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2026 NATO Defense College Fellowship - 2026 du Collège de défense de l'OTAN

MINDS is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2026 NATO Defense College Fellowship in Rome, Italy. 

This unique opportunity is open to Canadian citizens with a doctoral degree interested in researching defence and security issues of relevance to Canada and NATO.

The selected Fellow will receive a Can$100,000 grant to cover all expenses related to attending and conducting research at the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy, for a period of five (5) months, from March to July 2026.

Applications can be submitted until 23:59 (PDT) on July 14, 2025.

 For more information and to apply, please visit our website: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/programs/minds/funding-opportunities.html

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MINDS a le plaisir d'annoncer que nous acceptons dès aujourd’hui les candidatures pour la bourse 2026 du Collège de défense de l'OTAN à Rome.

 Cette opportunité unique est ouverte aux personnes détenant la citoyenneté canadienne et titulaires d'un doctorat intéressé.e.s à travailler sur les questions de défense et de sécurité pertinentes pour le Canada et l’OTAN.

 La personne sélectionnée pour cette bourse recevra une subvention de 100 000 $ CA pour couvrir toutes les dépenses liées à sa participation et à ses recherches au Collège de défense de l’OTAN à Rome, en Italie, pendant une période de cinq (5) mois, de mars à juillet 2026.

 Les candidatures peuvent être soumises jusqu'à 23h59 (HAP) le 14 juillet 2025.

 Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements ou pour poser votre candidature, veuillez consulter notre site web au:

https://www.canada.ca/fr/ministere-defense-nationale/programmes/minds/opportunites-de-financement.html

 

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CPSA: The Politics of Belonging: Conflict, Community, Curriculum

The politics of belonging are ubiquitous at the international, national and local levels. Conflicts at the global level often revolve around competing claims to territory. These protracted conflicts pit contested visions of belonging: Who does this territory belong to? And who belongs to this territory? Scholars of ethnic conflict know all too well how identity politics can intersect with other factors to fuel intra-state conflicts.

Yet the politics of belonging do not only play out at the global level. Nor do they necessarily breed violent conflict. Local communities across Canada have experienced heated conversations around belonging that challenge the longstanding model of multiculturalism. From divisive debates around immigration to the rise of nativism, who belongs – and who does not belong – are central questions underpinning difficult discussions around citizenship and nation-building. While Québec’s Bill 21 has generated much discussion in media and scholarly circles regarding religious community rights, provinces such as Alberta have also waded into the waters of identity politics by threatening the rights of the transgender community. These and other recent developments reveal the need to recognize the intersectional nature of the politics of belonging as race, gender, religion, class, sexuality, etc. intersect in various ways to include/exclude different communities.

Finally, the politics of belonging clearly inform our practice as teachers in the classroom as we are confronted with the challenge of updating our curricula. As the political science community works towards Indigenizing our discipline, we are reminded of the narrowness that long informed our approach to teaching in this field. Yet as we work to Indigenize our curricula and decolonize our universities more broadly, we ought to take note of the recent developments and pushback against critical race theory in our neighbor to the south. Despite the repeated invocations to academic freedom, the university curriculum is clearly not immune to the politics of belonging in our wider society and continues to be shaped by coloniality.

While we welcome a diversity of approaches, perspectives, and topics in this call for papers, we encourage you to reflect on the ways in which the politics of belonging shape our world, communities, and wider profession. As such, we look forward to receiving your paper proposals and to engaging in thought-provoking discussions at George Brown College in Toronto in 2025!

The Programme Committee also invites submissions in all areas of political science, spanning one or more of our 16 disciplinary sections and competitions (3MT and Posters).

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Operationalizing Reconstitution – Research Insights on Recruitment & Retention in the Canadian Armed Forces?

Special issue of the CDAI journal ON TRACK titled Operationalizing Reconstitution – Research Insights on Recruitment & Retention in the Canadian Armed Forces? The issue was developed with our partner organization Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis (DGMPRA), and of course published by another of our partners, CDAI.

The special issue focuses on empirical considerations and research directions for understanding recruitment and retention. Taken together, the brief articles in this volume of ON TRACK provide important insights regarding Reconstitution, including the key factors, challenges, and enablers of military personnel recruitment and retention.

The special issue can be found at: https://cdainstitute.ca/volume-32-operationalizing-reconstitution-research-insights-on-recruitment-retention-in-the-caf/

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