National Defence committee  I think Congo is begging for some assistance. I realize what that landscape is. We've been there since 1960. I think places like Timor...to continue capacity-building and strengthening that environment, and keeping our eye on what's going to happen in Sudan with the elections com

National Defence committee  There has clearly been a need expressed by the 35 different PRTs for some semblance of coherence, for similar patterns. But again, when this is a new idea, sometimes we have to do what we do right now in order to learn the lessons, and figure out what the best practices are when

National Defence committee  I think this is where my language of the “blue briefcase” becomes really important. It is that other side of the security envelope where you get rule of law, corrections, justice, economics, and institution building, that has to move alongside of the military when you're coming i

National Defence committee  Again, I'm not going to damn the military. I think they are extraordinarily well trained, and I think they do have that strategic, corporal piece of them that we've all read so much about. So yes, they can do those things. They can do them singly or they can do them in conjunctio

National Defence committee  In Afghanistan it's going to be that continued involvement at the local level and making sure that which is local stays safe. And that can extrapolate up, then, into the regional and then into the national. So with the staying power to ensure local stability, people begin to see

National Defence committee  Part of it is confidence building. Part of it is capability analysis. A lot of it is capacity-building. A lot of it is involvement of the women of Afghanistan, who are far more powerful than we give them credit for being. So again, it's that more holistic look at what we can do

National Defence committee  In Afghanistan?

National Defence committee  I would like to see Canada stay, in terms of development, in terms of diplomacy. I would like it to be engaged in capacity-building for the Afghan government. How do you get rule of law that is both culturally appropriate and within the confines of universal principles? Again, it

National Defence committee  I would tend to agree. I don't think the North and South Korea situation, if it emerges into conflict, is going to be the kind of place where what we call complex peace operations will be valuable in the initial stage. I think there's going to be much more involvement by the la

National Defence committee  That course is sponsored and paid for by member states or institutions like the PPC. The United Nations puts together a list of potential SRSGs—heads of mission, force commanders, police commissioners, heads of country teams—and brings them together for a two-week period to work

National Defence committee  It is still there, and one can argue that if there was leadership on the Security Council, at the Secretariat, in a devising of mandates that were clear and resourced appropriately, and if there was the political will to have that mandate, then peace enforcement or complex peace

National Defence committee  I think in the future, precisely that will have to happen. The developed world, if it's going to go back, will put on very strong terms and references for the UN Security Council and Secretariat. It will be if you want A, then you must do B. And then Katy, bar the door for the C3

National Defence committee  I think that's why there's such an interest in Canada having a non-permanent seat on the Security Council.

National Defence committee  I'm equally torn, because I think Canada's presence is important. It's not going to become any less complex, and I don't think there's an easy answer for this.

National Defence committee  I'm talking at all levels of this. Any time you can do a training activity that is scenario-based, that puts military, police, and civilians in the same room and compels them to deal with the issues to solve the problem, whether it's a Canadian group of people, Africans, or who