Welcome to the GPS e-Conference!

The CIC has embarked on a major foreign policy mapping initiative this year, the Global Positioning Strategy (GPS) Project, which intends to generate fresh perspectives and ideas about Canada's priorities in international affairs. 
Thank you to CIC members, friends, and expert contributors who participated in the GPS e-Conference series. We invite you to view the introductory video of GPS Project co-director and former Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail,
Ed Greenspon, and to browse the expert op-eds, video contributions and discussions forums for each of the three
e-Conference sessions.

Session 1: Energy and the Environment: Cooperating for Growth and Sustainability? (February 11, 2010)

Featured Moderator: Jason Thistlethwaite. Expert Contributors: Joseph Doucet (Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Alberta), John Drexhage (Director of IISD's Climate Change and Energy Program), Wenran Jiang (Associate Professor and Mactaggart Research Chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta)

Session 2: Security and Reconstruction: Lessons from Afghanistan (March 11, 2010)

Featured Moderator: Taylor Owen (Doctoral Candidate and Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford). Expert Contributors: Mark Sedra (Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation), Major-General David Fraser (Project Director and Commander-designate for the Canadian Forces' new JHQ), Sarah Jane Meharg (Adjunct Professor, Royal Military College of Canada and Senior Research Associate, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre), Ben Rowswell (Representative of Canada in Kandahar)

Session 3: Recasting Development for the 21st Century (April 15, 2010)

Featured Moderator: Anna Dion, (Program Officer with the Global Health Research Initiative, IDRC). Expert Contributors: Ian Smillie, (Author, Development Consultant; Chair, Diamond Development Initiative International; Member, McLeod Group), Patrick Johnston, (Senior Fellow, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation), Stephen Brown, (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa)