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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.
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