Ms. Norine MacDonald, Q.C.
President and lead field researcher
Senlis Council Afghanistan
Kandahar City
will be addressing the Vancouver Institute on October 27, 2007 at 8:15 p.m., Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, University of British Columbia.
Ms. MacDonald is the President and Founder of The Senlis Council; an international Security and Development Think Tank founded in 2002 with offices in Paris, London, Rio, Ottawa, Kabul, and Kandahar. Ms. MacDonald regularly appears on CNN, BBC and CBC to provide analysis on the connections between foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics. The Senlis Council makes policy recommendations to a broad audience of senior policy-makers and experts in NATO countries. As President of The Gabriel Foundation, Ms. MacDonald sits on the board of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation (NEF), a platform which brings together twelve of the leading philanthropic organisations in Europe. Within NEF, Ms. MacDonald is the Managing Director of the NEF Mercator Fund, which launches and supports initiatives on Europe’s role in global social issues.
(These references were compiled by Ted Powell in the hope that they will prove interesting to some readers. The web being what it is, some of them will have vanished by the time you go to look them up, and there is—of course—no guarantee of their accuracy.)
The Senlis Council
The Mercator Fund
Losing Hearts and Minds: The Empty Shell of Human Security
in Southern Afghanistan
Afghanistan's opium war
(The Ottawa Citizen, 22 Oct 2006)
Canada isn't winning hearts and minds
(The Vancouver Sun, 30 Oct 2006)
