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Dances with Dolphins the Weird Intersection of Dolphin and Human Culture Investing in the Middle East PAGE 3 $6.50 Vol. 24, No. 2 March 2016 Andrew Westoll Dances with Dolphins The weird intersection of dolphin and human culture ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Steve Paikin Dalton the durable Mark Starowicz Historical auditions Charlotte Gray Robertson Davies’s diaries PLUS: NON-FICTION Michael Booth on the madness of King Ford + Andrew Heintzman on climate optimism + Don LePan on factory farms + Emmett Macfarlane on constitutional cultures + Stephen Reid on a mining town caper FICTION Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 Brett Joseph Grubisic on Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl + Rashi Khilnani Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. on Farzana Doctor’s All Inclusive PO Box 8, Station K Toronto, ON M4P 2G1 POETRY A.J. Stainsby + Richard Greene + E. Alex Pierce + Brian Henderson CIGI PRESS ADVANCING POLICY IDEAS AND DEBATE COMING SPRING 2016 MINDING THE GAP The Internet ecosystem is held together by a surprisingly THE PREVAILING NARRATIVE ON AFRICA is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it intangible glue — trust. To meet its full potential, users does suffer from a multitude of conflicts — from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist Watching Look Who’s attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases need to trust that the Internet works reliably and efficiently of successful conflict management and resolution. What accounts for the successes and when providing them with the information they are seeking, failures, and what can we learn from Africa’s experience? while also being secure, private and safe. When trust in ’ the Internet wanes, the network’s stock of “digital social Look Whos Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change takes on these questions, capital” falls, and users begin to alter their online bringing together more than 20 experts to examine the source of conflicts in Africa and behaviour. These often subtle changes in behaviour tend to assess African management capacity in the face of these conflicts. Through this book, they : collectively be highly maladaptive, hindering the economic, explore the viability of “African solutions for African problems,” the gaps in resources and TIME OF CHANGE A AFRICAN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN developmental and innovative potential of the globe-spanning capacity, the role of international players in African-led peacekeeping operations, and the Watching tensions that erupt when there are overlapping mandates among subregional, regional and network of networks. international institutions charged with bringing peace to troubled places. Look Who’s Watching: Why the World Is Losing Faith in the Why The World Is Losing Faith The book focuses on the role of mediation and peacekeeping in managing violence and Internet confirms in vivid detail that the trust placed by _in_the Internet political crises, looking at new ideas and institutions emerging in the African space, as users in the Internet is increasingly misplaced. Edward well as at the structural and institutional obstacles to developing a truly robust conflict Snowden’s revelations that the United States National management capability in Africa. In the end, the stakes are too high in terms of human Security Agency and other government agencies are spying on lives and regional stability to allow these obstacles to paralyze peace processes. This Internet users, the proliferation of cybercrime, the growing team of authors, approaching the issues from a wide range of perspectives, recognizes the enormity of the stakes and offer concrete recommendations on how to end conflict and lay African Conflict Management commodification of user data and regulatory changes — which the groundwork for building peace in Africa. threaten to fragment the system — are all rapidly eroding the in a Time of Change confidence users have in the Internet ecosystem. ABOUT THE EDITORS Based on a combination of illustrative anecdotal evidence and Look Who’s Watching PAMELA AALL is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), analysis of new data, clearly demonstrates in the Global Security & Politics Program, leading the African Regional Conflict Management why trust matters, how it is being eroded and how, with project. She is also a senior adviser for conflict prevention and management at the United care and deliberate policy action, the essential glue of the States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she was founding provost of USIP’s Academy for Internet can be restored. International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She is on the advisory council of the European Institute of Peace, and serves on the boards of Women In International Security and FEN OSLER HAMPSON is a distinguished fellow and the director the International Peace and Security Institute. of the Global Security & Politics Program at CIGI. He is also Hampson //Jardine CHESTER A. CROCKER is a distinguished fellow at CIGI. He is the James R. Schlesinger co-director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, a Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign joint project with CIGI and Chatham House. He is chancellor’s Service, and serves on the board of its Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. A former assistant professor at Carleton University and a former Jennings secretary of state for African affairs (1981–1989), he served as chairman of the board of the Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. USIP (1992–2004) and is a founding member of the Global Leadership Foundation. With Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, he has edited and authored a number of books on conflict ERIC JARDINE joined CIGI as a research fellow in May 2014 in management and mediation. the Global Security & Politics Program. He contributes to Published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. CIGI’s work on Internet governance, including the CIGI–Chatham House-sponsored Global Commission on Internet Governance. His current research focuses on cyber security, cyber Aall terrorism, cybercrime and cyber protest. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Norman Paterson School of | Crocker International Affairs at Carleton University. Published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. ISBN 978-1-928096-15-3 ISBN 978-1-928096-21-4 Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker, Editors www.cigionline.org 9 781928 096214 Foreword by the Right Honourable Joe Clark www.cigionline.org REPLACE9781928096153 Fen Osler Hampson_and_Eric Jardine Minding the Gap Global Financial Governance Confronts Look Who’s Watching Edited by Pamela Aall and the Rising Powers Fen Osler Hampson and Eric Jardine Chester A. Crocker Edited by C. Randall Henning and To meet its full potential, users need to trust Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management Andrew Walter that the Internet works reliably and efficiently in a Time of Change focuses on the role of Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising when providing them with the information they mediation and peacekeeping in managing Powers addresses the challenge that the rising are seeking, while also being secure, private violence and political crises, looking at new ideas powers pose for global governance, substantively and safe. Edward Snowden’s revelations that and institutions emerging in the African space, as and institutionally, in the domain of financial the United States National Security Agency and well as at the structural and institutional obstacles and macroeconomic cooperation. It examines other government agencies are spying on Internet to developing a truly robust conflict management the issues before the G20 that are of particular users, the proliferation of cybercrime, the growing capability in Africa. In the end, the stakes are concern to these newly influential countries commodification of user data and regulatory too high in terms of human lives and regional and how international financial institutions and changes — which threaten to fragment the system stability to allow these obstacles to paralyze financial standard-setting bodies have responded. — are all rapidly eroding the confidence users have peace processes. These authors recognize the This book presents rising power perspectives on in the Internet ecosystem. Look Who’s Watching: enormity of the stakes and offers concrete financial policies and governance that should be of Why the World Is Losing Faith in the Internet recommendations on how to end conflict and lay keen interest to advanced countries, established confirms in vivid detail that the trust placed by the groundwork for building peace in Africa. and evolving institutions, and the G20. users in the Internet is increasingly misplaced. AVAILABLE NOW Enter the Dragon Elusive Pursuits Mutual Security in the Asia-Pacific Edited by Domenico Lombardi and Edited by Fen Osler Hampson and Edited by Kang Choi, James Manicom Hongying Wang Stephen M. Saideman and Simon Palamar Enter the Dragon: China in the International Financial System Elusive Pursuits: Lessons from Canada’s Interventions Myriad challenges to regional stability and security brings together experts from both inside and outside of Abroad is the 29th volume of the influential Canada threaten East Asia’s burgeoning growth and prosperity. China to explore issues regarding the internationalization Among Nations series. This book examines Canada’s role Mutual Security in the Asia-Pacific: Roles for Australia, of the renminbi (RMB). This volume tackles questions in foreign military and security missions, and its tendency Canada and South Korea addresses the economic and surrounding the process being used to attempt to achieve to intervene under the auspices of international security challenges that loom in the region and the role internationalization of the RMB, the broader issues related institutions. Canada is not just among nations in these that these three countries can play to ensure a stable, to the country’s financial integration with the rest of the efforts, but in nations on a regular basis. predictable political environment. world, and issues concerning China’s role in global financial governance.
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