Past Research Projects
2009
November 2009
Noemi Gal-Or presented a paper entitled "The Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Do the Good Intentions Pave the Road to Hell or to Heaven?" at the Inssbruck Symposium on the Responsibility to Protect: A Canadian Heritage. Peacekeeping, Diplomacy, Media, and Literature Responding to Humanitarian Challenges, November 11th to 14th, 2009, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
October 2009
Noemi Gal-Or organised a panel entitled "Can the Non-State Actor Be Accommodated within Traditional International Law?", to be held at the conference on Challenges to Transnational Governance, International Law Weekend, American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) in October 22-24, 2009, New York. She will be chairing the session and presenting a paper on the "Desirability of an Enhanced Legal Position of Non-State Actors".
September 2009
Noemi Gal-Or presented a paper on " The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Revival of the International Trusteeship Concept" for the panel on Changing Normative Orders in Security Governance, 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 10-12 September, 2009
June 2009
Frances Chiang (Sociology), Noemi Gal-Or (Political Science), and Jessie Horner (Criminology) attended the first International Conference on Gender Studies in China held at Fudan University, Shanghai. The Conference was co-organised by the University of Michigan and Fudan University's Institute for Gender Studies.
For this multidisciplinary conference, Noemi Gal-Or organised the only legal panel entitled The Legal Personality of Women. The panel was chaired by Francis Chiang who also served as discussant. Noemi Gal-Or presented a paper entitled ""Is the Law Empowering or Patronizing Women? The Dilemma in the French Burqa Decision”, and Jessie Horner presented a paper entitled "In the Shadow of Citizenship: The Elusive Promise Made to Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada". We were very honoured to have Professor Peggy McIntosh, form Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, USA, one of the most renowned feminist academics, attend, and participate in, our session. Noemi Gal-Or also chaired the session on Gender and Public Policy.
February 2009
Noemi Gal-Or presented a paper entiled " Revisiting Ann Tickner" for the Feminist ISA section Revisiting Peace and Security,Panel on revisiting Ann Tickner's statement: "Women have defined security as the absence of violence whether it be military, economic or sexual." (1992), International Studies Association (ISA) 50th Annual Conference, NY, 15-18 February.
2008
August / October 2008
Noemi Gal-Or presented papers at the Law for the Future, ILA Biennial Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2008, The Hard Edge of Soft Law - The Real Impact of Customary International Law and Soft Law in Canada? CBA International Law CLE Programme, Toronto, ON, October 2008, and at the Symposium Investor-State Arbitration: Perspectives on Legitimacy and Practice & acted as moot arbitration panelist and paenl president at the Inaugural Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition , Suffolk University School of Law & Pepperdine University School of Law, Boston, MA, October-November, 2008.
June 2008
Collaborating with Cornelia Ulbert, Executive Director, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden/Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Noemi Gal-Or is working on the privatisation of international trade and investment dispute settlement mechanisms within the larger project on "Private Actors and Global Governance" for ACUNS (Academic Council on the United NationsSystems), to be presented at the ACUNS 2008 Annual Meeting, The UN and the Global Development Architecture, 5-7 June, 2008, Bonn, Germany.
May 2008
Noemi Gal-Or is working on a paper entitled "Let’s Discuss Occupation: Stagnant Law versus New Post Bellum", to be presented at the Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur la sécurité internationale (GERSI)/Research Group in International Security (REGIS), ATELIER pour les femmes en sécurité internationale, 1er au 4 mai 2008, Montréal, Québec.
April 2008
Noemi Gal-Or is working on a paper entitled "Is Trans-disciplinary Dialogue Possible? Translating International Relations and International Law to Each Other", to be presented at the IPSA International ConferenceInternational Political Science: New theoretical & Regional Perspectives, Concordia University, Montreal (Quebec), April 30-May 2, 2008.
March 2008
Transborder Emergency Preparedness Grant: The Institute for Transborder Studies (ITS), co-applicant and principal Canadian partner collaborating with the Transborder Disaster Management Group (TDMG), Western Washington University, receive a CAD$ 12,000 research grant under the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) North American Research Linkages Program. ITS Director, Dr. Noemi Gal-Or, who has been working extensively on developing a Canadian-US-Mexican borderland academic cooperative framework model is looking forward to working with TDMG's Dr. Jason Levy. The funded proposal encourages trilateral disaster management cooperation through increased institutional and research partnerships and mobility.
On March 27, 2008, Kwantlen's ITS hosted the first workgroup meeting took on its Richmond Campus in order to discuss the first stages of the project. Participants included: Dr. Jason Levy (WWU), Dr. Wayne Turnberg (Epidemiology, WA DOH), Dr. John Erickson (WA DOH), Lynn Orstad (Emergency Program Manager, Fraser Valley Regional District), Dr. Diane Symonds (Kwantlen), and Dr. Noemi Gal-Or (ITS).
2007
September 2007:
Noemi Gal-Or presented on, “The Under-Representation of Women and Women's Perspectives in International Dispute Resolution Processes”, at the International Bar Association, Annual Conference, Singapore.
Noemi Gal-Or and Michael Strauss (Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques - Paris) are co-organisers of the panel "Inventing and Reviving International Legal Instruments to Address the Diversification of International Security Threats", Towards a New Vision of International Law, International Law Weekend 2007. They will present a co-authored paper entitled "International Leases as a Legal Instrument of Conflict Resolution: The Shebaa Farms as a Proto-type for the Resolution of Territorial Conflicts".
August 2007:
Noemi Gal-Or and Dr. Bernhard Kitous (Head, Master ECOFI - Risk and Quality Management (RQM), Institute of Political Studies, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France) presented their co-authored paper on “Urban Violence: Lessons from the Intifada and the French Banlieues” at the international conference Urban Justice and Sustainability, International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, August 23, 2007.
June 2007:
Noemi Gal-Or presented her paper on “Suspending Sovereignty: An Alternative to Occupation in the 21st Century? (Lessons from Lebanon)" at the international conference Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context, The Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Tel Aviv Delegation, & The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Jerusalem & Tel Aviv, Israel, 5-7 June, 2007.
