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		<title>The new Iran talks: will both sides finally take the steps they have so far refused?</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/18/the-new-iran-talks-will-both-sides-finally-take-the-steps-they-have-so-far-refused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear non-proliferation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To no one’s surprise, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had only derision for the recently resumed nuclear talks with Iran, but for most the Iran debate has moved from the merits of a military attack to the key elements of &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/18/the-new-iran-talks-will-both-sides-finally-take-the-steps-they-have-so-far-refused/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Fighter Aircraft: 36-year Life-Cycle Cost Estimate Comparisons</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/10/new-fighter-aircraft-36-year-life-cycle-cost-estimate-comparisons-3/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/10/new-fighter-aircraft-36-year-life-cycle-cost-estimate-comparisons-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defence and Human Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F-18 Hornet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F-35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new fighter aircraft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buying and operating contemporary fighter aircraft is hugely expensive, and the table (below) of cost comparisons suggests it doesn’t much matter whether they are fourth or fifth generation editions, whether stealth or not, still in development or off-the-shelf. The only real &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/10/new-fighter-aircraft-36-year-life-cycle-cost-estimate-comparisons-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The war in Sri Lanka is over but the search for peace continues</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/03/the-war-in-sri-lanka-is-over-but-the-search-for-peace-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/03/the-war-in-sri-lanka-is-over-but-the-search-for-peace-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canada has undertaken some welcome diplomatic activism in support of reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka – a critically important follow-up to the long and deadly civil war that ended in May 2009. Sri Lanka’s 26 year war with its &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/04/03/the-war-in-sri-lanka-is-over-but-the-search-for-peace-continues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iran and the limits of deterrence</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/30/iran-and-the-limits-of-deterrence/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/30/iran-and-the-limits-of-deterrence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deterrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-emptive attack]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://disarmingconflict.ca/?p=974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Deterrence would become the default response if Iran were not ultimately prevented from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but neither the Cold War nor the South Asian experience offers much hope that stability would ensue. While serious diplomacy to prevent weaponization &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/30/iran-and-the-limits-of-deterrence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP confirms investigation into Canadian drone transfers to Libya</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/28/rcmp-confirms-investigation-into-canadian-drone-transfers-to-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/28/rcmp-confirms-investigation-into-canadian-drone-transfers-to-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN embarg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://disarmingconflict.ca/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The RCMP has confirmed that it has been asked to investigate whether the transfer of Canadian built drones to Libya was in violation of Canadian regulations to implement a UN arms embargo on Libya. When the Department of Foreign Affairs &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/03/28/rcmp-confirms-investigation-into-canadian-drone-transfers-to-libya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian uranium and China’s nuclear weapons arsenal</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/02/17/canadian-uranium-and-chinas-nuclear-weapons-arsenal/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/02/17/canadian-uranium-and-chinas-nuclear-weapons-arsenal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safeguards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uranium exports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exporting uranium to any state with nuclear weapons should obviously proceed only with the greatest of caution. Hence, this two-fold question: Is Canada taking sufficient care to ensure that Canadian uranium will never end up in a Chinese bomb; can &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/02/17/canadian-uranium-and-chinas-nuclear-weapons-arsenal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to the basics of the Iran nuclear question</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/18/returning-to-the-basics-of-the-iran-nuclear-question/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/18/returning-to-the-basics-of-the-iran-nuclear-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East NWFZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear nonproliferation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://disarmingconflict.ca/?p=954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While a not-so-fringe cadre of Israelis and American Republicans can’t seem to stop talking about attacking Iran (at least for some Israelis it is still a question for debate,[i] for Republicans it’s become a campaign  promise[ii]), there are still places where more &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/18/returning-to-the-basics-of-the-iran-nuclear-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who will sit at the Afghan negotiating table?</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/07/who-will-sit-at-the-afghan-negotiating-table/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/07/who-will-sit-at-the-afghan-negotiating-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://disarmingconflict.ca/?p=951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news that the Taliban will open a political office in Qatar is rightly being welcomed as a watershed moment – even though it is a belated one, coming at the 10-year mark of the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan.  The &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2012/01/07/who-will-sit-at-the-afghan-negotiating-table/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian drones and the UN arms embargo on Libya</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/13/canadian-drones-and-the-un-arms-embargo-on-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/13/canadian-drones-and-the-un-arms-embargo-on-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armed Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian military exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sale of a Canadian-built surveillance drone to Libyan rebels last summer may well have been in violation of the UN arms embargo. The Government says it has asked the RCMP to investigate. In addition, a major gap in Canada’s &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/13/canadian-drones-and-the-un-arms-embargo-on-libya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Red Cross champions Nuclear Weapons Convention, Canada still tentative</title>
		<link>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/05/red-cross-champions-nuclear-weapons-convention-canada-still-tentative/</link>
		<comments>http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/05/red-cross-champions-nuclear-weapons-convention-canada-still-tentative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernie Regehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Humanitarian Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Cross]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement has come out strongly in support of negotiations toward a nuclear weapons convention, in a resolution passed at the biennial meeting of the Council of Delegates in Geneva a week ago. Emphasizing International Humanitarian Law &#8230; <a href="http://disarmingconflict.ca/2011/12/05/red-cross-champions-nuclear-weapons-convention-canada-still-tentative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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