2010 News Archive
December 30, 2010
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- December 8, 2010: Our working paper series, the Simons Papers in Security and Development, has published its 8th and 9th papers. John Harriss writes on decentralisation and delivery of social services in India, and Sebastian Merz writes on militias and security governance in Nigeria.
- December 2, 2010: Congratulations to the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) on their release of the Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and The Shrinking Costs of War. To read the press release and to access the text, please click here.
- November 15, 2010: "Interrogating Development and Development Indicators", a free public lecture by Dr. Padmini Swaminathan. For more information, please click here.
- November 2, 2010: Congratulations to Jeff Checkel, who has just been elected to the Board of Editors of International Organization, which is recognized as one of the leading international relations journals in the world.
- November 2, 2010: Congratulations to undergraduate students, Mitch Kelsey and Murad Javed on their victory at the 2010 CIC Inter-University Debate between SFU and UBC. The two topics of debate were: (1) human rights should be a major consideration indeveloping new economic agreements/relationships with othercountries; (2) the development of worldwide digital networks challenges the ability of governments to make balanced policy decisions.
- October 25, 2010: A very warm congratulations to our departmental manager, Jan Smith on her completion of the M.A. in Leadership at Royal Roads University!
- October 18 & 19, 2010: The School for International Studies and The Liu Institute at UBC present free public lectures by Professor Elisabeth Wood (Yale) on wartime sexual violence. For more information, please click here.
- September 13, 2010: Prof. Gwyn Prins (LSE) speaks on "Why Climate Policy Crashed in 2009 and What to Do about It." For more information, click here. The complete Hartwell Paper can be found here.
- August 30, 2010: SIS Director John Harriss and Paul Bowles (UNBC) have published an edited volume in Palgrave MacMillan's series on International Political Economy, Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses.
- August 12, 2010: Simons Series announces first two speakers for the coming academic year. Click here for more information!
- July 29, 2010: Michael Howard's new book, From Dashes to Dragons: The Ikat-Patterned Textiles of Southeast Asia will be published in August by White Lotus Press.
- July 16, 2010: A warm congratulations to IS student, Joel Cardinal for winning First Prize in the 2010 National Aboriginal Essay Competition, sponsored by DFAIT and Cameco Corporation. Click here to read his essay.
- June 14, 2010: Nicole Jackson has been elected to the Board of Directors of the prestigious Atlantic Council of Canada - an independent NGO which promotes transatlantic cultural, economic and security relationships between Canada, the US and Europe
- May 20, 2010: The School for International Studies, Oxfam Canada and Vancouver Peoples' Summit present a dialogue with Robert Fox, Executive Director of Oxfam Canada. For more information, please click here.
- May, 2010: Lara Nettelfield’s new book, Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in a Postwar State, will be published in early May by Cambridge University Press.
- May 10, 2010: The School for International Studies and the Justice Education Society present a free public presentation by Guatemalan Human Rights Advocate, Helen Mack Chang. For more information, please click here.
- April 19, 2010: Alvaro Pereira has won the ASPHS/Oliveira Marques Award for the best article published in 2009 in the field of Portuguese and Spanish history. His prize winning article is “The Opportunity of a Disaster: The Economic Impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake,” The Journal of Economic History, (June 2009).
- April 16, 2010: Read Nicole J. Jackson's new article, "The role of external factors in advancing non-liberal democratic forms of political rule; a case study of Russia's influence on Central Asian regimes" Contemporary Politics, vol.16, no1, March 2010.
- April 1, 2010: Morten Jerven has been awarded a 3-year grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for his project on African long-term development and the quality of growth statistics.
- March 9, 2010: Jeff Checkel's 2009 book, European Identity (co-edited with Peter Katzenstein) was one of the 9 recommended by Foreign Affairs in its "What to Read" feature.
- April 10, 2010: Zainah Anwar, founder of Sisters in Islam and Musawah will address the tensions within Muslim societies when conservative political Islam collides with women’s demands for equality and justice. For more information, please click here.
- March 15, 2010: The School and the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies present a free public lecture by Ronald Poulton on the realities of UN peacekeeping and human rights enforcement. For more information, please click here.
- March 4, 2010: Morten Jerven participated in the launch of a new Africa International Affairs Programme at the London School of Economics. See his paper in a special issue of LSE Ideas.
- February 17, 2010: The Middle East Studies Association welcomes Simon Fraser University as an institutional member, making SFU one of only three Canadian universities with such an affiliation.
- January 2010: Early release of The Shrinking Costs of War, Part II of the Human Security Report 2009
