed, our southern border, the context within which the Government of Canada makes its security and defence policies is set in large measure by the Government of the United States. The administration in Washington has been making a decisive break with the foreign and security policies of its predecessor. The US traditionally assesses a new administration after 100 days. This SDF-Net will take the opportunity to reflect on the future of Canadian security and defence under the Obama administration, in light of what we are learning of it in its first 100 days.
Teaching Security
14 March 2008
Room 111 Gilmour Hall, McMaster University
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Popular Violence
26 October 2007
Room 305 York Lanes, York University
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SDF-Net: Developing Security?
23 March 2007
Room 111 Gilmour Hall, McMaster University
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Technology, Security, and Change
17 November 2006
280 York Lanes, York University
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Producing Security
10 March 2006
Gilmour Hall 111, McMaster University
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Violence and Responsibility in Situations of Conflict
11 November 2005
Room 280 York Lanes, York University
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sighting (in)security
8 April 2005
Room 111 Gilmour Hall, McMaster University
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The Military as a Canadian Institution
22 October 2004
305 York Lanes, York University
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Afghanistan: An SDF-Net Symposium
2 April 2004
Seagram Room, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
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SDF-Net
28 November 2003
Room 305 York Lanes, York University
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