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How to Be Human Today: Crossing Through Fire in an Age of Disconnection
Speaking to those whose work asks them to cross fire again and again — diplomats, humanitarian practitioners, officials of the institutions built to hold a world together, and the students who will follow them — Gagic offers not a strategy for fixing the world, but a discipline for remaining whole while trying. Her central claim is that the repair of the world and the repair of the human heart are not two projects but one: you cannot build a connected world out of disconnected people. This is a talk about courage, presence, and the deliberate art of staying fully alive to our own lives in the time we are given.

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Film Screening: “TRACES”
We invite you to a special evening of film and conversation addressing the ongoing use of conflict-related sexual violence and torture in Russia’s war against Ukraine — and the women who have transformed their lived experience into a fight for justice. TRACES tells the stories of six Ukrainian women who survived conflict-related sexual violence, captivity and torture during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine — and who refuse to remain silent.

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Blog - Images in Science: Using AI Responsibly and Creatively
Images shape how we understand science even before we might have read a single sentence. They tell us what research looks like, where it happens, and, perhaps most importantly, who does it. On October 6th, 2026, I had the opportunity to explore these questions with participants at the University of Ottawa during a workshop titled Reflecting on Images in Science – Using AI Responsibly and Creatively, hosted by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS).

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Policy Report: Terrorist Threats to Canada Originating in Central Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan
CIPS Research Associate, Dr. Faramarz Tamanna, has written a new policy report. He argues that Canada should move from a reactive and listing-centred counter-terrorism posture to a network-centred, interests-centred and resilience-centred one, making the Canadian Threat-to-National Interest Transmission Matrix, updated every 90 days by an interdepartmental mechanism, the basis for decisions on listing, sanctions, intelligence resources and prevention programming. He then lists seven pillars.

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Images shape how we understand science even before we might have read a single sentence. They tell us what research looks like, where it happens, and, perhaps most importantly, who does it. On October 6th, 2026, I had the opportunity to explore these questions with participants at the University of Ottawa during a workshop titled

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How to Be Human Today: Crossing Through Fire in an Age of Disconnection

Film Screening: “TRACES”

Blog - Images in Science: Using AI Responsibly and Creatively

Policy Report: Terrorist Threats to Canada Originating in Central Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Japan and Canada Must Lead a New Coalition of Middle Powers

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There is No Silver Bullet Train Solution: Lessons From Abroad for High-Speed Rail in Canada

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