A week after Trump's dramatic announcement, the international community has roundly rejected any change in Jerusalem's status as contrary to International law, international norms and unhelpful for the 'peace process'. But what is the link between these broad, and often nebulous, concepts and real life in the city at the centre of this crisis. To answer these questions we speak to Dr. Nadia Abu-Zahra, Associate Professor in International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa.

On 5th December, US President Donald Trump declared his intention to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. To try and get a handle on what this means, we talk to Dr Fadi Elhusseini, a Political and Media Advisor and he is an advisory board member of the New Arab Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the Centre on Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

Interview with Simon Palamar Ph.D (Carleton University). At CIGI Simon manages the Constructive Powers Initiative, an informal, track 1.5, consultative body that brings together foreign policy planners and academic experts from a dozen countries to discuss sensitive, new, and emerging global security issues in a frank and open fashion.

Part 2 of my discussion with Jeff Halper. I began by asking him about the similarities between Israel and Canada as settler colonial states.

Part 1 of an interview with Jeff Halper an author, lecturer, and Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). We discuss his ideas, activism and new book, "War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification" (Pluto Press, 2015)

In this episode we discuss the ongoing occupation and colonization of Palestine by Israeli forces with Dr. Toufic Haddad, author of Palestine Ltd. Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory.

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In this episode we talk to Jacqueline Lopour, a Research Associate in Global Security & Politics at the Centre for International Governance Innovation with 10 years experience as a CIA analyst and Dr. Jamie Allinson, a lecturer at University of Edinburgh, who recently wrote an article on the background to ISIS called ‘Disaster Islamism’ in Salvage Magazine.

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What are Human Rights? Who gets to define them? How do Human Rights work in the 21st Century? Dr. Philip Leech-Ngo explores these issues in a riveting interview with John Packer, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa.