Rethinking Canadian Aid: Second Edition

 Stephen Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His prior work on Canadian aid policy has appeared in, among other places, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2007), Canada Among Nations (2007 and 2013), L'aide canadienne au développement (2008), Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas, 2nd edition (2011) and Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order (2013). He is the editor of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid (2012) and is currently co-editing a book entitled The Securitization of Foreign Aid, for which he has written a case study on Canada. He has also published widely on foreign aid, democracy and conflict prevention, especially in relation to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Molly den Heyer is a Senior Program Analyst with Coady International Institute at St. Francis Xavier University and Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research interests include critical approaches to aid administration, planning, monitoring and evaluation, aid policy, research methods, participation, and development theory. During her 15 years in development research and practice, Molly has worked as a planning and evaluation specialist for development organizations such as IDRC in Ottawa and First Nations communities in Nova Scotia. She also taught several courses in Development Studies at Dalhousie University, St. Mary’s University and St. Francis Xavier University.

David Black is Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He was previously Chair of the Department of IDS. His research has focused on Canada’s role in Sub-Saharan Africa, including development assistance, human security, multilateral diplomacy, and extractive industry investment; post-apartheid South Africa in Africa; and Sport in World Politics and Development. Among his more recent publications, he is co-editor of The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The case of Darfur (Routledge, 2010); co-editor of A Decade of Human Security (Ashgate 2006); co-editor of a Special Issue of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal on “Canadian Multilateralism: Past, Present, Future” (2010); and editor of a special section of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies on “Canadian Aid Policy” (2007). In 2011/12, he received the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2012/13 he received the FASS Award for Service Excellence. Beyond the university, he has served as President of the International Studies Association’s Canadian section, on the Executive of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, and as co-Director of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security.