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2013 Task Force Report Proposal Equatorial North: Centering the Arctic in Global and Local Security Published by University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies Instructors: Nadine Fabbi Joël Plouffe Special Adviser: Donat Savoie Expert Evaluator: Tony Penikett Author of the Foreword: Bernard Funston Editors: Charlotte Dubiel Binh Vong Design Editor: Kevin Shaw Coordinator: Ngoc Ho Task Force Team: Michael Brown Zoë Cosford Hannah Dolph Charlotte Guard Steven Moore Max Sugarman Rachel Tam Nicolas van Tulder Cover Photo, bottom right: Barry Pottle 1 2 Acknowledgements This Task Force report could not have been achieved without the generous support of a wide variety of individuals and organizations. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all those who donated their time, energy, funds, and passion to aid us in this extraordinary experience. University of Washington Wolfram Latsch, Lecturer in International Studies, Director of the Task Force Program Tamara Leonard, Associate Director, Center for Global Studies • Dan Mandeville, Nordic Studies Librarian • Siôn Romaine, Canadian Studies Librarian • Louise Richards, Fisheries and Oceanography Librarian • Monick Keo, Canadian Studies Center • Staff of the Odegaard Writing and Research Center • Presenters• Jean-François Arteau, Vice-President, Société d’habitation du Québec Kristin Bartenstein, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Université Laval • Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Senior Science Advisor, Canadian Polar Commission • Maria Beauséjour, Ministère des relations internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce • Extérieur du Québec • Richard Daigneault, International Affairs Advisor, National Assembly of Québec Louis-Jacques Dorais, Professeur titulaire, Département d’anthropologie, Université Laval • Mathieu Doyle Gosselin, International Affairs Advisor, Communication and Public Affairs • Division, Ministère des relations internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce Extérieur • du Québec Marc-André Dubois, Advisor, External Relations, World Wildlife Fund Luc Ferland, Member of Parliament for Ungava, Parti Québécois, Chair of the Committee on • InstitutionsLeanna Ellsworth, and Parliamentary Health and Climate Assistant Change to the Officer, Minister Inuit of NaturalCircumpolar Resources Council (Northern Affairs • Stefanfile) Fournier, Research Associate, Center for the North • BernieLouis Fortier, Funston, Professor Chair, Canadian of Oceanography, Polar Commission ArcticNet Scientific Director, Université Laval • Robert L. Gandolfo, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Attaché • • • MorleyKitty Gordon, Hanson, , Communications Coordinator, Nunavut Officer, Sivuniksavut Makivik Corporation • PhilippeBrigadier Hébert, General Director Guy Hamel, of Policy Commander, and Development, Joint Task ArcticForce NorthFile (Yellowknife) • Stephen Hendrie, Executive Director, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami • Anja Jeffrey, Director, Center for the North, Conference Board of Canada • André Jolin, Services touristiques • Joë Lance, Executive Assistant to the President of Makivik Corporation • Frédéric Lasserre, Professor of Geography, Université Laval • Lonzell Locklear, Special Advisor for Energy and Environment, Embassy of the United States of • America • John Mackay, President and Director General, Société d’habitation du Québec William Mackay, Senior Advisor on Intergovernmental Relations from the Territory of Nunavut • Dominic Maltais, Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones, Direction des relations et du suivi des • ententes, Gouvernement du Québec • Marc Meloche, Senior Policy Analysis, Canadian Polar Commission • internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce Extérieur du Québec • SiasiaAriadne Morel, Moisan, International Western States Affairs Desk Advisor, Officer, United United States States Division, Division, Ministère Ministère des des relations relations • 3 internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce Extérieur du Québec Nunavut Sivuniksavut Barry Pottle, Inuk photographer, Nunatsiavut • Siomonn Pulla, Senior Research Associate, Center for the North • Thierry Rodon, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Northern Sustainable • Development Research Chair, Université Laval • Julie Rodrigue, Advisor, Agency of Natives Affairs • Directorate, Global Marine and Northern Affairs Bureau • DonatRenée Savoie,Sauvé, Director,Inuit, Circumpolar Department and of Arctic Fisheries Affairs and Oceans (DFO), International Affairs Alexander Shestakov, Director, World Wildlife Fund, Global Arctic Programme • • Claude Trudelle, Deputy Director, Policies Analysis Division, Ministère des relations • internationales,Gretchen L. Tierje, de Sciencela Francophonie & Technology et du Officer, Commerce Embassy Extérieur of the du United Québec States of America • Melissa Weber, Policy Analyst, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, International Affairs Directorate, Global Marine and Northern Affairs Bureau • Lori Wilkinson, , Polar Continental Shelf Program Nick Xenos, Director of Arctic Science Policy and Integration, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern • Development Canada • Sponsors the Centers for Global Studies & Canadian Studies (International and Foreign Language Education, This program is supported by the Government of Québec (Visiting Professor & Québec Unit grants); Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education); the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Hellmannthe Fund Chapman for Innovation Charitable and Fund. Excellence in International Studies; International Studies Program Discretionary Fund; Maxwell M. and Julia Fisher Endowment; and, The success of this program would not have been possible without expert advice and assistance of Donat Savoie, President, Inuit, Arctic and Circumpolar Affairs Consulting Firm and Knight (Chevalier)We would ofalso the like National to express Order our of gratitudeQuébec (2010). to Bernard His input Funston and forfriendship writing havethe foreword been invaluable. to our report. We cannot think of a better way to begin the report. Finally, we would like to thank our instructors Nadine Fabbi and Joël Plouffe for their extraordinary support and guidance through the past ten weeks. 4 Preface History of the Arctic Task Force The Task Force on the Arctic prepares international studies majors to effectively deal with Arctic issues and to ensure that the voices of Québec and Canada, including the Inuit of Canada, are included in future negotiations regarding the region. The Task Force program in the Jackson School International Studies majors. has an over 25-year history impacting the research and professional development of hundreds of experience is required for International Studies majors in the Henry M. Jackson School of The Task Force is a 10-week, 5-credit seminar held in winter quarter. This capstone Studies students may be preparing for careers in multi-faceted non-governmental and governmentalInternational Studies organizations, at the University the Task Force of Washington offers students (UW). the Recognizing opportunity that to many address International policy questions in a “real world” setting. The seminar operates much like a Presidential or Royal Commission – the students research a current and relevant policy issue, prepare a written report, 2009and present Task Force their policyon the recommendations Arctic – to an outside expert in the field. http://jsis.washington.edu/canada/file/archive/taskforce09/ students The produced first Task the Force report, on Towardsthe Arctic, Arctic led by Resolution: Vincent Gallucci Issues ofand Sovereignty Nadine Fabbi, and focused Governance on in theArctic Circumpolar sovereignty, North was includingoffered in chapters2009 and on included the Canada-U.S. a one-week dispute research over tripthe Northwestto Ottawa. ThirteenPassage, shipping issues, and the role of Canada’s Inuit in Arctic sovereignty. The students presented their Honorablefindings to MentionRob Heubert, at the Centre UW Libraries for Military Research and Strategic Award for Studies, Undergraduates. University of Calgary. The report was also presented at the 12th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, and won 2011 Task Force on the Arctic – http://jsis.washington.edu/canada/courses/arctic.shtml and the Makivik Corporation, Nunavik, created a partnership to involve Canadian Inuit participants In 2011, in an effort to create a truly international educational experience, Canadian Studies Governance team, led by V. Gallucci and N. Fabbi. The international team spent a week in Ottawa in the program. As a result, 14 UW students and two Makivik participants formed the 2011 Arctic visiting Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; six Arctic U.S.country Representative embassies; forscholars the Arctic with Council, the Faculty served of Law as the at theexpert University evaluator. of Ottawa; ministers of parliament; and Canada’s offices for the national and international Inuit associations. Julie Gourley, 2013 Task Force on the Arctic – http://jsis.washington.edu/canada/courses/arcticpolicy.shtml grant, Joël Plouffe, l’Université du Québec à Montréal, served as co-instructor of the Task Force and the Task In Force 2013 team the Task was Forceable to focused travel to on both Arctic Québec security. City Thanks and Ottawa to a Government as part of their of Québec research experience. Nadine C. Fabbi is the Associate Director of the Canadian Studies Center. For the last ten years her work has centered on the history and geopolitics of the circumpolar north.
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