Briefs
Norman Webster, President of the R. Howard
Webster Foundation, of Montreal, was elected Chairman
of the NSI Board of Directors at the May 13 Annual
General Meeting. Mr Webster succeeds Gabrielle Lachance,
whose term on the NSI Board has expired.
Jacques Bertrand, (Senior Researcher), has recently
left the Institute to pursue a career in academia.
Jacques will be joining the University of Toronto's
department of Political Science, specializing in Asian
politics and conflict studies. During the past two
years, Bertrand led the Institute's research on conflict
prevention.
Melanie Gruer is on a leave of absence from
the Institute. Alice d'Anjou, who has an extensive
background in communications and media relations,
including four years with the national office of the
Canadian Red Cross, has joined the Institute as Media
and Public Relations Officer until Melanie's return
in February 1999.
Congratulations to CIDA on their 30th
Anniversary. The Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA) celebrates 30 years of shaping Canadian
policy on international development and foreign aid.
Over the years, NSI has had a close working relationship
with CIDA. Coinciding with CIDA's anniversary this
summer, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (WLUP), in
collaboration with the Institute, will publish a history
of CIDA by David R. Morrison, of Trent University.
Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian
Development Assistance is the first definitive
historical study of Canadian aid policymaking, starting
from 1950.
A 1997 study commissioned by the International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), the International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and
NSI, identified the need for -- and sketched out the
basic elements of -- a knowledge network to address
climate change and development issues. In May 1998,
a "scoping" meeting, brought together representatives
from the South, Europe, and North America, and launched
NSI President Roy Culpeper and Researcher Kerry Max's
current project: the creation of an Interactive
Network on Climate Change and Development. The
network will focus on issues of market-based trading
within the Clean Development Mechanism, which was
established by the Kyoto Protocol as the core mechanism
for developing countries to participate in addressing
climate change.
Jean Daudelin will join the Institute in November
1998 as a senior researcher, specializing in conflict
prevention. For the past four years, he has been Senior
Project Officer at the Canadian Foundation for the
Americas, where he coordinated the organization's
research activities. Daudelin has also lectured extensively
on international conflict and development, and has
acted as a consultant on Latin America and development
issues for such organizations as CIDA, the Human Rights
Research and Education Centre (HRREC), and the International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
(ICHRDD). Daudelin holds a PhD in Political Science
(Université Laval, Québec), and has
conducted post doctoral research at the Instituto
de Estudo da Religião (Rio de Janeiro), and
the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
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