Chapter 12 Further Resources

Web Links

• About Canadian Involvement in Afghanistan (www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/10/f-afghanistan.html). CBC site containing timeline and information on Canada’s role in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

• United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Office (www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko). Information on United Nations peacekeeping, both historical and contemporary. Useful for debate in this section on Canada’s peacekeeping.

• BBC Information on Rwandan Genocide (news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm). Historical overview of the genocide in Rwanda.

• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (www.sipri.org). One of the world’s most respected peace research centres.

• Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (http://www.international.gc.ca/). Formerly CIDA, this is the home page for Canadian agency responsible for development policy.

• International Security Assistance Force (www.nato.int/ISAF). NATO’s home page for information on the ISAF mission in Afghanistan.

• Correlates of War (www.correlatesofwar.org). Excellent research site on war and conflict.

Podcasts

• “Rwanda: The Warped Solidarity of Hate”, BBC Radio, June 4, 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005mtm
  
  This podcast episode explores how propaganda fueled the genocide in Rwanda, priming thousands of ordinary people into believing that murder was virtuous civic duty.

• “Does Humanitarian Intervention Do More Harm Than Good?”, Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates, August 5, 2016. https://player.fm/series/intelligence-squared-us-debates-2300998/does-humanitarian-intervention-do-more-harm-than-good
  
  This podcast is a debate between the opponents and proponents of Humanitarian Intervention. Th proponents argue that military intervention in the conflict areas will bring stability while opponents argue that Humanitarian Intervention is a tool of Western imperialism and an assault on state sovereignty.

• “Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11”, War on the Rocks, September 12, 2019. https://warontherocks.com/2019/09/counter-terrorism-since-9-11/
  
  This podcast episodes explores the nature of counter-terrorism strategies 18 years after the events of 9/11. The experts in this episode analyze how effective these counter-terrorism strategies have been in preventing terrorist attacks.

Further Readings

• Alexander, Chris (2011). The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace. Toronto: HarperCollins.

• Baylis, John, James J. Wirtz, & Colin S. Gray (2019). Strategy in the Contemporary World. 6th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Collins, Alan (2010). Contemporary Security Studies (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Nacos, Brigitte L. (2012). Terrorism and Counterterrorism (4th ed.). Toronto: Prentice Hall.

• Strachan, Hew, & Andreas Herberg-Rothe (2007). Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press.