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The CDAI is pleased to report that the 7th Annual CDAI-CDFAI Graduate
Student Symposium, held in collaboration with the Centre for
International Relations and Defence Management Program at Queen’s
University, the Institute for Research and Public Policy (IRPP), and
the War Studies Programme at the Royal Military College was the most
successful symposium to date.
The two-day symposium held at the Royal Military College, October
29-30, 2004 featured two days of presentations on security and defence
issues. This year’s symposium featured 35 presenters (more than 55
abstracts submitted) from nine Security and Defence Studies Forum
(SDF) centres represented: Dalhousie University, Université Laval,
Université de Montréal, McGill University, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Queen’s University, University of Manitoba, University of
Calgary (Centre for Military of Strategic Studies (CMSS)), and the
Royal Military College. There were more than 100 people in attendance.
  The
symposium also featured 2 keynote speakers: Major General Lewis
MacKenzie (Ret’d) and Dr. David Bercuson who spoke of the future
direction of Canadian defence policy.
We believe it provided a forum for PhD and MA students to share their
thoughts on broad security and defence issues with colleagues,
academia, and policy makers from government, while having the
opportunity to listen to experts in the field. It was through the
willingness of professionals, such as yourself, to volunteer their
time that enabled this year’s symposium to be the most successful one
to date.
 Special
thanks must be given to our overall winner, Major Brent Beardsley,
Royal Military College, for his paper on Lessons Learned or not
Learned from the Rwandan Genocide of 1994; Andrea Charron,
Royal Military College, for her paper on the Northwest Passage: Is
Canada's Security Really Floating Away?; Sumon Dantiki, McGill
University, for his paper on Solving the Collective Action Problem:
Policy Options for Future Humanitarian Interventions; Jorim
Disengomoka, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University
of Calgary, for his paper on Terror Financing: A Case Study of the
DRC. An honourable mention went to Benoît Gagnon, Université de
Québec à Montréal (UQAM) for his paper on the Revolution in Terrorist
Affairs.
The CDAI offered defence and security institutions the opportunity to
display their publications. We had publications from the Canadian Army
Journal, Canadian Military Journal, Centre for Internaitonal Relations
and Defence Management Studies at Queen’s University, IRPP, CDAI and
CDFAI.
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