Walter Dorn

Dorn, A. Walter, Ph.D., scientist, educator, Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Organization; b. Toronto, Ontario 11 July 1961.

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Dr. Dorn teaches in Toronto at the Canadian Forces College (CFC) and also in Kingston at the Royal Military College (RMC). He did his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Toronto and now applies this scientific background toward the study of peace and conflict issues. He has pursued this work at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Nova Scotia, where he developed and taught courses, as well as at Cornell University, where he was a Senior Research Fellow.

In 2006, he was commissioned by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) to conduct a study on technologies for peacekeeping, especially for monitoring of conflicts, borders, sanctions, civilian protection, staff security, and various Security Council mandates. His report was welcomed by the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping, composed of 124 member states who contribute to peacekeeping, and DPKO is now seeking to implement the report's recommendations. He also assisted with the negotiation, ratification, and implementation of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) as the CWC Coordinator with Parliamentarians for Global Action. Dr. Dorn addressed the UN General Assembly in 1988 at the Second UN Special Session on Disarmament. Since 1983, he has served as the UN Representative of Science for Peace, a Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO).

Dr. Dorn also has wide-ranging experience in United Nations field missions such as the United Nations Mission in East Timor, the UNDP projects in Ethiopia, and as a Training Adviser with the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Of late, he has conducted a review of the peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dr. Dorn's papers can be found on his website www.cfc.dnd.ca/dorn.

Selected Bibliography

• "World Order For a New Millennium: Political, Cultural and Spiritual Approaches to Building Peace." (St. Marin's Press and Macmillan press, 1999)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis Resolved
• Who is Dying for Peace?
• Canadian Peacekeeping: No Myth But Not What It Once Was
• Canada pulls out of peacekeeping
• Afghanistan and UN Peacekeeping - Testimony to the Foreign Affairs Committee
• Intelligence and Peacekeeping: The UN Operation in the Congo 1960-64
• Intelligence and the Operation in Eastern Zaire 1996
• Intelligence-Gathering in UN Peacekeeping: The Limits
• Militias in East Timor: Personal Encounters
• Preventing the Bloodbath:Could the UN have Predicted & Prevented the Rwanda Genocide?

References

• Peace Magazine Profile
• RMC Profile
• National Film Board of Canada, "The Peacekeepers," 2005
• Canadian Pugwash Group