/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10354/all en /newsroom/channels/news/uns-new-agenda-protection-international-peace-institute-357329 <p>May 13, 2024 | The United Nations (UN) recently released its Agenda for Protection, a comprehensive document aiming to enhance protection as a collective responsibility across various UN components. It addresses previous shortcomings highlighted by inquiries into UN responses in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. However, it faces challenges due to geopolitical dynamics undermining multilateral action and UN entities’ limited roles in ongoing conflicts. </p> Tue, 14 May 2024 17:56:44 +0000 admin 310498 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/jennifer-welsh-inequalitys-threat-liberal-democracy-cbc-listen-357330 <p>May 9, 2024 | On a podcast episode of Ideas with Nahlah Ayed, Professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/jennifer-welsh">Jennifer Welsh</a> delves into answering on how inequality is undermining liberal democracy. Following the end of Cold War, the quest for peace, equality, and democracy didn't conclude; instead, it evolved into a multifaceted challenge. Greg Kelly, executive producer of IDEAS, discusses Jennifer Welsh's 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Return of History," on the 60th anniversary of Massey College.</p> Tue, 14 May 2024 18:34:19 +0000 admin 310497 at /newsroom /newsroom/jennifer-welsh Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:53:57 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 198440 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cbc-loss-consensus-why-last-decade-saw-growing-polarization-303805 <p>"The word that captures the last decade is polarization, and you can see it in a domestic context in different liberal democracies ... [and] on a global level", said<strong> Jennifer Welsh</strong>, a professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University. She is also the author of several books, including The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st century.</p> Mon, 06 Jan 2020 14:33:41 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 194872 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/jonathan-sievers-and-jennifer-welsh-named-canada-150-research-chairs-286260 <p><span>Cosmologist Jonathan Sievers and international-relations scholar Jennifer Welsh will become Canada 150 Research Chairs at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University. The appointments were among the <a href="http://canada150.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/index-eng.aspx">24 Chairs announced t</a>oday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.  </span></p> Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:18:53 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 35629 at /newsroom