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DAVID PRATT

David Pratt is an independent consultant. Most recently, he spent five months in Baghdad, Iraq as a Senior Parliamentary Expert with the USAID sponsored Iraq Legislative Strengthening Program – currently the largest legislative capacity building project in the world. From 2004-2008, he served as Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) where his focus was on humanitarian issues. He also led the CRC’s ‘Auxiliary to Government’ project which promoted a new relationship between the CRC and governments at all levels. Mr. Pratt served as an elected representative at the municipal, regional and federal levels for 16 years. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1997 and was Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2001 to 2003. He served as Canada’s 36th Minister of National Defence in 2003-04.

Keywords:
Conflict prevention, small arms and light weapons control, international humanitarian law, war-affected children, security sector reform.
 

February 2012

We Don't Need the
UN's Permission

  by Jack Granatstein

Now Available:
Winter 2011 Edition of
"The Dispatch"

 

 

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