Name
Alistair EDGAR (アリスティア エドガー)
Current affiliation
・Associate Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
・President of the New Delhi, India-based International Jurist Organization (IJO)
・Chair of the Canadian Landmine Foundation (CLMF) since 2017
・Former National Board member of the United Nations Association in Canada (UNAC)
・Co-editor, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Brill/Nijhoff)
・Series co-editor, The ACUNS Series on the UN System (Edward Elgar Publishers)
Activities in the Association
・Participated in several seminars organized by GPAJ
Professional history
・Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) (2003-2008 and 2010-2018)
・Co-director and Advisory Board member of the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS) (2012-2016)
・John M. Olin Doctoral Fellow in Economics and National Security at the Olin Institute, Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1993
Academic training
・BA Honours in History from Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College), 1983
・MA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, 1985
・PhD in Political Science from Queen’s University, Canada, 1993
・Certificate in Russian Studies at Moscow State University, 1996
Publications
2022
・”Human Security and the United Nations”, in Gerd Oberleitner (ed.), Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2022)
・”Stephen Harper’s Canada and the United Nations: A Tale Full of Sound and Fury?”, in Peter McKenna (ed.), Harper’s World: The Politicization of Canadian Foreign Policy, 2006-2015 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022)
2021
・Shamiran Mako and Alistair D. Edgar, “Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003-2017), Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 15 No. 4, 2021
・“The Rule of Law, Peacebuilding and Agenda 2030: Lessons from the Western Balkans”, in Slawomir Redo and Helmut Kury (eds.) Crime Prevention and Justice in 2030: The UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (New York: Springer, 2021)
・“The United Nations at 75 and ‘Building Back Better’ in Global Governance: Can We Get There From Here?” in Modesto Seara Vazquez (ed.), Pandemic: The Catastrophic Crisis (Huatulco: Universidad del Mar Press, 2021). Published in Spanish, as Pandemia: Las Crisis Catastrophica (2021)
2020
・“The Changing Role of the United Nations in Managing Armed Conflict”, in Fen Osler Hampson, Alpaslan Ozerdem and Jonathan Kent (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development (London: Routledge, 2020)
