**NOTE** This website will be updated in Spring 2011

Ethics of International Intervention Research Project

In February of 2001 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded a Research Development Initiative Grant to the Ethics of International Intervention project proposal.

This project has two components: 1) a comparative study of cases of international military intervention and non-intervention in situations of widespread disruption, including Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo, and North Korea, and 2) an overarching analysis of the ethical issues involved in decisions to intervene on “humanitarian” grounds.

Please click on the "Ethics of International Intervention" link on the left for more information.

YCPE's CIDA Project with the Chinese Government:

As a result of a response to a Request for Proposal, a team of researchers and consultants selected by and under the direction of Professor David Shugarman, in association with the York University Centre for Practical Ethics (YCPE), was chosen as the Canadian Implementing Partner of a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) ethics project. The project involves working with Chinese delegations and conducting study tours for them of particular Canadian offices and agencies that contribute to ethical governance in various jurisdictions across Canada.

CIDA's Policy Option Project, POP- 2007-10, focuses on assisting the Chinese with their stated objectives of strengthening ethical conduct within the Chinese government and building an honest and efficient administrative system in conjunction with their policy reform agenda. The project links Canadian experts and policy-makers with an implementing partner from the Ministry of Supervision of the Peoples Republic of China.

Roundtable on Judicial Ethics: International and Comparative Perspectives

The workshop that took place in October 2007 was created to address key issues in judicial ethics. Both its scope and the substantive issues discussed were based on input from senior Canadian judges involved in monitoring the existing Ethical Principles for Judges and senior academics expert in public sector ethics and the judicial process. About 15 to 20 federally appointed judges were invited to attend. All of these judges are current or potential members of the Conduct Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council and past or current members of the Advisory Committee of Judges. Their input suggested that as we near the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Judicial Council’s Ethical Principles for Judges an opportunity for interaction between knowledgeable and committed academics and judges seems particularly valuable. Thus the York Centre on Practical Ethics assembled a small group of knowledgeable Canadians, including leading academics in judicial decision-making and the field of ethics generally.