Roland Paris has expertise in the fields of international security, international governance and foreign policy.  He is the founding director of the university's Centre for International Policy Studies and an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.  Read more

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COMMENTARY: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF OUR AFGHAN MISSION (Globe & Mail, 1 Feb. 2010)

In the dust of Kandahar, Canada is at the forefront of NATO's counterinsurgency strategy. Read more

EDITED VOLUME: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LIBERAL PEACEBUILDING (2009)

This new book, co-edited by Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver Richmond, explores and critiques the "liberal" premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market based economic reforms, and a range of other institutions associated with modern states as a driving force for building peace. If a liberal peace is viable, is it also legitimate? Or is it, as some claim, a new form of hegemonic control? What is the relationship between statebuilding, liberal peacebuilding, and the more emancipatory agendas of peacebuilding? What or whose vision of the state is being promoted?  Read more

COMMENTARY: PROPOSE A G8 CENTRE ON FRAGILE STATES (Globe & Mail, 10 August 2009)

Establishing it in Canada would be a shrewd blend of public-spirited investment and self-interested capacity-building at home.  Read more

COMMENTARY: NATO AT A CROSSROADS (Globe & Mail, 13 July 2009)

After two decades of promiscuously embracing new tasks and partners, the alliance is suffering from overstretch and mounting internal tensions.  Read more

EDITED VOLUME: DILEMMAS OF POSTWAR STATEBUILDING (2009)

Routledge has published The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, co-edited by Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk.  The book's chapters, written by leading international analysts, represent the latest thinking in scholarly research on the difficulties of establishing functioning, legitimate government institutions in countries after internal conflicts. Case studies include including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Croatia, Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa.  Read more

LAUNCH OF THE SUSTAINABLE PEACEBUILDING NETWORK (SPN)

The Sustainable Peacebuilding Network (SPN) is an international research initiative involving more than 20 scholars examining the requirements for sustainable peace in countries emerging from civil wars. The project is co-sponsored by the University of Denver's Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace and the University of Ottawa's Centre for International Policy Studies.  It is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Read more

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY STUDIES (CIPS)

The University of Ottawa has launched a new multidisciplinary Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), which will conduct policy-oriented academic research in the areas of international security and global governance, and serve as a focal point for discussion of international policy issues involving both scholars and policy practitioners.  For more information, please visit the Centre's website: www.cips.uottawa.ca.