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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.
( Knowledge is power. In the hands of UN peacekeepers, it...)
Knowledge is power. In the hands of UN peacekeepers, it can be a power for peace. Lacking knowledge, peacekeepers often find themselves powerless in the field, unable to protect themselves and others. The United Nations owes it to the world and to its peacekeepers to utilize all available tools to make its monitoring and surveillance work more effective. Keeping Watch explains how technologies can increase the range, effectiveness, and accuracy of UN observation. Satellites, aircraft, and ground sensors enable wider coverage of many areas, over longer periods of time, while decreasing intrusiveness. These devices can transmit and record imagery for wider dissemination and further analysis, and as evidence in human rights cases and tribunals. They also allow observation at a safe distance from dangerous areas, especially in advance of UN patrols, humanitarian convoys, or robust forces. While sensor technologies have been increasing exponentially in performance while decreasing rapidly in price, however, the United Nations continues to use technologies from the 1980s. This book identifies potential problems and pitfalls with modern technologies and the challenges to incorporate them into the UN system. The few cases of technologies effectively harnessed in the field are examined, and creative recommendations are offered to overcome the institutional inertia and widespread misunderstandings about how technology can complement human initiative in the quest for peace in war-torn lands. "Walter Dorn is one of the most thoughtful and knowledgeable analysts of peacekeeping and security policy, and this book makes an important contribution to a field that needs far more public discussion."—The Hon. Bob Rae, MP for Toronto Centre and Liberal Foreign Affairs critic
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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.
Dorn teaches military officers and civilian students in Toronto at the Canadian Forces College (CFC) and also in Kingston at the Royal Military College of Canada (Royal Military College). He lectures and leads seminars on peace operations, the ethics of armed force, the United Nations, arms control, Canadian and United States foreign/defence policy, Canadian government and society, and science/technology applications. He also serves as Chair of the Department of Security and International Affairs at the CFC. 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 United Nations 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 United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping, composed of 124 member states who contribute to peacekeeping, and DPKO is seeking to implement the report"s recommendations. His book, KEEPING WATCH: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in United Nations Peace Operations, further advances the subject.
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. Dorn addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 1988 at the Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament.
Since 1983, he has served as the United Nations Representative of Science for Peace, a Canadian non-governmental organization (non-governmental organization).
Dorn also has experience in United Nations field missions such as the United Nations Mission in East Timor, the United Nations Development Programme projects in Ethiopia, and as a Training Adviser with the United Nations"s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).
( Knowledge is power. In the hands of UN peacekeepers, it...)