[KWPeace-groups] Upcoming events: Film "Demain", Film "Zero Days", Talk on US nuclear weapons & Marshall Islands and Canada Arms Exports...

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello KW Peace Community!

I wanted to let you know about these upcoming events related to peace & social justice. Please see below.

If you don't know about World Beyond War, please check them out here: http://worldbeyondwar.org/ They might be organizing a big peace conference in Toronto in September 2018. Stay tuned!

In solidarity,

Tamara Lorincz
PhD student, Balsillie School of International Affairs

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On Tuesday, January 23 at 7:30pm at the Princess Original Theatre there is a special screening of the documentary "Demain" about sustainable solutions to deal with the environmental and climate crises. The film is co-hosted with Divest Waterloo.
More details are here: http://www.princesscinemas.com/movie/tomorrow-demain

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On Wednesday, January 24 at 7pm, CIGI is screening the documentary "Zero Days":
CIGI 67 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON
https://www.cigionline.org/events/cigi-cinema-series-zero-days  About the film: A black ops cyber-attack launched by the U.S. and Israel on an Iranian nuclear facility unleashed malware with unforeseen consequences. The Stuxnet virus infiltrated its pre-determined target only to spread its infection outward, ultimately exposing systemic vulnerabilities that threatened the very safety of the planet. Delve deep into the burgeoning world of digital warfare in this documentary thriller from Academy Award(r) winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. *You may recall that filmmaker Alex Gibney won an Academy Award for this documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side" about the US torture program in Iraq and Afghanistan - the Discovery Channel bought the rights to the film and then suppressed it refusing to screen it. I expect Gibney's new documentary "Zero Days" to be important and provocative.). You can read The Guardian review of the film here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/05/zero-days-review-alex-gibney-cyberwar-documentary
More info:

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"Legacies of US Cold War Policies: The Quest for Justice in the Marshall Islands"
Martha Smith-Norris | University of Saskatchewan
Wednesday January 24th, 7:00 pm, 232 King St. N. Waterloo
In the race against the Soviet Union for nuclear supremacy during the Cold War, the United States tested a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshall Islands while conducting studies on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout. Based on extensive archival research, Smith-Norris will discuss the health and environmental consequences of these American policies and the Marshall Islanders' ongoing quest for justice in Washington and the United Nations.
Martha Smith-Norris is a Cold War historian with an interest in US foreign policies in the Asia Pacific region. An Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, she is the author of Domination and Resistance: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War (University of Hawaii Press, 2016). Her current research project is a study of the relationship between Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, the Nation State, and the Environment.
Laurier Centre for Military Strategic & Disarmament Studies
More info: http://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/

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A Nation of Feminist Arms Dealers? Canada and Military Exports
March 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker: Srdjan Vucetic
Balsillie School of International Affairs * Room 1-43
67 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON
The Canada-Saudi light-armoured vehicles deal is likely to be remembered as the Trudeau government's first scandal. Situating this deal in a historical-comparative context and using the best available quantitative arms trade data, this analysis advances two main claims. First, Canada's Liberal governments are just as likely as Conservative governments to encourage exports of Canadian military goods, including goods going to human rights-abusing customers. Second, Canada's overall arms exporting behaviour is similar to the behaviour of its "international do-gooder" peers, Sweden and the Netherlands. This leads to a more philosophical discussion: what does arms trade mean for feminist foreign policy?
About the speaker: Srdjan Vucetic is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA-ÉSAPI), University of Ottawa; Responsable des études de maîtrise de l'École supérieure d'affaires publiques et internationales; Co-Coordonnateur pour le Réseau en théorie internationale du Centre d'études en politiques internationales (CÉPI-CIPS). Research interests in international politics, include foreign and defence policy, identity, arms trade, and the Yugoslav region (where his name is spelled Srđan Vučetić).
More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/nation-feminist-arms-dealers-canada-military-exports/