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Dr. Colin Magee is the Senior Evaluator, and Concepts and Doctrine Developer at the Canadian Armed Forces’ Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security (DCOE-PS). Dr. Magee retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2020, with close to four decades of command, staff, concept development, and teaching experience in Canadian and international, civilian and Professional Military Educational institutions, as well as practical experience in planning, commanding and conducting operations.

As the Senior Evaluator at the DCOE-PS, Dr. Magee leads the implementation of the Vancouver Principles within the CAF including authoring the Joint Doctrine Note on Canadian Armed Forces Responses to Preventing the Unlawful Recruitment and Use of Children in Conflict, the accompanying aide memoire, and a planner’s precis to integrate the prevention of the recruitment and use of child soldiers into the CAF planning process. He is currently leading a team to develop concepts notes for WPS for both NATO’s Partnership for Peace consortium on PME and the CAF, as well as CAF roles in Human Security.

In parallel to his professional experience, he holds a PhD from the University of Guelph researching leadership in the whole of government context.  Academically, he has developed and instructed undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, operational planning and defence policy at the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of Guelph, Queen’s University and for the Australian National University.  He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Guelph teaching on the Masters in Leadership program, a Military Studies Fellow at the Australian National University a sessional instructor for RMCC teaching leadership and ethics, and a sessional instructor at Queen’s University teaching Defence Studies. 

Research Interest

• Human Security

• Leadership in Complexity

• Strategic and Operational Planning 

Recent Publications

• Led the development of the Canadian Armed Forces Child Protection Handbook – final review ongoing
• Co-Authored the Canadian Defence Framework to Implement the Women Peace and Security Agenda
• Led the development of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes Concept Note on Military Roles in Implementing the Women Peace and Security Agenda

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Chris is a member of the national board of the Canadian International Council, the editor (articles) of CIC’s online foreign policy magazine Open Canada, president of the CIC Victoria branch and a sessional professor with the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military College of Canada. He also holds a PhD in history from Queen’s University with a focus on civil-military relations in the developing world. Chris also enjoyed a 36-year career in the Canadian Army. He is a graduate of Canada’s Advanced Military Studies Course and was granted an equivalency for the year-long National Security Program in 2009. He also commanded 4th Air Defence Regiment, followed by various senior positions in the Department of National Defence including Director Future Security Analysis and Military Liaison Officer to the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. From July 2009 until July 2010, Chris deployed to Canada’s Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan as the Deputy Military Attaché. On his return to Canada, he commenced Turkish language training after which he was sent to Canada’s Embassy in Ankara as the Canadian Defence Attaché with cross accreditation to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan from July 2011 until July 2014. Chris retired from the military in September 2014.

Research Interests

• Turkish and Middle Eastern security issues
• Civil-Mililtary relations in developing countries
• Canadian foreign and defence policy

Recent Publications

• March 2022 - University of Toronto Press book chapter: Middle Power in the Middle East - Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region
• August 2024 - Open Canada article: Canada's Legacy in Afghanistan

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Dr. Michael A. Hennessy is a Professor of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, and a veteran with service in both the artillery and infantry. His published works include Strategy In Vietnam: the Marines and Revolutionary War in I Corps 1965-1972 (Praeger 1997); and the co-edited The Operational Art: Developments in the Theory of War, (Praeger 1996). More recent works include the co-authored, War Without Fronts. A Primer on Counterinsurgency (CDA Press, 2012), and he was a primary author and project lead for Cybersecurity-A Generic Reference Curriculum (NATO ACT/PfPc 2016).

He is on the editorial boards of the Canadian Army Journal, and was founding editor of the Canadian Military Journal and remains a member of its editorial board.

Past appointments include serving as co-chair of RMC’s War Studies graduate programme, Dean of the Canadian Forces Military College & Division of Continuing Studies, Associate Vice Principal of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, and Vice Chair of Saint Lawrence College Board of Governors. He also served the academic project lead responsible for creating the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. He is also a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of Canadian History, and The Journal of Defence Studies, (London).

Through 2022 he held a visiting fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and as a Taiwan Visiting Scholar, at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Current research is focused on hybrid threats and hybrid warfare and naval developments in the Indo-Pacific region.

Research Interests

• Hybrid threats and hybrid warfare

• Naval developments in the Indo-Pacific region.

Recent Publications

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Houchang Hassan-Yari is a Professor and Head of Political Science Department at the Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has been Visiting-Researcher at the Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø in Norway (2015), Research Visitor at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm, Sweden, (2014); Visiting-Professor-Researcher at the Lyon University Institute for Political Science (IÉP), Lyon, and Sciences Po, Grenoble, France (2007 & 2018), and Professor at the Shahid Beheshti (National) University, Tehran, Iran (1993-94).  

He is an External Member at the Observatory on the Middle East and North Africa at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic at the University of Québec in Montréal; a Senior Analyst at Wikistrat Next Generation Strategy, and Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy (since 1997). 

Professor Hassan-Yari has published numerous books, book chapters and articles in academic journals. Among his publications, we can cite The Middle East Peace Process, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001 (Book); Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947 : Half A Century of Diplomatic Involvement, Montréal, Paris, Harmattan, 1997 (Book); Regionalism and International Security, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2009 (Book). (co-editor Abdelkérim Ousman.

Professor Hassan-Yari analyses military and strategic issues and political developments internationality and in the Middle East for national and international media in Persia, French and English, with more than 15,000 interviews with RFI; Deutche Welle; BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Al Jazeera, Iran International; Manoto; CBC/Radio-Canada; Globe & Mail1; Le Devoir; La Presse; etc. 

Research Interests

Recent Publications

• “Political Empowerment of Women and the Mediating Role of Political Awareness: The Case of Oman” (with Victoria Dauletova & Zainab Hussain ), Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 23: Issue 1, Article 11. February 2022  https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol23/iss1/11;
• “Gandhian Politics and Interstate Conflict Resolution in the Middle East,” (with Ayesha Burney), in Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee, ed., Gandhi and the World, Macmillan Publishers, 2022, pp. 92-111; “Public Diplomacy of Oman” (with Cuneyt Yenigun & Abdullah Al Maani), Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 2021;
• “New Public Diplomacy In The New Millennium” (with Cuneyt Yenigun & Abdullah Al Maani), Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government, 2021, Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 6272-6282; New Public Diplomacy in the New Millennium, May 2021. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 27(2):6272-6282. 
• “Iran and Iraq ‐ GCC Rapprochement”, Middle East Policyi, Volume25, Issue 4, Winter 2018, January 2019, pp. 56-64. "The non-theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)," published in Tabachnick, David Edward, Koivukoski, Toivo, Koivukoski and Teixeira, Herminio, eds. Challenging Theocracy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2017.
• “Iran, Afghanistan and the Benefits of a Regional Approach” in Sten Rynning, ed., South Asia and Great Powers International Relations and Regional Security, I.B. Tauris, 2017. “Understanding Israel's Nuclear Ambiguity” in Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani and Ariabarzan Mohammadighalehtak, eds., Nuclear Politics in Asia, Taylor & Francis Ltd/Routledge, 2017.

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Dr. J. Andrew Grant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. He is the recipient of an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation for work on conflict and cooperation in natural resource sectors. Dr. Grant has been a Visiting Scholar/Researcher at Northwestern University, USA, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. During his doctoral studies, he served as an intern at the Campaign for Good Governance in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 

Dr. Grant is author/co-author of more than 50 refereed papers, including articles that have appeared in scholarly journals such as International Affairs (Ranked #1 among 94 IR journals in 2020; Impact Factor 7.910), International Studies Review (IF 4.342), International Studies Perspectives (IF 2.667), International Journal (IF 2.867), Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (IF 0.800), Contemporary Politics (IF 1.699), Land Use Policy (IF 6.189), Journal of Cleaner Production (IF 11.072), Extractive Industries and Society (IF 3.808), and Resources Policy (IF 8.222). He is editor of Darfur: Reflections on the Crisis and the Responses (CIR / CIDP 2009) and co-editor of The New Regionalism in Africa (with F. Söderbaum, Ashgate 2003), The Research Companion to Regionalisms (with T.M. Shaw and S. Cornelissen, Ashgate 2012), New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (with W.R.N. Compaoré and M.I. Mitchell, Palgrave 2015), Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors (with N. Andrews, University of Toronto Press 2020), and Natural-Resource Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? (with N. Andrews and J. Salah Ovadia, University of Toronto Press, 2022). His publications on conflict-prone minerals, non-state armed groups and regional security, post-conflict reconstruction in fragile states, and governance issues relating to natural resources have been funded by research agencies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Research Foundation of South Africa, and the British Academy-Association of Commonwealth Universities. He conducts field research on a regular basis in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Uganda, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. 

Dr. Grant is also a Research Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University. In 2017, he served as the International Studies Association (ISA) Program Chair for some 6,000 participants attending the 58th annual conference, which is the most important scholarly gathering in his field. A former Chair of the ISA Committee on Virtual Engagement, he was recently elected to serve as an ISA Executive Committee Member-at-Large as well as President of ISA-Canada. 

Research Interests

• African Security, Regional Security, Human Security
• Global Governance, Regionalism and Regionalization
• Conflict and cooperation in natural resource sectors

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