Annual General
Meeting and Dinner
"What Next: Preparing the
UN for the 21st
Century"
John Ruggie,
Assistant Secretary-General, United
Nations
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Rethinking Development:
Canadian Aid in the Nineties and
Beyond
Chair:
Oskar Sigvaldason,
President, Acres
International
Panelists:
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Mario Renaud
Director General, Strategic
Planning and Policy
Asia Branch, Canadian
International Development
Association (CIDA)
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Cranford Pratt
Professor Emeritus of
Political Science, University
of Toronto;
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Seana Massey
Executive Director, African
Medical & Research
Foundation (AMREF)
U.S. Leadership in the
Post-Cold War World: An Insider's
View
Derek Shearer,
Prof., Occidental College, L.A.
and
U.S. Ambassador to Finland
(1994-1997)
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March
1998
Canada
& Latin America: Where To
Now?
With the return of Team Canada's
trade mission to Latin America and
the prospect of hemispheric
integration, where do we go now?
What are Canada's interests, policy
options and responsibilities in the
region.
Panelists:
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Ambassador P. Boehm,
Canadian Ambassador to
OAS
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Dr. Edgar Dosman, York
University
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David Winfield, Sr.
VP, Nortel
March
1998
A
Roundtable on Asia-Pacific
Security
Amb. S.R. Nathan,
Singapore's
Ambassador-At-Large
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Central Asia: Economic,
Political and Geostrategic
Prospects
The Republics of Central Asia
consist of Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan. They are all members of
the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS), but until 1991 were
part of the Soviet Union. Resource
rich, ethnically diverse and
strategically located, they are
emerging on the world stage after
decades of isolation. What are
Canada's interests?
Chair:
Robert Johnson,
Director, Centre for Russian and
Eastern European Studies,
University of Toronto
Panelists:
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Robert Kaplan
Kazakhstan Hon. Consul
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Charles MacMillan
Schulich School of
Business
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Gulnara
Medeubekova
Coordinator, Women's Network
in Central Asia for World
Association of Public Radio
Broadcasters
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Marina Stevens
Counsel,
Baker-MacKenzie
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Civil-Military Relations:
Perspectives From the Former Soviet
Union
These experts are in Canada as
part of the Department of National
Defence's Democratic Civil-Military
Relations Program. Don't miss this
chance to get a unique perspective
on the problems and successes of
democratic transition in Eastern
Europe from some of the region's
senior defence
officials.
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Maj. Stasys Sulskys
(Lithuania)
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Col. V. Sedov (Russian
Federation)
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LCol. V. Volkov
(Russian Federation)
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Maj. G. Anghel,
(Romania)
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Col. V. Mandragelija
(Ukraine)
February
1998
Finland, the EU and the
Northern Dimension
This lecture will outline the
background and philosophy of the
concept of "The Northern
Dimension," Finland's newest
initiative in relation to its role
in the European Union.
Amb. V.K.
Sampovaara, Finland's Amb.
to Canada
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Southeast Asia: Implications of
the Financial
Crisis
Panelists:
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Harry Baumann
Partner
Secor Consulting
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David Harries
Sr. Consultant, VGI, Vancouver
and Jakarta
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Tim O'Neill
EVP & Chief Economist,
Bank of Montreal
Canada and East Africa: At the
Crossroads
High Commissioner B.
Dussault, High
Commissioner to Kenya;
High Commissioner W.
Hammond, High Commissioner
to Tanzania
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January
1998
The Continuing Search for Peace
in the Middle East
Prof. John Sigler,
Carleton University
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Asia
After the Meltdown
Peter Sullivan,
Vice-President, Asian Development
Bank
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December
1997
CIIA Holiday
Party
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Russia's
Prospects at the
Millennium
in cooperation with Gowling,
Strathy & Henderson
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Chair:
Rt. Hon. Ramon
Hnatyshyn
Sr. Partner, Gowling, Strathy and
Henderson, Ottawa
Panelists:
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Arthur
Katona
Dir. European Assessments
Intelligence Advisory
Secretariat, Privy Council
Office
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Don
McCutchan
International Policy
Advisor
Gowling, Strathy and
Henderson, Toronto
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Sergei
Plekhanov
Professor of Political
Science, York University
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Dr.
Ludmilla Selezneva
Prof. of History, Rostov
University, Russian
Federation
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November
1997
Demographics: Its Meaning To
Canadians in the Global
Marketplace
in cooperation with the
C.D. Howe Institute
M. Catley-Carlson,
President, World Population
Council
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October
1997
What
Can Canada Bring to
Russia?
in cooperation with the
International Relations Society of
the University of Toronto
Amb. Anne Leahy,
Canadian Ambassador to
Russia
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Ukraine and Eastern Europe:
Transitions and
Opportunities
in cooperation with the Centre for
International Studies at the
University of Toronto
Anders Aslund,
Senior Fellow, Carnegie
Institute
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International
Trade Update
in cooperation with the Alliance
of Manufacturers and Exporters
Canada and the Bank of Montreal
David Crane,
Economics Editor, The Toronto
Star;
Lawrence Herman,
International Trade Lawyer,
Cassels, Brock and
Blackwell
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