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Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice

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In the late twentieth century, changing conceptions of violence, coupled with an increased awareness of the risk of genocide and mass atrocities, caused a reconsideration of what armed conflict looked like and how the world should respond. The Government of Canada developed and promoted an orientation toward a broad definition of security as an extension of their existing approach to international engagement and foreign policy. Through support for international bodies such as the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty as well as the explicit incorporation of the concept of human security into the Canadian development and security strategies and support for the Responsibility to Protect, the Canadian government effectively promoted broad concepts of peace and security in the United Nations and internationally.

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Seyle, D.C. (2019). Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice. In: Kulnazarova, A., Popovski, V. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78905-7_10

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