/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/2150/all en /maxbellschool/article/mpp-video/our-people-pearl-eliadis <p>In this video, Max Bell School Associate Member Pearl Eliadis, who teaches a Policy Case Study and a Core Policy Course at the Max Bell School, uses an example of snow removal to demonstrate how reframing policy questions can lead to better outcomes.</p> Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:14:18 +0000 Max Bell School of Public Policy 1801 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/article/mpp-video/our-people-chantal-hebert <p>For the past few weeks, political columnist Chantal Hébert has been teaching in our MPP program. We sat down with her to find out why she thinks understanding the political landscape is key to being able to craft good public policy.</p> Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:09:12 +0000 Max Bell School of Public Policy 1752 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/article/mpp-our-people-video/our-people-jennifer-welsh <p>In this interview, we spoke to Jennifer Welsh about the challenges of creating policy in a rapidly changing and increasingly connected world. Welsh also speaks on why we need to rethink how public policy is created and encourage innovation in the policy space.</p> <p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-3"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-i1ikhgvf-sk" width="640" height="390" title="Our People: Jennifer Welsh" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/i1iKHGVF-sk?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-i1ikhgvf-sk&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name="Our People: Jennifer Welsh" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Video of Our People: Jennifer Welsh</iframe> </div> </p> <h2>About Jennifer Welsh</h2> <p><span>Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at ƻ����Ժ. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect.</span></p> <p>Professor Welsh is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent books include <i>The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st century </i>(2016), which was based on her CBC Massey Lectures, and <i>The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention</i> (2015). She was a former recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship, and from 2014-2019 has directed a five-year European Research Council-funded project called “The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law and Politics of Armed Conflict”. She is also a frequent media commentator on international affairs and Canadian foreign policy.</p> <p>Professor Welsh sits on the editorial boards of the journals <i>Global Responsibility to Protect, International Journal,</i> and <i>Ethics and International Affairs</i>, and on the Advisory Boards of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. She has a BA from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar).</p> <p> Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:13:57 +0000 Max Bell School of Public Policy 1816 at /maxbellschool