The Parliamentary Team exists to examine official records relating to the Government of Canada and to detail with regular written reports how elected representatives understand, interact, or relate to R2P’s development as an international norm.
Parliamentary Studies Team
Amy Barlow
Amy Barlow is a M.A. student in the Department of Political Science at the University ofToronto. She graduated with an Honors B.A. in History and Political Science from the Universityof Toronto. Amy specializes in the historical antecedents to current human rights abusesagainst women in developing countries. She currently works for the Canadian Centre for theResponsibility to Protect, Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto as a PolicyResearch Analyst and Communications Officer. She assisted in the organization administrationof their conference Ten Years after the ICISS: Reflections for the Past and Future of the R2P. HerMaster’s research examines the effects of R2P in relation to the protection of women from sexualviolence in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her research interests include:human rights abuses against women in developing countries and the relationship between theseabuses to underdevelopment and the various external actors who impede development, such asWestern and US Foreign Policy, the ramifications of colonialism, de-colonization, the Cold War,the War on Terror and neo-imperialism.
Simon Capobianco
Simon is an undergraduate student in Philosophy, and Ethics Society and Law, at UofTSt.George. Although his primary interests are in philosophical esoterica like logic andset theory, he is politically active, and has published on issues ranging from refugeerights to global warming in The Varsity, UofT’s student newspaper. Outside of school,Simon enjoys jogging and playing ice-hockey, even though he is no good at either.Simon is interested in R2P because of it’s pertinence to both human rights and just wartheory; he is particularly interested in the relationship between state sovereignty andindividual rights, and how these values can or should be balanced.
Jihae Jang
To be updated.
James Li
To be updated.
Nikki Vukasovic
Nikki is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto completing a specialist degreein Political Science. Her interests include public policy, research methods and international affairs. Nikkialso works at a professional services firm in Toronto and as a Compliance Analyst with the G20 Research Group.