Dr. Walter Dorn,
Canada

Dr. Dorn is a Visiting Professor with the Department of Politics and Economics, and a faculty member of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.

He is a scientist by training (Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Toronto), whose doctoral research was aimed at chemical sensing for arms control. He assisted with the negotiation, ratification and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). As CWC program coordinator at Parliamentarians for Global Action (1992-93), he addressed parliamentary committees in many nations on this subject.

His interests are now broader, covering both international and human security, especially peacekeeping and the United Nations. He has served in field missions. In 1999, he was a district electoral officer with the United Mission in East Timor. He also served with the UN in Ethiopia (UNDP project), as a Training Adviser with UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations. He carried out research in conflict areas in Central and South America, Africa and South East Asia.

Since 1983, he has been the UN Representative of Science for Peace,
a Canadian NGO, and addressed the UN General Assembly in 1988 at the Second UN Special Session on Disarmament.

In the United States, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Cornell University (Einaudi Centre for International Studies 1998-00), a consultant to Yale University (United Nations Studies, 1996), a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Monitoring Centre (Sandian National Labs, NM, 1999) and adviser to the Federation of American Scientist (Biological Weapons Control expert group, 1990).

At the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, he teaches an annual course, "Live, Move and Work: Technology and Engineering in Modern Peacekeeping", as well as lectures and conducts research there. At the University of Toronto, he was a Research Fellow with the International Relations Programme as well as the Peace and Conflict Studies Programme, and the Physical Science Don at Trinity College.

In 2001/02 he is the inaugural DFAIT Human Security Fellow (academic), using the fellowship to write on a book : "The Emerging Global Watch: UN Monitoring for International Peace and Human Security."