About

Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé is Full Professor at Bishop’s University and Non-Resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute, New York. She is the Deputy Director of the Centre FrancoPaix.  In 2018–2019, she was the Canada Fulbright Research Chair for Peace and War Studies.  In 2021, she was awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. She is an associate faculty member of the Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) and of the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM). Her research focuses on peacekeeping-intelligence, peace operations and security issues related to intra-state wars.  Her most recent publications include “Competing for Trust: Challenges in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence“.  Author of the first UN guidelines on Gender and Peacekeeping-intelligence, she is also co-author of the first United Nations Field Handbook on Joint Mission Analysis Centres (United Nations, 2018), she recently conducted fieldwork at the MINUSCA (Central African Republic), MINUSMA (Mali), MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo), UNOCI (Côte d’Ivoire) and UNMISS (South Sudan). She is co-hosting the podcast “Conseils de sécurité” a co-production of the CDSN-RCDS and RAS-NSA and “Au FrancParler” as part of the Centre FrancoPaix of la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand.

Research Interests

• Peackeeping
• Intelligence
• Dis/Mis/Malinformation

Recent Publications

• 2024. « Le renseignement onusien »   in Paul Charon and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène-Vilmer, eds. Les Monde du Renseignement, Presses universitaires de France (PUF).
• 2024.  “In Search for Trust: Challenges in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence, ed. T. Juneau and J. Massie. Intelligence Cooperation in a Multilateral World: Non-American Perspectives.  University of Toronto Press.
• 2023. “Integrating Gender in Canadian Armed Forces Operations” Canadian Defense Academy.
• 2022. “Gender and Peace and Peacekeeping-Intelligence Guidelines”. United Nations.
• 2021. “ Competing for Trust: Challenges in United Nations Peacekeeping-Intelligence”, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, DOI: 10.1080/08850607.2020.1798153

Online

• Twitter/X:  @SaMyMarBru
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-myriam-martin-br%C3%BBl%C3%A9-47543736/

Margaret BK Shepherd, better known as Maggie, currently serves as the Dean of the Williams School of Business at Bishop’s University. Professor Shepherd is a graduate of Laval University, RMC (Kingston), and went on to complete a post-graduate program on Negotiation through Harvard. Her doctoral work is a study from a Canadian context on the impact of social media on small and medium businesses. Understanding influence and complex change are integral to her varied roles as a professor, a consultant, and researcher. As a scholar-practitioner, Maggie focuses her research on practical outcomes and improving real-world application. With a career in the federal government and higher education spanning more than 27 years, Maggie has held various senior academic administrative roles at The Royal Military College of Canada, including Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Chair of the MBA program, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Vice-Principal. Maggie currently serves on the editorial Board of the Canadian Military Journal and the International Perspectives on Military Education journal through the Marine Corps Press. Maggie's commitment to community extends to mentorship with the Loran Scholar's Foundation since 2015 and volunteering in the not-for-profit sector as a member of the Kingston Health Sciences Hospital Board of Directors.

Research Interests

• Strategy and Leadership
• Influence and Negotiation
• Human Security and Women Peace and Security

Recent Publications

Online

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbks1/

About

Dr. Caroline Dunton is a Fellow at the CIDP and a Senior Researcher in Multilateralism and Global Governance at UNU-CPR.From 2024-2025, she was the Skelton-Clark Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Canada, where she taught courses on Canadian foreign policy, Canadian politics, and the United Nations. She has worked for Global Affairs Canada as a Senior Policy Analyst in Foreign Policy Planning, where she was responsible for the development of Canada's feminist foreign policy. She was also the Cadieux-Léger Fellow in Foreign Policy Research in 2018-2019.

Dr. Dunton has served as a Research Associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she received her PhD in 2022. She holds an MA from both the University of Ottawa and the George Washington University. She has published widely on United Nations peacekeeping, the history and practice of the United Nations Security Council, gender and international development, and Canadian foreign policy.

Research Interests

• Canadian Foreign Policy
• Multilateralism
• United Nations

Recent Publications

• “What can a small state do? The Importance of Political Investment in the United Nations and International Law. The Martello Papers 49, (February 2025): 5-20.
• “Canada and the United Nations at Political Turning Point”. International Journal 79, no. 4 (December 2024): 629-641.
• Caroline Dunton, Marion Laurence, and Gino Vlavonou. “Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices and the Future of UN Peace Operations”. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 17, no. 3 (May 2023): 215-234.
• Liam Midzain-Gobin, Caroline Dunton, and Robert Tay-Burroughs. “Provincial-Indigenous Relationships as Diplomatic Encounters?” IRPP Insight 47. Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation (July 2023): 1-24.
• « Le Pacte de l’avenir et la possibilité de la réforme du Conseil de Sécurité » Bulletin FrancoPaix (Centre FrancoPaix) December 2, 2024.

Online

• website: http://www.carolinedunton.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-dunton-7708a571/