Canada And Peacekeeping

Author : Colin McCullough
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774832519

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Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past by Colin McCullough Pdf

Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a symbol of national identity – in Quebec and the rest of the country. Delving into four decades’ worth of documentaries, newspaper coverage, textbooks, political rhetoric, and more, Colin McCullough outlines continuity and change in the production and reception of messages about peacekeeping. Engaging in debates about Canada’s international standing, as well as its broader national character, this book is welcome addition to the history of Canada’s changing national identity.

Author : Joseph T. Jockel
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032101860

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Canada And International Peacekeeping by Joseph T. Jockel Pdf

Author : Nicholas Gammer,Teleglobe Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0773522050

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From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking by Nicholas Gammer,Teleglobe Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité Pdf

This examination of Canada's response to the disintegration of the Federal State of Yugoslavia considers how Canadian foreign policy was formed, and the role of the prime minister in this decision-making. Gammer (political science, Okanagan University College) argues that Mulroney used his office to redefine international standards on humanitarian intervention. Gammer also outlines the risks in doing this, and considers the impact of Mulroney's stance on the behavior of Canadian troops. He considers the role of political leadership in foreign affairs, and its relationship to legitimacy. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858953

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Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 by Kevin A. Spooner Pdf

In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.

Author : Michael K. Carroll
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858861

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Pearson's Peacekeepers by Michael K. Carroll Pdf

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. While the operation was a tremendous achievement, the UNEF also encountered formidable challenges and problems. This nuanced account of Canada's participation in the UNEF challenges perceived notions of Canadian identity and history and will help Canadians to accurately evaluate international peacekeeping efforts today.

Author : John Conrad
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554889822

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Scarce Heard Amid the Guns by John Conrad Pdf

Scarce Heard Amid the Guns tears the curtain of myth away, providing a rare, visceral inner perspective of the various Canadian peacekeeping missions. In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic Canadian contribution to the U.N. Emergency Force in 1956, through the blur of the frenetic 1990s down to the anemic level of contemporary Canadian participation, it is difficult to make sense of the wide circumference of this significant legacy. Until now. Scarce Heard Amid the Guns provides an incisive perspective on the various Canadian missions: their omnipresent doubt and un-telegraphed terrors. This insiders guided tour of our military at war in peace introduces us to some of the men and women who carried the day ordinary Canadians who did extraordinary things and continue to bear the scars of forgotten fields in their bones.

Author : Karsten Jung
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Canada
ISBN : 3631592558

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Of Peace and Power by Karsten Jung Pdf

More than 50 years after Canada played an instrumental role in its inception, peacekeeping has once again returned to the center of the national foreign policy debate. Having participated in every peacekeeping operation set up during the Cold War and lived through the fundamental changes the activity has undergone in the 1990s, Ottawa is currently struggling to define a viable approach to peacekeeping for the 21st century. As a timely contribution to this effort, the study reveals the overt and subtle ways in which Canada's commitment to peacekeeping has contributed to the promotion of vital national interests in the past and might continue to do so in the future.

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0888640374

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Peacekeeping in Vietnam by Ramesh Thakur Pdf

This book explores the ramifications of the peacekeeping mission by three countries in light of their various foreign policies, set in the wider scene of international politics. The Commission did more worthwhile work than is commonly appreciated.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCBK:C097168538

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Canada and Missions for Peace by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia and Somalia

Author : Colin McCullough,Robert Teigrob
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773599994

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Canada and the United Nations by Colin McCullough,Robert Teigrob Pdf

A nation of peacekeepers or soldiers? Honest broker, loyal ally, or chore boy for empire? Attempts to define Canada’s past, present, and proper international role have often led to contradiction and incendiary debate. Canada and the United Nations seeks to move beyond simplistic characterizations by allowing evidence, rather than ideology, to drive the inquiry. The result is a pragmatic and forthright assessment of the best practices in Canada’s UN participation. Sparked by the Harper government’s realignment of Canadian internationalism, Canada and the United Nations reappraises the mythic and often self-congratulatory assumptions that there is a distinctively Canadian way of interacting with the world, and that this approach has profited both the nation and the globe. While politicians and diplomats are given their due, this collection goes beyond many traditional analyses by including the UN-related attitudes and activities of ordinary Canadians. Contributors find that while Canadians have exhibited a broad range of responses to the UN, fundamental beliefs about the nation’s relationship with the world are shared widely among citizens of various identities and eras. While Canadians may hold inflated views of their country’s international contributions, their notions of Canada’s appropriate role in global governance correlate strongly with what experts in the field consider the most productive approaches to the Canada-UN relationship. In an era when some of the globe’s most profound challenges – climate change, refugees, terrorism, economic uncertainty – are not constrained by borders, Canada and the United Nations provides a timely primer on Canada’s diplomatic strengths.

Author : Albert Legault,Manon Tessier,George Tombs,Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Publisher : Clementsport, N.-É. : Canadian Peacekeeping Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Peacekeeping forces
ISBN : 1896551238

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Canada Et Le Maintien de la Paix by Albert Legault,Manon Tessier,George Tombs,Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre Pdf

Author : York University (Toronto, Ont.). Research Programme in Strategic Studies
Publisher : Downsview, Ont. : The Programme
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN : PSU:000010641927

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Canada and Peacekeeping by York University (Toronto, Ont.). Research Programme in Strategic Studies Pdf

Author : Matthew Bin
Publisher : Bookland PressInc
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0978379322

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On Guard for Thee by Matthew Bin Pdf

On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers’ stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian mission, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They represent the whole of the operational experience, from the training they undergo before the mission begins, to the moment they land on foreign soil, to the return to Canada and beyond.The result is a raw, honest look at peacekeeping, from the legendary missions in Rwanda and Bosnia, to the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the ongoing fight in Afghanistan. The full Canadian peacekeeping experience is here, showing, from the ground level, how Canada’s international reputation was built.

Author : Harold R. Johnson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771048739

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Peace and Good Order by Harold R. Johnson Pdf

An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. "The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counsel and as a Crown prosecutor; that I didn't have the courage to stand up in the court room and shout 'Enough is enough.' This book is my act of taking responsibility for what I did, for my actions and inactions." --Harold R. Johnson In early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts inspired former Crown prosecutor and bestselling author Harold R. Johnson to make the case against Canada for its failure to fulfill its duty under Treaty to effectively deliver justice to Indigenous people, worsening the situation and ensuring long-term damage to Indigenous communities. In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now.

Author : J. L. Granatstein,Douglas Lavender,Boris Spremo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1550134361

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Shadows of War, Faces of Peace by J. L. Granatstein,Douglas Lavender,Boris Spremo Pdf