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Online: COVID-19: Perspectives on its global security challenges
Covid-19: Perspectives on its Global Security Challenges
The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Toronto branch of the Canadian International Council will be hosting a roundtable discussion on the long-term implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for international security on April 28 at 11 AM. Ambassador Salome Meyer of Switzerland will serve as moderator for our panel, which will feature the following three distinguished experts, who each bring a unique professional and scholarly perspective to bear on this vital question:
Mark Humphries holds the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience and is Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada.
Rosemary McCarney is the Pearson-Sabia Scholar in International Relations at Trinity College, University of Toronto. An award-winning humanitarian and business leader, she served as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva with responsibilities for the World Health Organization from 2015-2019.
Bruno Charbonneau is Professor of International Relations at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean and Director of the Centre FrancoPaix en résolution des conflits et missions de paix at the Université du Québec à Montréal. A prolific scholar, his work on global security issues has been published in Review of International Studies, International Political Sociology, International Peacekeeping, Les Temps modernes, Afrique contemporaine, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal Intervention and Statebuilding, Conflict, Security & Development, Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Salome Meyer has served as the Ambassador of Switzerland to Canada since February 2019. Her previous postings include Beijing, London, and Seoul and, most recently, as diplomatic advisor to the Federal President in Bern.