Rural Electrification: Strategies for Distributed Generation
Rural Electrification: Strategies for Distributed Generation Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC November 1, 2010 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.amazon.com/Rural-Electrification-Strategies-Distributed-Generation/dp/9048195934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288721509&sr=8-1 For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and […]
WATCH: Press Conference to Call for a National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking
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. […]
Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking
Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC October 5, 2010 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit this page. Source: Viking Canada Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by […]
Review Conference of the International Criminal Court: A Brief Report on Outcomes
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 Prospects and Limits of Eco-Consumerism: Shopping Our Way to Less Deforestation?
The Prospects and Limits of Eco-Consumerism: Shopping Our Way to Less Deforestation? Peter Dauvergne, Former Liu Director, UBC Jane Lister, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 30, 2010 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://oae.sagepub.com/content/23/2/132.abstract Source: Organization Environment June 2010 vol. 23 no. 2 132-154 Abstract: Firms and […]
From obscurity to action: Why Canada must tackle the security dimensions of climate change
From obscurity to action: Why Canada must tackle the security dimensions of climate change Margaret Purdy, Leanne Smythe, Liu Scholars Alumni, UBC June 29, 2010 Source: International Journal Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. This was the consensus conclusion of the […]
The Slave Trade is Back: Confronting Human Trafficking in Canada and Beyond
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 […]
Trafficking in Persons & Transit Countries: A Canada-U.S. Case Study in Global Perspective
Trafficking in Persons & Transit Countries: A Canada-U.S. Case Study in Global Perspective Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 7, 2010 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://riim.metropolis.net/assets/uploads/files/wp/2010/WP10-05.pdf Source: Metropolis British Columbia Liu Institute Faculty Fellow Benjamin Perrin has just completed a new study on trafficking in persons […]
Canadian Foreign Aid for Global Health: Human Security Opportunity Lost
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. […]
Colombia: The Task of Reconstructing Historical Narratives
Colombia: The Task of Reconstructing Historical Narratives when the Conflict is Ongoing During the ‘Week of Memory’, September 20th – 30th 2010, the Commission of Historical Memory (MH for its name in Spanish) presents four major reports on emblematic episodes of the war in Colombia. Professor Pilar Riaño-Alcalá was one of the researchers in the […]
The Climate Change-Security Nexus Workshop Report
The Climate Change-Security Nexus Workshop Report Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellow, UBC Leanne Smyth, Liu Scholar Alumna, UBC Kate Neville, Liu Scholar Alumna, UBC March 25, 2010 The potential security implications of climate change have received far less attention in Canada than in many other countries. A January 28-29, 2010 workshop in Ottawa organized […]
Climate Change & Security Project: Research Guide
Climate Change & Security Project: Research Guide Leanne Smythe, Liu Scholar Alumna, UBC March 18, 2010 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please click here.
New US and UK Government Strategies Highlight the Climate Change and Security Nexus
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: […]
Major powers must stand together on Iran
Major powers must stand together on Iran David Santoro, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC February 19, 2010 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/major-powers-must-stand-together-on-iran-20100219-ol6f.html “It has never been clear whether Iran really wants nuclear weapons. But by yet again rejecting a UN proposal meant to end the […]
Crisis and Opportunity: The 1990 Nuclear Incident in South Asia
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. […]
Speaking Notes — Climate Change-Security Workshop
Speaking Notes — Climate Change-Security Workshop Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellow, UBC January 28, 2010 Speaking notes by Margaret Purdy at the Climate Change-Security Workshop in Ottawa on January 28, 2010. To download a copy of this publication, please click here.
Leapfrogging over development? Promoting rural renewables for climate change mitigation
Leapfrogging over development? Promoting rural renewables for climate change mitigation Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC January 12, 2010 Please click here to download the article.
Her name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara
“Her Name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara: Experiences in witnessing, internal displacement and conflict in Northern Uganda after 23 years of war” is a documentary project examining a documentary’s potentials and pitfalls in critical ‘witnessing,’ while exploring how voices from those living in the centre of conflict can challenge dominant media and humanitarian narratives. […]
Global Climate Change: Reaching Agreement in Copenhagen
Leading up to the Copenhagen talks this month, the Liu Institute and its faculty members have been involved in a series of events aiming to inform, highlight, debate, and discuss the challenges and opportunities that world leaders face in the task of agreeing on an ambitious, global agreement that meets the challenge set by science. […]
Former UN Special Rapporteur Calls for National Housing Program for Canada
Speaking at UBC’s Liu Institute on November 26, 2009, Miloon Kothari, a former UN Special Rapporteur, called for Canada to give greater legal recognition to housing rights and to undertake a national housing strategy. Mr. Kothari is the author of the 2007 UN Human Rights Council Report on Adequate Housing in Canada. Kothari explained that the […]
Why Canada must tackle the security dimensions of climate change
On October 29th, 2009, Margaret Purdy spoke to the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) International Conference, about the security implications of climate change for Canada. Margaret outlined why the climate change-security nexus is so critical for Canada and offered five recommendations for action. Margaret was a Visiting Scholar at the Liu Institute for […]
Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, where are you?
On September 14, 2009, the Africa Canada Accountability Coalition, a student led initiative at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, spoke before the Canada Senate Committee for Human Rights about why and how Canada should address mass rape in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo; regions where mineral exploitation fuels a conflict […]
A forewarned future. As ‘climate security’ forecast darkens, is Canada ready?
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 […]
Complex political perpetrators: reflections on Dominic Ongwen
Complex political perpetrators: reflections on Dominic Ongwen Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC June 30, 2009 Source: J. of Modern African Studies, 47, 2 (2009), pp. 163–191. Please click here to read this journal article. ABSTRACT Dominic Ongwen is an indicted war criminal and former child soldier in one of the world’s most brutal rebel organisations, the Lord’s Resistance […]
N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un tapped to succeed his father
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 […]
Dealing with North Korea’s Tests
Dealing with North Korea’s Tests Wade Huntley June 19, 2009 Source: Foreign Policy in Focus North Korea has conducted its second nuclear test. The big question now is whether the world’s response will recognize the unique features of this most recent intensification of the crisis, and so effectively answer Pyongyang’s latest challenge to global nuclear stability […]
Canada must do more to curb human trafficking: report
Canada must do more to curb human trafficking: report Benjamin Perrin, Past Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 17, 2009 Source: CTV.ca Click here to read more. To see Professor Ben Perrin on CTV AM, click here. To see Professor Ben Perrin on CTV British Columbia, click here.
Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang, and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’
Historians and Chinese World Order: Fairbank, Wang, and the Matter of ‘Indeterminate Relevance’ Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC June 12, 2009 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/Historians-and-Chinese-World-Order.pdf It is a great honour and daunting prospect to take part in this special event celebrating the career of […]
Craigslist open to changing sex ads section in Canada, B.C. expert says
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 […]
Hybrid vehicles produce scant environmental benefits, high cost
Despite major costs to taxpayers in the U.S. and Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce environmental benefits, a UBC study says. The study finds that hybrid sales have come largely at the expense of small, relatively fuel-efficient, conventional cars, rather than large SUVs, trucks and vans, which […]
Does Climate Change Qualify as a National Security Issue? A Canadian Perspective
Does Climate Change Qualify as a National Security Issue? A Canadian Perspective Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellow, UBC May 1, 2009 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please click here. Source: Institute of Policy Studies, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand The volume “Climate change and security: planning […]
Arctic dwellers must be included in international talks: world Inuit group
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 […]
Harper a laggard in grasping security risks of climate change — An oped in the Toronto Star
Harper a laggard in grasping security risks of climate change — An OpEd in the Toronto Star Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellows, UBC Leanne Smythe, Liu Scholar Alumna April 6, 2009 Source: TheStar.com, Mon April 6 2009 Margaret Purdy Research associate in the Centre of International Relations at UBC Leanne Smythe PhD candidate in political science at […]
Arctic sovereignty: Another threat runs silent and deep
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.
Kill Every Living Thing: The Barlonyo Massacre
Kill Every Living Thing: The Barlonyo Massacre Geoffrey Opobo, Geoffrey Odong, Emon Komakech, Ketty Anyeko, Boniface Ojok, Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, UBC), Letha Victor February 28, 2009 Source: Justice and Reconciliation Project, Field Note Series This report is the first comprehensive public documentation of the massacre of over 300 civilians in Barlonyo in February 2004 by […]
The Promise of the Six-Party Process
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 […]
Real Nuclear Disarmament
Real Nuclear Disarmament Wade Huntley January 8, 2009 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2009/09jan08/nuclear.html Source: UBC Reports | Vol. 55 | No. 1 Wade Huntley identifies major steps that may be taken towards nuclear disarmament in 2009.
Testing Theories of Proliferation: The Case of Nuclear South Asia
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 […]
CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2008 – Security Through Cooperation
CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2008 – Security Through Cooperation Brian Job, Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC Erin Williams December 9, 2008 Please click here to view the full PDF. Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Regional Security Outlook 2008: Security through Cooperation The security crises of 2008 should serve as a wake-up call […]
Presentation Slides – Climate Change and Security: A Canadian Perspective
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 […]
Canada and China: Beyond Engagement
The fundamentals of Canada’s approach to the PRC were put in place by the government of Pierre Trudeau after recognition in 1970. They engendered a durable consensus that lasted for a generation, writes SPPGA Professor Paul Evans.
At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation
At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation Wade Huntley Edited by David Krieger and Richard Falk October 14, 2008 Source: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The book is edited by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) President David Krieger and NAPF Board Chair Richard Falk. The contributing authors are leading scholars and activists in the nuclear disarmament movement, […]
Inside Rwanda’s gender revolution
Inside Rwanda’s gender revolution Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC October 13, 2008 Source: guardian.co.uk Last month, Rwanda achieved something no other country had ever done before: produce a legislature in which women outnumber men. The results of last month’s parliamentary elections gave women 45 out of the 80 seats in the chamber of deputies, or 56%. This surpasses […]
Nuclear Fallout — Implication of the World’s Nuclear Deal With India
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 […]
Household Level Fuel Switching in Rural Hubei
Household Level Fuel Switching in Rural Hubei Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC August 20, 2008 Source: PESD Publications, Stanford University Program on Energy and Sustainable Development – Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Based on an analysis of a rural household survey data in Hubei province in 2004, we explore patterns of residential fuel use within […]
Clean Cooking Fuels and Technologies Workshop June 16-17, 2008 – Istanbul, Turkey
Clean Cooking Fuels and Technologies Workshop June 16-17, 2008 – Istanbul, Turkey Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC June 17, 2008 A pre-conference workshop was organized in conjunction with the 31st International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) international conference in Istanbul on the 16th and 17th of June, 2008. The main objectives of the workshop were […]
Seismic Change in the Middle Kingdom
Seismic Change in the Middle Kingdom Yves Tiberghien, Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC June 5, 2008 Source: The Asia Pacific Post In the wake of the tragic Sichuan earthquake, something big is astir in China. It was not just the earth that shook on this peaceful afternoon of May 12, 2008. Society and the political world moved […]
Integrating Health and Human Security into Foreign Policy: Cuba’s Surprising Success
Integrating Health and Human Security into Foreign Policy: Cuba’s Surprising Success Jerry Spiegel, Liu Faculty, UBC Robert Huish June 1, 2008 Source: The International Journal of Cuban Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2008 This article provides a case study of how Cuba’s foreign policy initiatives in primary health-care provision has led to a practice that […]
Sharing the burden of the past: Peer support and self help amongst former Lord’s Resistance Army youth
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 […]
From açaí to access: distributed electrification in rural Brazil
From açaí to access: distributed electrification in rural Brazil Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC May 8, 2008 Source: International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 90-117 – 2008 Abstract Purpose – To rigorously examine success and failure in the use of small scale technologies for rural electrification. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured primary field interviews plus […]
The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor: Gaining a Competitive Edge by Doing Security Differently
The Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor: Gaining a Competitive Edge by Doing Security Differently Margaret Purdy, Past Liu Visiting Fellow, UBC May 1, 2008 Source: Canada Asia Commentary, No. 51 – May 2008 Current security programs cannot respond adequately to the complex, interconnected Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. The individuals, governments and businesses leading the Gateway Initiative […]
Our Child Sex Offender Laws Should Cross Borders
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 […]
Iran in the World: The Nuclear Crisis in Context
Iran in the World: The Nuclear Crisis in Context Soushiant Zangenehpour, Wade Huntley April 10, 2008 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/sites/liu/files/Publications/Iran_in_the_World.pdf “Iran in the World: The Nuclear Crisis in Context” provides the presentations and discussions from the first conference of the Simons Centre’s program on […]
Democracies Violating Commitments: US and the Usage of Nuclear Weapons against Non-Nuclear States
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 […]
From Protracted Conflict to Strategic Partnership between China and India: Can India and Pakistan Follow the Same Path?
From Protracted Conflict to Strategic Partnership between China and India: Can India and Pakistan Follow the Same Path? Saira Khan March 26, 2008 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please click here. The two regional protracted conflict rivals of Asia, India and China, have found ways to become […]
With or Without Peace: Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Northern Uganda
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 […]
From Rogue Nation to World Leader
From Rogue Nation to World Leader Michael Byers, Professor, UBC January 1, 2008 TheStar.com, January 1st, 2008 “So, how does it feel to be the citizen of a rogue state?” The British professor asking the question was serious. We were in Cambridge, England, and yet the words “Kyoto,” “Bali” and “Canada” were on many lips. […]
The Right Way to End India’s ‘Nuclear Apartheid’
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 […]
Security through Cooperation: Furthering Asia Pacific Multilateral Engagement
Security through Cooperation: Furthering Asia Pacific Multilateral Engagement Erin Williams Brian Job, Liu Faculty Affiliate, UBC December 4, 2007 The CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2007. CSCAP Launches its New Flagship Publication. Please click here to link to the full document CRSO 2007 Executive Version. There is a real and urgent need for multilateral cooperation and […]
The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon – Updated 2nd Edition
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 […]
Smaller State Perspectives on the Future of Space Governance
Smaller State Perspectives on the Future of Space Governance Wade Huntley November 16, 2007 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14777620701615145 Source: Astropolitics 5:237–271 Current debates over impending developments in military and civilian uses of space raise deeper questions of how the expanding human presence in space […]
Transfer of detainees is complicity in torture
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 […]
A Denuclearized Korea
A Denuclearized Korea Wade Huntley October 15, 2007 Source: The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2007 Re “Kim Jong-il’s Last Card” (Op-Ed, Oct. 8): Jason T. Shaplen and James Laney offer a rarity: a new idea on North Korea. China taking physical possession of Pyongyang’s fissile materials on the latter’s territory has consequences beyond their own […]
Canadian Policy on Nuclear Co-operation with India: Confronting New Dilemmas
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 […]
India’s Emergence as a “Responsible” Nuclear Power
India’s Emergence as a “Responsible” Nuclear Power Karthika Sasikumar, Former Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC October 1, 2007 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40204339?seq=1 Source: International Journal, Vol. 62, No. 4, Autumn, 2007, pp. 825-844 After years of careful diplomacy aimed at establishing its identity as a […]
Abomination: Local belief systems and international justice
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 […]
Making Small Work: Business Models for Electrifying the World
Making Small Work: Business Models for Electrifying the World Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Faculty, UBC September 1, 2007 Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #63 Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University http://pesd.stanford.edu/ Despite over a century of investment in electric power systems, there are roughly 1.6 billion people who lack access to electricity service, […]
Canada, by fate and geography, is destined to be an Arctic country
Canada, by fate and geography, is destined to be an Arctic country Michael Byers, Professor, UBC August 20, 2007 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.thehilltimes.ca/policy_briefings/082007_pb.pdf For many people, looking at the Canadian Arctic from a foreign-policy perspective seems counterintuitive. Surely the main issues up north concern […]
Sovereignty will solve the Northwest Passage dispute
Sovereignty will solve the Northwest Passage dispute Michael Byers, Professor, UBC August 11, 2007 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit the Globe and Mail. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has prudently decided to refurbish an old wharf on northern Baffin Island for use by the navy and […]
Peace in northern Uganda, but whose justice?
Peace in northern Uganda, but whose justice? Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, UBC) & Adrian Bradbury August 2, 2007 This publication is available for download. To download a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=imprimable&id_article=23087 August 1, 2007 — We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the ongoing peace talks between the government of Uganda and […]
The Cooling of Hearts
The Cooling of Hearts Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC Justice and Reconciliation Project July 17, 2007 Community Truth-Telling in Acholi-land examines community-level mechanisms that might facilitate a process of truth-telling at that level in northern Uganda. We explore the desires and fears of the war-affected populace in learning the truth about the now 21-year-old conflict. […]
Intent for a Nation
Intent for a Nation Michael Byers, Professor, UBC July 11, 2007 Intent for a Nation A compelling call to arms to reinvigorate our vision of Canada’s place in the world, from one of the best of our new generation of public intellectuals. Why do Canadians think so small? “We’re a serious country. But our clout—we […]
Rebuilding American Security: Project Report
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 […]
U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context: Tempting Goliath’s Fate
U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context: Tempting Goliath’s Fate Wade Huntley June 30, 2007 This publication is not available for download. To purchase a copy of this publication, please visit: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4497262 Source: Asian Survey, Vol. 47, Issue 3, pp. 455–480 The collapse of the US-North Korea Agreed Framework in 2002 not only initiated a new […]
Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
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 […]
Notes and Comments: Policing the High Seas: The Proliferation Security Initiative
Notes and Comments: Policing the High Seas: The Proliferation Security Initiative Michael Byers, Professor, UBC June 5, 2007 Michael Byers analyzes the proliferation security initiative, announced in May 2003. In December 2002, Spanish marines, acting on request from the United States, boarded the So San, a North Korean freighter crossing the Arabian Sea. To read the […]
Natural resources, armed conflicts, and the UN Security Council
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 […]
Ending the Vacation of Canada’s Travelling Sex Offenders
A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) finds that Canada has fallen behind Australia and the United States in cracking down on its travelling child sex offenders, and calls on the RCMP to pro-actively enforce Canada’s so-called “child sex tourism” laws. The study is particularly timely with the recent extradition of […]
Remembering the Atiak Massacre: April 20, 1995
Remembering the Atiak Massacre: April 20, 1995 Justice and Reconciliation Project Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC April 30, 2007 This edition of Field Notes recounts the struggles faced by northern Ugandans in coping with the aftermath of the atrocity in the absence of justice. Drawing upon extensive eyewitness testimonies, the report details the massacre of over 300 […]
Northern Uganda: Challenges in the Pursuit of Transitional Justice
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 […]
The Haunting of Alice: Local Approaches to Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda
The Haunting of Alice: Local Approaches to Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC April 18, 2007 Through the story of a former rebel fighter, this article examines some of the justice and reconciliation challenges in northern Uganda today. While talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Government of Uganda […]
Social and environmental determinants of Aedes aegypti infestation in Central Havana: results of a case–control study nested in an integrated dengue surveillance programme in Cuba
Social and environmental determinants of Aedes aegypti infestation in Central Havana: results of a case–control study nested in an integrated dengue surveillance programme in Cuba Pagliccia N, Ibarra AM, Bonet M, Jerry Spiegel (Liu Faculty, UBC), Ouellette V, Yassi April 1, 2007 Social and environmental determinants of Aedes aegypti infestation in Central Havana: results of […]
Global Political Violence: Explaining the Post-Cold War Decline
Global Political Violence: Explaining the Post-Cold War Decline Andrew Mack March 31, 2007 In this ongoing series of Working Papers, the International Peace Academy has asked leading experts to undertake a mapping exercise, presenting an assessment of critical challenges to human and international security. Andrew Mack, Director of the Human Security Centre, Liu Institute for Global Issues, […]
Raising the Risks of War: Defence Spending Trends and Competitive Arms Processes in East Asia
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 […]
Constructing Multilateralism in an Anti-Region: From Six Party Talks to a Regional Security Framework in Northeast Asia?
Constructing Multilateralism in an Anti-Region: From Six Party Talks to a Regional Security Framework in Northeast Asia? Paul Evans (Liu Faculty, UBC) January 1, 2007 Does multilateralism have a future in Northeast Asia, or is it an empty dream that tantalizes but inevitably disappoints? Is it like the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s eighteenth-century conception of a […]
Securing transparency: Armed conflicts and the management of natural resource revenues
Securing transparency: Armed conflicts and the management of natural resource revenues Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC January 1, 2007 Le Billon, P. (2007) “Securing transparency: Armed conflicts and the management of natural resource revenues”, International Journal. Winter 2006/7: 93-107. You may view the full publication here.
Geographies of War: Perspectives on ‘Resource Wars’
Geographies of War: Perspectives on ‘Resource Wars’ Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC January 1, 2007 Le Billon, P. (2007) “Geographies of War: Perspectives on ‘Resource Wars’”. Compass 1(1): 1-20. Abstract Natural resources figure prominently in studies of geographies of wars. This article reviews the three main perspectives on so-called ‘resource wars’: geopolitical, political economy and political […]
Human Security Brief 2006
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 […]
The Potential Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
The Potential Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa Jerry Spiegel, Liu Faculty, UBC December 6, 2006 Approximately 14 million women of child-bearing age are living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Women with HIV infection have between 25% and 40% lower fertility than noninfected women. As antiretroviral (ARV) therapy becomes increasingly accessible in […]
Nuclear North Korea: Old Worries, New Challenges
Nuclear North Korea: Old Worries, New Challenges Wade Huntley November 14, 2006 Dr. Wade Huntley, Director of the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research, was invited by the Science and Technology Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to speak on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. Dr. Huntley presented a talk entitled Nuclear North Korea: Old Worries, New Challenges in […]
Nuclear Threat Reliance in East Asia
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 […]
Young Mothers, Marriage and Reintegration in northern Uganda: Considerations for the Juba Peace Talks
Young Mothers, Marriage and Reintegration in northern Uganda: Considerations for the Juba Peace Talks Erin Baines, Liu Faculty, UBC Justice and Reconciliation Project October 23, 2006 The Justice and Reconciliation Project is pleased to announce a new report, Young Mothers, Marriage and Reintegration in northern Uganda: Considerations for the Juba Peace Talks. This issue of Field […]
Accountability and Reconciliation and the Juba Peace Talks: Beyond the Impasse
Accountability and Reconciliation and the Juba Peace Talks: Beyond the Impasse Justice and Reconciliation Project Erin Baines (Liu Faculty, UBC) October 18, 2006 The Justice and Reconciliation Project is pleased to share a new report, Accountability and Justice and the Juba Peace Talks. As peace talks between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of […]
A World of Risk: The Current Environment for US Nuclear Weapons Policy
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. […]
When US scholars speak of “sovereignty”, what do they mean?
When US scholars speak of “sovereignty”, what do they mean? Michael Byers (Professor, UBC) Adriana Sinclair (Former Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC) September 28, 2006 This article examines American conceptions of sovereignty -as they appear in the writings of US scholars of international law, and those US international relations scholars who deal with international law. At first […]
Fatal Transactions: conflict diamonds and the (anti)terrorist consumer
Fatal Transactions: conflict diamonds and the (anti)terrorist consumer Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC September 1, 2006 Le Billon, P. (2006) “Fatal Transactions: conflict diamonds and the (anti)terrorist consumer”, Antipode 38(4): 778-801. You may view the full publication here.
Much Ado about Something: North Korea’s Missile Tests
Much Ado about Something: North Korea’s Missile Tests Wade Huntley July 5, 2006 Do North Korea’s missile tests really represent an escalation of its threat to global security? The answer is both yes and no. The capabilities of the missiles now are easily over-hyped. But North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities continue to grow, and current […]
War Affected Children & Youth in Northern Uganda: Toward a Brighter Future an Assessment Report
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 […]
Legal Opinion on the December 18, 2005: Arrangement for the Transfer of Detainees between the Canadian Forces and the Ministry of Defence of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Legal Opinion on the December 18, 2005: “Arrangement for the Transfer of Detainees between the Canadian Forces and the Ministry of Defence of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” Michael Byers, Professor, UBC April 10, 2006 MICHAEL BYERS The Canada-Afghanistan “Arrangement” On December 18, 2005, Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier signed an “Arrangement for […]
Canada, Meet Global China
Canada, Meet Global China Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC March 31, 2006 Atlases in any Canadian home invariably display a vast expanse of blue separating the land masses of Asia and North America. The two continents comfortably occupy different pages, usually in separate sections. We need a new kind of map. Globalization has increased Canada’s […]