Scientific Board
Ben Rowswell has been President and Research Director of the Canadian International Council since November 2018.Prior to the CIC, Ben served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017. This capped a 25 year career as a professional diplomat including assignments in Canada’s embassies to Egypt, to the United States, and in Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN. He served Canada’s first diplomatic envoy to Baghdad, Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2005, as Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan and as head of the NATO Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar between 2008 and 2010.As a practitioner…
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Chiara Ruffa is Academy fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and associate professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defense University. Chiara's research focuses on civil-military relations and state militaries in nonconventional operations (such as peacekeeping and search and rescue). Her work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, Armed Forces and Society, Security and Defence Analysis, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Comparative European Politics, and several edited volumes. Her first book Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in…
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Stephen Saideman holds the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is also the Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network, which has led to his co-hosting Battle Rhythm, the CDSN’s podcast. His main area of research is International Security, defined broadly. For much of his career, he focused on the international relations of intervention: why do groups and countries get involved in conflicts elsewhere in the world, how do they engage in such efforts, and to what effect. Recently, he has spent most of his time comparing the civil-military relations…
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Miguel Salazar is a PhD candidate in political science and international relations at the Centre d'études internationales (CERI) of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Sciences Po. His thesis, entitled "Governing in common: the scientific-environmental regime of the Antarctic Treaty System in the light of Chilean Antarctic policy (1991-2021)", is supervised by Hélène Combes. He is also a research associate at the Millennium Institute - Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE) in Chile, where he collaborates with a wide range of natural and social science professionals involved in the study of biodiversity in these regions. In addition to his…
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Natalie is Founder and Executive Director of Verve Research, an independent research collective focussed on the relationship between militaries and societies in Southeast Asia. She is also a Non-resident Fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program and a PhD scholar at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University, focussing on Indonesian military history. In 2018, the Royal United Services Institute awarded her the Leo Mahony bursary to support her doctoral research. Natalie has been a guest lecturer and presenter at the Australian National University, Australian National Security College, Australian War College, Indonesian National Resilience Institute (LEMHANNAS),…
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Christopher Sands is Director of the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute and an internationally renowned specialist on Canada and US-Canadian relations. He is also a Senior Research Professor of Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He regularly gives testimony to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, is a widely quoted source on Canadian and has published extensively over a career of more than 25 years in Washington think tanks. His work has been commissioned by Washington think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Center for the Study…
Emerging Scholar
Bénédicte Santoire holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Montreal and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science (International relations) at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Claire Turenne-Sjolander. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in the post-Soviet space, more specifically in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia. Her research is financed by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
Emerging Scholar
Rachel M. Sarfati is a master's student in international studies at the École supérieure d'études internationales of Université Laval. She is currently writing her essay under the supervision of Fannie Lafontaine. She previously obtained a law degree from the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier, France. Her academic interests are currently focused on international justice, in particular on the criminal repression of the most serious international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes). She has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and for the Lexsitus website, at the request of the International Academy of…
Researcher
Jean-François Savard is an associate professor with École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP, Université du Québec). Prior to joining ENAP in 2006, Jean-François Savard worked as a senior policy analyst at the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch at Health Canada. His research interests include public policy, Indigenous politics, and federalism. He has published in several academic journals, including Politiques & management public, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. He is the co-author of Analyse et pilotage des politiques publiques : France, Suisse, Canada (Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2015) and co-edited several books, including L'État et…
Emerging Scholars
Mariana is a Master’s student at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Her master’s project seeks to clarify the concept of strategic communication and identify the principal ways in which technological developments (social media and artificial intelligence) may be shaping its evolution in practice, focusing on its uses in conflict. Mariana’s research interests are rooted in the evolving landscape of international security. These include security studies, including critical theories; the role of international organizations, such as NATO, in shaping global security dynamics; and emerging frontiers of competition. Beyond traditional security paradigms, she is…
