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Invitation to a Youth Competition

Oct 10, 2025
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If you are a 4th year undergraduates and/or graduate Canadian university students, this invite is for you. 

The Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (CNANW) in partnership with Canadian Pugwash Group are pleased to invite you to a youth competition to award three bursaries in the amount of $2,500 each for the production of an essay and/or video. The outcome is to explore the move from a world where some nations possess and rely upon nuclear weapons, to a global security paradigm based upon a Common Security framework, without nuclear weapons.  

 

You will find enclosed the application letter with all the details.

 

The dates to remember are as follows:

  • The deadline for submission is December 1, 2025, 12:00 pm ET.

  • The selection committee aim to announce the three successful candidates on January 1, 2026, 12:00 pm ET.

  • The three selected participants will have four months, to 1 May 2026, to present their completed project.


For any additional information, please contact Dr. Sylvie Lemieux, CNANW Steering Committee member and Board member of Group of 78, at slemieux3599@rogers.com  or Dr. Arnd Jurgensen, CNANW Steering Committee member and Board member of Science for Peace at ajurgensen@sympatico.ca.


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E-7705 

An important e-petition about Canada peacekeepers headcount

Science for Peace believes the UN peacekeeping mission program is an important tool for minimizing conflicts around the world. Guided by impartiality and undertaken only with the consent of warring parties, missions under this program are critical in the efforts to transition violent societies to peace.

 

We know that Canada has a long history of supporting these missions and has earned a significant reputation for its expertise in this area. Thus we have been dismayed by the fact that the actual number of Canadian peacekeepers has been drastically reduced over the last decade. Despite the paucity of our country’s contribution, we know that Canada is nonetheless recognized for its leadership and know-how.

 

We want to dramatically enlarge the contingent of Canadian Peacekeepers and play our part in the worthy project of reducing violence in this turbulent world. As well, in light of ongoing changes in Peacekeeping technology, we believe Canada should invest majorly in tech training and support for our Peacekeepers, and at the same time furnish such skill development to countries less able to provide this for their own contingents.

 

To focus public attention on this critical issue, we have created an e-petition to the government and are seeking your support.

Please have a look and sign e-7705 if you agree.

 

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7705

 

 

Gilles Fecteau

Treasurer, Science for Peace

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Science for Peace

A Peace Education NGO

Based in Toronto

 

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Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7 Canada

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