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National Defence committee  Are you going to give me money?

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  I feel very fortunate. I do feel very well funded because just the title of being a Canada research chair is a good one. I do well. I get really good funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I actually get a fair bit of research money from everywhere. To

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  You know GBA+, gender-based analysis plus, the one that doesn't just consider gender but all the other factors that I mentioned, the identity markers. I think that's something peacekeeping missions should take far more seriously, that the identities of peacekeepers are more compl

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  It could be, but the other thing that needs to be addressed is that the interactions between peacekeepers and local populations are so formal. There's very little opportunity. It's always funny to read things that talk about these kinds of utopian visions of peacekeepers and fr

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  They meet in basements, that sort of thing, and often don't have resources. In that regard, I also really like the fact that this $150 million is not tied. They want to give it to organizations that are already doing the right thing on the ground, and not micromanaging them to sa

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  I've been asked this as well several times. It was considered a huge move that Canada recently.... We have comply or explain now, which is the lowest bar. There's comply or explain, then there are targets, and then there are quotas. Unfortunately, quotas are burdened with all of

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive. When a group of people have been under-represented significantly in an institution, then I think saying we should treat everyone equally doesn't make any sense because that group has been historically under-represented. By th

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  Again, I don't think we need to pick one or the other. If there is a special vehicle that is needed to address that specific problem, by all means we should have it, but I don't think that this should delude us into believing that this special vehicle is going to solve the proble

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  No, not at all; that was never my argument. I don't think there's anything wrong. It's actually a fairly small amount of money if you think about it, and they might need more than that. I don't see anything wrong with spending that money on improving women's experiences, training

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  I would say to try to change institutional cultures at a deeper level. Changing institutional cultures that foster behaviours like harassment and bullying will make a much bigger difference, because if we leave intact the structures that are problematic, then having more women ad

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  Hugely. In fact, all the research that has been done, even on peacekeeping operations, suggests that all of those things matter. It matters much more to have race, gender, education, language, nationality all factored in. I think it's really important to think of diversity in int

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  No, I would not. I hope I didn't make it sound as though that is the primary consideration. I think it's part of a broader effort of moving us back towards a different place at the UN, and I appreciate that. There is tremendous power to be had in being in the UN General Assembly.

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  That is a big question. There is a much deeper reckoning to be had in terms of how militaries operate and how institutional hierarchies and reporting mechanisms operate. It's not a secret that we have issues with women in the military, and in Canada we have issues with the RCMP.

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah

National Defence committee  That's a really good question, and I've faced it multiple times. One thing I feel very strongly about is that even when I'm doing this work and I'm speaking to businesses, for example, whose bottom line is they are beholden to shareholders. They care about profits. We know that.

September 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Dr. Bipasha Baruah