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Lecture 9

Monday March 7, 2011

PEACE ST 2BB3: Introduction to the Study of War

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

at home and abroadCanada and war?

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Outline

Afghanistan

Oka & Kanehsatake

Ipperwash

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Somalia affair

Canadas nationalshame (1993)

Bad apples or systemicproblems?

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Citations & further reading

Sherene Razack (2004) Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeepingand the New Imperialism, University of Toronto Press.

Graeme Smith (2007) From Canadian custody into cruel hands Savage beatings,

electrocution, whipping and extreme cold: Detainees detail a litany of abuses byAfghan authorities The Globe and Mail, April 23. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070423.wdetainee23/BNStory/Afghanistan

Rick Westhead (2008) Dont look, dont tell, troops told The Toronto Star, June 16.http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/443954

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Image sources

Pablo Picasso (1937) Guernica. Oil on canvas.

Unknown soldier in Iraq. Date unknown. sourced from http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/some-interior-situational-sources-war--part-v/

Carlos Latuff (2003) War 2. Sourced from http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/War-2-27832944

Crimethinc (undated) War on Terror/Drugs. http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/

Shaney Komulainen of Canadian Press (Sept 1 1990) Pte. Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimetersentry, and Mohawk Warrior Brad "Freddy Krueger" Larocque face off. Remixed by dangerousbob,deviantART http://dangerousbob.deviantart.com/art/Okarom-Crisis-79679086

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