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Walter Dorn | |
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| Born | July 11, 1961 |
| Occupation | military historian |
| Website | https://www.walterdorn.net/ |
Walter Dorn (born July 11, 1961) is a Canadian military historian and defence specialist. Dorn teaches military officers and civilian students at the Canadian Forces College (CFC) in Toronto and also at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston. He lectures and leads seminars on the ethics of armed force, peace operations, the United Nations, arms control, Canadian and US foreign/defence policy, Canadian government and society, and science/technology applications. He serves as chair of the Department of Security and International Affairs at CFC and previously was chair of the Master of Defence Studies programme at RMC.
He has served on the Board of Canadian Pugwash since 1995. From 2008 to 2013, he was chair of the group, which is the Canadian branch of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
He completed 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 on technology for peace operations, as well as at Cornell University, where he was a senior research fellow with the Institute for African Development.[1]
- ^ Dorn, A. Walter; Pauk, Robert; Burton, Emily Cope (2013-09-01). "True or False Warning? The United Nations and Threats to Namibia's Independence, 1989". International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 26 (3): 507–529. doi:10.1080/08850607.2013.780555. ISSN 0885-0607. S2CID 153439487.