Caroline Dunton
Senior Researcher
She/Her
United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
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/