CERES hosted a conference on 27 April devoted to security policy and the 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw that brought together Canadian parliamentarians, academics, journalists, students, diplomats and representatives of Polish and Ukrainian communities.

Participants included:

Robert Austin – Associate Professor, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs

Brigadier General Sławomir Wojciechowski, Deputy Operational Commander of Polish Armed Forces

Marcin Bosacki – Ambassador of Poland to Canada

Kerry Buck – Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council

Brian Lee Crowley – Managing Director, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

John E. Herbst – Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, former US Ambassador to Ukraine

Lucan Way, Professor, Ukrainian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs

James Sherr – Associate Fellow of the Chatham House

Lieutenant-Colonel Jason Guiney – former Commander of Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine

Commander Pascal Belhumeur – Commanding Officer HMCS Winnipeg, deployed on Op. REASSURANCE

Paul Wells – Maclean’s Magazine

Michał Miarka – Deputy Director, Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Markus Kaim – Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Paul Chapin – Executive Editor of The Vimy Report, former diplomat

 

Read more here from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ottawa.