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Newsletter - October 2016

October 7, 2016
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Source: MIGS

Announcements

 

Kyle Matthews and Marie Lamensch will participate in the UNESCO-Quebec conference on “Radicalization of Youth: Preventing, Acting and Living Together”, which will take place in Québec City from October 30th - November 1st. MIGS’s team will also organize a workshop on engaging youth in countering violent extremism online. MIGS’s research fellows Marc-Andre Argentino and Nicolai Pogadl will also be part of the delegation.

MIGS will launch the first Global Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Forum. The two-day program will take place at Concordia University in Montreal from 16-17 November. It will feature expert speakers on questions of radicalization, ideology, religion, law and privacy, mass atrocities, the role of traditional and new media, propaganda and more. For more information, to see the list of experts and to register, please visit the event website.

MIGS was awarded a grant from the U.S. Embassy to Canada to create the North American Working Group to Counter Violent Extremism Online. The first meeting will be held on 18th November in Montreal.

MIGS and the Institut d'études internationales de Montréal (IEIM) at UQAM, in collaboration with Polis180, a think tank on foreign and European politics, are organizing a Webinar/workshop on the topic of diplomacy in the digital age. The Webinar will be part of the activities organized ahead of the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL), which will take place in early November 2016 in Montreal and be held simultaneously in Berlin and Montreal.

On 25 October, Thomson Reuters Foundation and ITVS will team up to produce an online debate on the Responsibility to Protect. The foundation is experts, professors and students from around the world to participate in the debate by taking part in the live discussion on OVEE – an online screening platform. MIGS will be screening this excellent debate (registration mandatory).

Advocacy

September 15

MIGS co-signed a letter with 46 other NGOs to U.S. President Obama in advance of the Refugee Summit asking him to widen the agenda to include the main driver of global displacement, violent conlfict .

September 18

MIGS co-signed a joint NGO letter on the cessation of hostilities in Syria with among others CARE Canada, Oxfam and Worldvision.

Past Events

September 20

Kyle Matthews participated in the International Peace Day panel “The human right to belong: Unique perspectives on achieving the elusive goal of peaceat the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation.

September 25-26

MIGS hosted a conference titled "Assaulting Cultural Heritage: ISIS's Fight to Destroy Diversity in Iraq and Syria", which focussed on the threat to cultural pluralism posed by violent extremist movements such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Ambassador Robert Fowler gave the keynote address “Sleeping with Al-Qaeda”. Part of Ambassador Fowler’s speech is summarized on Concordia student newspaper theconcordian.com. The full program is available on this page.

In the Media

September 12

The CBC interviewed Kyle Matthews to discuss the Syria Peace Plan.

September 13

Kyle Matthews was quoted in the article “Civilians need protection” by Geoffrey P. Johnston in the Sun Times.

September 16

MIGS’ non-resident fellow Michael Petrou wrote an article titled “The Tehran Test” in OpenCanada, on the link between Canadian foreign policy and the imprisonment of Concordia professor Homa Hoodfar in Iran.

September 19

MIGS’ Distinguished Senior Fellow Roméo Dallaire was quoted in an article in The Globe and Mail about Canada re-engaging in UN peacekeeping operations.

September 20

Roméo Dallaire was quoted in the iPolitics article “Dallaire urges debate on peacekeeping”.

Frank Chalk was a signatory to the Toronto Star open-letter titled “Canada must show leadership in helping Yazidi refugees now”.

September 24

Kyle Matthews was interviewed for the radio show Viewpoints on the relevance of the United Nations (interview starts at 1:18:50 mark).

September 27

MIGS non-resident fellow Diego Osorio discussed how Colombians are trying to understand peace on Global Voices.

MIGS’s non-resident fellow Michael Petrou published an article on Opencanada.org regarding the American relationship to NATO in view of the upcoming U.S. elections.

September 28

Kyle Matthews was quoted in an article on the liberation of Concordia Professor Homa Hoodfar from Iran in The Suburban.

September 29

Kyle Matthews was interviewed about MIGS’s upcoming “Global Countering Violent Extremism Forum” on Radio Canada International.

October 2016

Kyle Matthews and Frank Chalk were signatories of the article Avoiding catastrophes: seeking synergies among the public health, environmental protection, and human security sectors” which was published in the medical journal  The Lancet Global Health.

October 4

MIGS fellow Diego Osorio was quoted in a La Presse article on the Colombian peace process.

 




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