The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Toronto branch of the Canadian International Council hosted a roundtable discussion on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for international security on 28 April 2020. The free-flowing dialogue ranged from the 1919 influenza pandemic to the UN Security Council and WHO to the shifting balance of power in Asia.
Ambassador Salome Meyer of Switzerland served as moderator for this panel, which featured the following three distinguished experts, who each brought a unique professional and scholarly perspective to bear on this vital question:
Mark Humphries holds the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience and is Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the author of The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada.
Rosemary McCarney is the Pearson-Sabia Scholar in International Relations at Trinity College, University of Toronto. An award-winning humanitarian and business leader, she served as Canada’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva with responsibilities for the World Health Organization from 2015-2019.
Bruno Charbonneau is Professor of International Relations at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean and Director of the Centre FrancoPaix en résolution des conflits et missions de paix at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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