In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, Dave Perry talks to Lorena MacKenzie about the Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) Annual Breakfast. Then, he is joined by Aden Dur-e Aden, the second WiDS-CGAI Fellows, about extreme right organizations.

Go to www.wids.ca to get your tickets for the Breakfast!

Participants Bio:

Lorena MacKenzie is the president of Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) and the Manager, Marketing & Communications  at General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada  

Aden is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of Toronto. Her major fields are International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her PhD research focuses on comparing the recruits and non-recruits within the radical (far-right and Islamist) groups in Canada through a gendered lens. (https://www.cgai.ca/dur_e_aden)

Host Bio:

Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry)

What Aden Dur-e Aden is reading

Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk, https://thinklikeamonkbook.com/

Recording Date: 10 Feb 2020

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips