The CDA Institute held its 12th annual graduate student symposium at Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario on 30-31 October 2009.
Winners:
The Symposium awarded cash prizes to the top three presenters. First place received $3000, second place $2000, and third place $1000. The top five presenters also received an autographed copy of General (Ret’d) Rick Hillier’s book, A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War. If a serving Canadian Forces member placed in the top three, they would only receive the book, and the cash prize would go to the next ranking presenter.
First place went to Adam Coombs of Carleton University for his “Red Scare: Canada’s Rush to Integrate North American Air Defence Systems” He received a copy of the book and $3,000.
Second place went to Alex Souchen of the University of Ottawa “On Razor’s Edge: Individuals and the Experience of War, D-Day 6 June 1944.” He received the book and $2,000.
Third Place went to Adam Kochanski of the University of Western Ontario, for his presentation “Liberal Peacebuilding and Its Limitations: Reassessing the Record of Post-Conflict Transitional Administrations.” He received a copy of the book and $1,000.
Fourth place went to Anita Singh of Dalhousie University. She received the book.
Fifth place went to Wilfrid Greaves of the University of Toronto. He received the book.
Keynote Speakers / Discours programme
Elissa Golberg, former Representative of Canada in Kandahar / ancienne représentante du Canada à Kandahar
Lieutenant-General Marc Lessard, Commander, Canadian Expeditionary Force Command /Commandant, Commandement de la Force expéditionnaire du Canada
Panel I: Emerging Security Concerns / Les enjeux émergents en matière de sécurité
“Expanding the Ontology of Security Studies: An Innovative Framework for Water Security”
Cindy Strömer, University of Calgary
“The Responsibility to Protect: Implications for Implementation”
Tammy Lambert, University of Calgary
“Towards total defence: An examination of international responses to non-traditional threats and its implications for Canada”
George Heng, University of Calgary
“Political Victory on the Domestic Front: How Democracies Fight Total and Limited Wars”
Andrew Vine, Royal Military College of Canada / Collège Militaire Royal du Canada
Panel II: Terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan / Le terrorisme, la contre-insurrection et l’Afghanistan
“Counterinsurgency in Theory and Practice”
Rebecca Jensen, University of Manitoba
“Competing Imperatives: The Challenge of Determining Military Necessity in Counterinsurgency Operations”
Wilfrid Greaves, University of Toronto
“Influencing State Sponsorship of Terrorism: It Can Be Done”
Michael D. Cohen, University of British Columbia
Panel III: Western Militaries in Contemporary Perspective / Les militaires Occidentaux dans la perspective contemporaine
“The Influence of Public Opinion on the Performance of the Contemporary German Armed Forces”
2Lt Marius Schwarz, Federal Armed Forces of Germany, University of Calgary
“The Noise Before Defeat: Current Failure of Western Militaries to Formulate Strategy”
LCol Ian Hope, Queen’s University / Royal Military College of Canada / Collège Militaire Royal du Canada
“Embracing the Face of Battle: NATO’s New Strategic Concept and the Return of Strategic Direction”
Eric Jardine, Carleton University
Panel IV: COIN A “Population-Centred” Approach / La contre-insurrection: une approche “centrée sur la population”
“Translation Consequence: The Crusade for Information in Wartime Communications”
Alim Sutherland, Royal Roads University
“Cultural/Ethnographic Intelligence Support to Counterinsurgency Operations”
Alexei JD Gavriel, Boston University
“A Theoretical Model for State-Building and Population-Centric Counterinsurgency”
Todd J.R. MacDonald, Carleton University
Panel V: Conflict and Political Economy / Le conflit et l’économie politique
“War and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Economic Thought”
2Lt Stephen Brosha, University of Oxford
“Conflict Management and Resolution Through Economic Development: The Case Study Of Microfinance Institutions In Palestine”
Charles Bélanger, University of Toronto
“Economic Espionage Against Allies”
Mark Agnew, Carleton University
Panel VI: Failing States: Causes and Prescriptions / Les états ratés : les causes et les prescriptions
“Towards a Historical Approach to the Problem of State Failure: Theory, Method, and Policy”
Alex McDougall, University of Calgary
“Liberal Peacebuilding and Its Limitations: Reassessing the Record of Post-Conflict Transitional Administrations”
Adam Kochanski, University ofWestern Ontario
Panel VII: International Security Issues / Les enjeux de la sécurité internationale
“Iran, the United States, and the Nuclear Standoff”
Paul Knight, Carleton University
“A defining security concern of the post -Cold War World? The Purported Nexus Between so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction and Non-state actors”
Brandon Deuville, Carleton University
“Pakistan’s Stability/Instability Complex – The Politics and Reverberations of the 2007 November Emergency”
Anita Singh, Dalhousie University
Panel VIII: Canada’s Security and Defence: Historical Perspectives / La sécurité et la défense du Canada: Les perspectives historiques
“On Razor’s Edge: Individuals and the Experience of War, D-Day 6 June 1944”
Alex Souchen, University of Ottawa
“A Brash and Dangerous Ally: Canadian Views of GeneralMacArthur during the Korean War”
Tyler Turek, University of Ottawa
“Red Scare: Canada’s Rush to Integrate North American Air Defence Systems”
Adam Coombs, Carleton University
Panel IX: The Canadian Forces in the 21st Century / Les forces canadiennes dans la 21e siècle
“Educating the Canadian Forces: The Introduction of the Operational Level of War”
Howard G. Coombs, Queen’s University
“Military Contractors and the Canadian Forces: Defining the Limits of Privatisation”
Meghan Spilka O’Keefe, University of Ottawa
“Decentralization in the Forces:Mission Command in the Canadian Military”
Neil Irvine,Queen’s University
Panel X: Geopolitics: Europe and Russia / Les géopolitiques: L’Europe et la Russie
“Rolling Back Missile Defences in Europe – Far-Sighted Policy or Acquiescence in the Face of Russian Intransigence?”
Mils Farmus, Royal Military College of Canada / Collège Militaire Royal du Canada
“A Whole of Problem Approach to the Chechen Conflict”
Renée Gendron, supervised by Dr C.M.L. Hille, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Panel XI: Extremist Propaganda: Dissemination and Indoctrination / La propagande extrémiste: la diffusion et l’endoctrinement
“Bin Ladin’s Dream: A Re-Examination of the Threat of Al-Qaeda Based on the Words of Osama bin Laden”
Robert B.Marks, Royal Military College of Canada / Collège Militaire Royal du Canada
“The Road to Martyrdom: Unmasking Afghanistan’s Suicide Bombers”
Andrew Fraser, Dalhousie University
“Media Interference: The Effects of Framing the ‘Toronto 18’ Terrorists Arrests”
Natasha Hope Morano, Wilfrid Laurier University