Scholar | Capacity Building
Stéphanie Bélanger is professor in the Department of French Language, Literature and Culture at the Royal Military College of Canada where her research focuses on war testimony, soldier identity and moral injuries. She specializes in military ethics and just war theories. Dr. Bélanger is the associate scientific director of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health (University of Toronto Press funded in 2015). She is programme chair for the North American Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics as well as the co-editor…
Collaborator
Hager Ben Jaffel holds a PhD in International Relations from King's College London. Her research focuses on a sociological analysis of intelligence and focuses more specifically on the practices and professionals that make up contemporary intelligence. After having analyzed the cooperative relations in the field of counter-terrorism intelligence between Great Britain and Europe, her current research focuses on the study of security practices through the prism of the relationship between security and politics as well as the development of critical approaches to intelligence.
Scholar | Capacity Building
Adib Bencherif is an Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Politics of the University of Sherbrooke. He teaches courses in applied political science and courses on Africa and the Middle East. He is also a research associate at the Sahel Research Group of the Center for African Studies of the University of Florida, as well as at the UNESCO-PREV Chair and at the Centre Francopaix of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand at UQAM. He obtained his PhD from the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Sahel Research Group at the University…
Emerging Scholar
Jessy Benoit is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Québec in Montréal under the supervision of Jacques Lévesque. His research interests focus on Russian, Turkish and Iranian foreign policy as well as on the geopolitics of Eurasia.
Emerging Scholar
Chloé Berland is a Master's candidate in Political Science – Public and International Affairs at the Université de Montréal. Born in São Paulo (Brazil) and having lived there for most of her childhood, Chloé moved to Montreal to pursue her university studies. She is interested in security studies and international power dynamics, but also in issues of nationalism, ethnicity and gender. As part of her Master's degree, Chloé completed an internship with the Research Network on Peace Operations (ROP), and was also an intern at the International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR), where she was able to develop skills in…
Emerging Scholar
Junru is a doctoral student at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Dr. Marie-Eve Desrosiers. His research focuses on the identities, perceptions and practices of constituents within the humanitarian aid, peacekeeping and development sectors in crisis environments. As part of his research, he interviews different conflict interveners to understand their everyday experiences working in crisis environments. Through his research, he seeks to understand the relationship between institutional norms and everyday practices in conflict intervention. After living in Russia, Afghanistan and most of Central Asia, Junru moved to Canada for his Bachelor’s degree in International…
Advisory Board
Louise Blais was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 2017 to 2021, responsible for the 2030 Agenda and the campaign for the Security Council. She also served on the UNICEF Executive Board where she was elected as Vice-Chair in 2019. Appointed co-facilitator by the President of the UN General Assembly, she led the negotiations for the resolution of the 31st Special Session on COVID-19. She began her career as an Art Theft Analyst at Interpol. She then served as Program Manager for the National Archives Development Program from 1992-1996 before joining the Department of Foreign…
Publications manager (NSA)
Laurent Borzillo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at UQAM and publications manager for the NSA. He holds a doctorate/Ph.D in political science between the Universities of Montpellier and Montreal (2020). His research interests focus on security and military cooperation in Europe, transatlantic relations, contemporary military interventions as well as the defence policies of France, Germany and Canada. His postdoctoral work deals with the evolution of the transatlantic security architecture over the last five years, using France, Canada and Germany as case studies. He is also co-editor for le Rubicon.
Scholar | International Organisations
Jean-Christophe Boucher is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and at the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His current work focuses on applied machine learning to understand how the digital world shapes our society. He is currently holding grants from the Department of National Defence (DND) to study information operations; the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to understand civil-military relations in Canada; and holds grants from Alberta Innovates, the Vaccine Confidence Fund and Merck to study vaccine hesitancy on social media to develop better communications strategies and tools to increase vaccine…
Scholar | Capacity Building
Yolande Bouka is (Ph.D. American University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She has worked with and offered support to USAID, the UK Department for International Development, the United Nations, the African Union, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the United States Institute of Peace. Her research and teaching focus on gender, African politics and security, political violence, and field research ethics in conflict-affected societies. Her current research is a multi-sited historical and political analysis of female combatants in Southern Africa. Her previous research which is now a book manuscript In…
