Security

The Courage to Challenge the Nuclear World Order M.V. Ramana and Zia Mian Economic and Political Weekly December 2nd, 2017 Find the full article here. Abstract: In July 2017, 122 countries adopted the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. To mark this historic achievement, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded […]

Peacebuilding and white-collar crime in post-war natural resource sectors Philippe Le Billon Third World Thematics: a TWQ Journal August 30th, 2017   Find the full article here. Abstract: Post-war situations can present an opportune context for white-collar crime in resource sectors – including corruption, tax evasion, land dispossession, and illegal resource exploitation. This paper investigates […]

Forced marriage as a political project: Sexual rules and relations in the Lord’s Resistance Army Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, University of British Columbia) March 14, 2014 Source: Journal of Peace Research, Page 1-13 This publication is available for download here. Abstract One of the most vexing contradictions about the Uganda originated rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army […]

Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law Benjamin Perrin, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law (Past Liu Faculty Associate) July 11, 2012 The face of modern warfare is changing as more and more humanitarian organizations, private military companies, and non-state groups enter complex security […]

WATCH: Press Conference to Call for a National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC (Video Link: https://vimeo.com/16850174) October 27, 2010 Member of Parliament Joy Smith and UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin are calling for the development of a comprehensive national action plan to combat human trafficking in Canada. […]

Review Conference of the International Criminal Court: A Brief Report on Outcomes Adam Bower, Liu Scholar, UBC July 12, 2010 As part of his doctoral dissertation research, Adam Bower recently attended (as an accredited observer), the first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court, held in Kampala, Uganda, between May 31 and June 11, 2010. […]

The Slave Trade is Back: Confronting Human Trafficking in Canada and Beyond Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 22, 2010 Adam Smith, William Wilberforce, and Abraham Lincoln are names synonymous with the defense of individual liberty. Together their lives overlapped to form a continuous 142-year period that ended just two years before confederation […]

Canadian Foreign Aid for Global Health: Human Security Opportunity Lost Jerry Spiegel, Liu Faculty, UBC Robert Huish, Professor, UBC May 27, 2010 Source: Canadian Foreign Policy This article examines how Canada has approached the challenge of global health in its foreign policy and the degree to which the much-discussed concept of human security has influenced this. […]

New US and UK Government Strategies Highlight the Climate Change and Security Nexus Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC February 22, 2010 This paper is a review of the climate change and security references contained within six different reports released since January 2010 by the governments of the United States and United Kingdom, including: […]

Crisis and Opportunity: The 1990 Nuclear Incident in South Asia Karthika Sasikumar, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC February 1, 2010 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415582117/ The edited volume “Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb“, edited by Sumit Ganguly and S. […]

A forewarned future. As ‘climate security’ forecast darkens, is Canada ready? By Mike Blanchfield July 25, 2009 Source: Canwest News Service, Ottawa Citizen Click here to view article: http://liu.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/A-FOREWARNED-FUTURE.pdf Thousands of people pour out of Manhattan onto the waiting armada of ships. The “October Surprise” has hit with a vengeance — a massive hurricane has flooded and […]

N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un tapped to succeed his father Paul Evans (Liu Faculty, UBC), Mark MacKinnon June 3, 2009 Source: The Globe And Mail, Wed Jun 3 2009, Page A1 The young man who looks set to inherit control of a nuclear-armed state is an avid skier and a fan of retired basketball player Michael Jordan and […]

Craigslist open to changing sex ads section in Canada, B.C. expert says; Law professor and Peel Regional Police have discussed the issue with the online classified ad company in an effort to prevent sexual exploitation of minors Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 10, 2009 Ben Perrin, a law professor at the University of […]

Arctic dwellers must be included in international talks: world Inuit group Michael Byers, Professor, UBC By Bob Weber April 28, 2009 Source: The Canadian Press Click here to read more. Although Inuit have observer status on the Arctic Council, they continue to be excluded from crucial meetings, said Michael Byers, a University of British Columbia law […]

Arctic sovereignty: Another threat runs silent and deep Michael Byers, Professor, UBC March 5, 2009 Source: The Globe and Mail, Thur 5 Jan 2009 Click here to read the full article written by Michael Byers on Globe and Mail.

The Promise of the Six-Party Process Wade Huntley February 10, 2009 Source: Foreign Policy in Focus Over the past two decades, engagement with North Korea by the United States and the rest of the world has waxed and waned. This vacillation is evident even in the past year. The Six-Party Talks process produced both optimistic progress […]

Testing Theories of Proliferation: The Case of Nuclear South Asia Karthika Sasikumar, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC January 1, 2009 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17471 The edited volume “Inside Nuclear South Asia“, edited by Scott D. Sagan features this chapter by Karthika Sasikumar, Postdoctoral […]

Presentation Slides – Climate Change and Security: A Canadian Perspective Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellow, UBC October 24, 2008 This publication is available for download. To download a copy, please click here. Climate change–induced events and conditions will pummel Canada with a myriad of significant, unprecedented security challenges in the coming decades. Yet the words […]

Nuclear Fallout — Implication of the World’s Nuclear Deal With India Wade Huntley September 30, 2008 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.asiapacific.ca/canada-asia-agenda/nuclear-fallout-implication-worlds-nuclear-deal-india Source: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada On September 6, 2008 the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) agreed to exempt India from its rules barring nuclear dealings […]

Sharing the burden of the past: Peer support and self help amongst former Lord’s Resistance Army youth Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC May 10, 2008 Source: Justice and Reconciliation Project and Quaker Peace and Social Witness – May 2008 In this new report, JRP and QPSW study the role of self-formed groups of formerly abducted persons […]

Our Child Sex Offender Laws Should Cross Borders Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC April 11, 2008 Source: The Lawyers Weekly, April 11, 2008 Our Child Sex Offender Laws Should Cross Borders By Benjamin Perrin Canada has only convicted one person in the last decade under our extraterritorial child sex offender law. This stands in […]

Democracies Violating Commitments: US and the Usage of Nuclear Weapons against Non-Nuclear States Saira Khan March 26, 2008 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://liu.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Democracies-Violating-Commitments.pdf Governments accountable to people for their choices are generally more responsible compared to the dictatorial ones. Thus, democratic states are unlikely to […]

With or Without Peace: Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Northern Uganda Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC February 28, 2008 Justice and Reconciliation Project Special Issue with Quaker Peace and Social Witness Field Notes, No. 6, February 2008 As parties to the historic peace process in Juba, South Sudan meet this week to discuss the final […]

The Right Way to End India’s ‘Nuclear Apartheid’ Wade Huntley December 20, 2007 Embassy, December 19th, 2007 OPED The Right Way to End India’s ‘Nuclear Apartheid’ By Wade L. Huntley Canada’s exemplary record as a steadfast advocate of global nuclear disarmament faces a moment of truth. A new deal to re-open global nuclear co-operation with […]

The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon – Updated 2nd Edition Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC David Capie November 20, 2007 The ending of the Cold War opened a new debate across the Pacific about the meaning of security and the new regional multilateral institutions that were beginning to emerge. The first edition of The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon, published […]

Transfer of detainees is complicity in torture Michael Byers November 14, 2007 TheStar.com, November 14th, 2007 The world’s most respected human rights organization has just accused this country of complicity in torture. Canadians should hang their heads in shame. Yesterday, the London-based international secretariat of Amnesty International released a 38-page report into detainee transfers conducted […]

Canadian Policy on Nuclear Co-operation with India: Confronting New Dilemmas Karthika Sasikumar, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Wade Huntley October 3, 2007 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/sites/liu/files/Publications/2Oct2007_CPNCI.pdf In July 2005, the United States and India announced a bold agreement to restore nuclear co-operation. The deal was immediately controversial, engendering […]

Abomination: Local belief systems and international justice Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC Justice and Reconciliation Project September 19, 2007 Over the course of two years of research in internally displaced persons camps in Acholi-land, JRP researchers have repeatedly come across the concept of kiir, or abomination: the local belief that certain transgressions of the moral order […]

Rebuilding American Security: Project Report Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC July 3, 2007 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://liu.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/RebuildingAmericanSecurity.pdf Purpose and Design The project was conceived in the summer of 2004 a few months after the invasion of Iraq and at a time when international concern […]

Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami Philippe Le Billon (Liu Faculty, UBC) & A. Waizenegger June 13, 2007 Le Billon, P. and A. Waizenegger (forthcoming 2007) “Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Abstract […]

Natural resources, armed conflicts, and the UN Security Council Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC May 30, 2007 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has taken an unprecedented number of measures to tackle links between natural resources and armed conflicts over the past decade. The main goal of these measures was to curtail access to […]

Northern Uganda: Challenges in the Pursuit of Transitional Justice Michael Otim April 18, 2007 This paper was presented at a conference entitled Transitional Justice and Peace Negotiations, held in Oslo from the 16 to the 18 of April, 2007. The conference was hosted by the Government of Norway and the International Center for Transitional Justice. Please click here to […]

Raising the Risks of War: Defence Spending Trends and Competitive Arms Processes in East Asia Brian Job (Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC) & Robert Hartfiel March 1, 2007 After a temporary downturn in many Asian states after the 1997 Economic Crisis defence expenditures are rising again. Although most states put internal and transborder security issues at […]

Human Security Brief 2006 Human Security Centre December 20, 2006 The Human Security Brief 2006 updates the 2005 Human Security Report‘s conflict trend data and analyzes the findings of two recently released datasets that track trends in war terminations and organized violence against civilians. The new data indicate that the post-Cold War decline in armed conflicts and related […]

Nuclear Threat Reliance in East Asia Wade Huntley November 1, 2006 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://unu.edu/publications/books/arms-control-after-iraq-normative-and-operational-challenges.html#overview Source: United Nations University Press “Arms Control after Iraq: Normative and Operational Challenges“, edited by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Ramesh Thakur, features this chapter by Wade Huntley, Director of […]

A World of Risk: The Current Environment for US Nuclear Weapons Policy Karthika Sasikumar, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC October 1, 2006 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/us_nuclear_weapons_policy_confronting_todays_threats/ The edited volume “U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today’s Threats“, edited by George Bunn and Christopher F. […]

War Affected Children & Youth in Northern Uganda: Toward a Brighter Future an Assessment Report Eric Stover, Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, UBC), Marieke Wierda May 29, 2006 Commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation & the Government of Canada As Uganda enters the 20th year of a bloody and intractable civil war in its northern region, the […]

Safeguarding Space Security: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research March 28, 2006 “Safeguarding Space Security: Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space” conference report now available from the Simons Centre. Co-organized by The People’s Republic of China, The Russian Federation, the Simons Centre for Disarmament […]

Field Notes: Alice’s Story: Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Reconciliation in Northern Uganda Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC Justice and Reconciliation Project February 22, 2006 The Justice and Reconciliation Project (Liu Institute for Global Issues and Gulu District NGO Forum) are proud to launch their new website and to present their first issue of Field Notes: Alice’s […]

Peace on Earth? Increasingly, Yes. Andrew Mack December 28, 2005 Seen through the eyes of the media, the world appears an evermore dangerous place. Iraq is sliding toward civil war, the slaughter in Darfur appears unending, violent insurgencies are brewing in Thailand and a dozen other countries, and terrorism strikes again in Bali. It is […]

Nuclear Cooperation with India: New Challenges, New Opportunities Karthika Sasikumar (Former Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC), Wade Huntley November 22, 2005 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/sites/liu/files/Publications/22Nov2005_Nuclear_Cooperation_with_India.pdf In November 2005, the Simons Centre convened a conference in Vancouver to explore the initial impact of the first India-US nuclear agreement of […]

2005 Human Security Report: War and Peace in the 21st Century Human Security Centre October 17, 2005 Funded by five governments, published by Oxford University Press, and three years in the making, the Report tracks and analyses trends in political violence around the world. Its findings are sharply at odds with conventional wisdom. It shows […]

Special Issue – International Insights: Rwanda and the Great Lakes: Ten Years On From Genocide Edited by Susan M. Thomson and J. Zoë Wilson July 21, 2005 This Special Issue of International Insights entitled, Rwanda and the Great Lakes: Ten Years On From Genocide (June 2005), will be of great interest to scholars and activists working towards peace in […]

Global Corruption Report 2005 Special Focus: Corruption in Construction and Post-Conflict Resolution Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC April 13, 2005 GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT 2005 Special Focus: Corruption in Construction and Post-Conflict Reconstruction The GCR 2005 focuses on corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction. The book includes expert reports on: Post-conflict reconstruction, with a detailed […]

Northern Uganda Human Security Update by Heidi Rose and Irene Sattarzadeh Heidi Rose, Irene Sattarzadeh February 17, 2005 This human security update outlines major issues and events from the conflict in Northern Uganda over November 2004 to mid February 2005. The update focuses on the humanitarian and security situation, the peace process, and international, regional, […]

Northern Uganda Human Security Update April-August 2004 Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, UBC), Coleen Heemskerk September 16, 2004 This human security update outlines the major issues and events from the conflict in Northern Uganda during a five-month period, April to August 2004. It focuses on the humanitarian and security situation, the Ugandan government’s military strategy as […]

The Inter-American Democratic Charter: Monitoring Progress and Problems Max A. Cameron, Pablo Policzer May 19, 2004 The Inter-American Democratic Charter, signed by the members of the OAS on 11 September 2001, presents an unprecedented opportunity to promote and defend democracy in the Americas. On 19 May 2004, senior policy makers convened at the Carter Center […]

The Secure City: Protecting Our Cities from Terrorist, Environmental, Other Threats in the 21st Century Liu Institute for Global Issues March 31, 2004 “Our survival depends on the survival of all cities,” said Lloyd Aworthy, senior associate of the Liu Institute for Global Issues. The Liu Institute at The University of British Columbia in collaboration […]

“The Hidden War, The Forgotten People”: War in Acholiland and it’s Ramifications for Peace and Security in Uganda October 30, 2003 The conflict in northern Uganda began on August 20, 1986 and has now gone on for nearly eighteen years without any end in sight. Whereas it was first part of a wider range of […]