bout de papier, Volume 10, Issue No. 2, 1993
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bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 4, 1989
Walking to Remember
IT WAS 2006, AND MY FRIEND and I had been travelling around eastern and southern Africa for a few months. Blessed by the naiveté of youth and moments of excellent luck, we had managed to make it to the end of our…
Bearing Witness
BY APRIL 2015, 16 MONTHS after the violent implosion of Juba, South Sudan’s civil war was plumbing new depths. Much of the war thus far had ranged the largely Dinka forces of the governmental army — the SPLA — against Nuer militias…
The Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Canadian diplomats may have written the first report suggesting that the Cold War was coming to a close and that the West had won it. They did not know it at the time, but they certainly knew that the event they were…
Protecting Civilians in South Sudan
I’d woken at about three in the morning, to thunder and lightning. Odd, I’d thought, as the storm passed, and the rhythmic whirr of the ceiling fan took over again. The rainy season had ended a few weeks back. I drifted back…
Canada’s Fast Fading Footprint
When the Canadian government tabled its main estimates for the year 2013-14, it revealed that it intended to reduce the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade by $270 million or slightly more than 10 per cent. If this…
Pearson’s Prize: Canada and the Suez Crisis
Over the last few years, it has become almost de rigueur for world weary policymakers and hip international analysts to dismiss Pearsonian peacekeeping as quaintly old-fashioned. In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, peacekeeping has been replaced by peace building and peace enforcement…
Canadian Peacekeepers in Indochina 1954–1973: Recollections
In 1631, a year before he died in Milan, Fr. Christoforo Borri, S.J., one of the first missionaries to Cochin-China, wrote in his “Relacione della nueve missione … al Regno della Cocincina” that the first strangers to arrive in Vietnam were shipwrecked…
