New Horizons

Canadian & International Maritime Security Symposium

Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary

8:30 Welcoming Remarks
 * Dr. Stephen Randall, Dean of Social Sciences, University of Calgary
 * Karsten von Hoesslin, Centre for Military & Strategic Studies, University of Calgary

8:45 Keynote Address: Canada and the Maritime Security Environment
 * Capt (N) Kelly Williams, National Defence

9:15 Plenary Panel: Canada's Three Oceans
 Chair: Capt (N) Kelly Williams, National Defence

 *CMD Peter Haydon (Rt), Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
 "The Canadian Navy Looks East"

 * Dr. Robert Huebert, Centre for Military & Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
 "Too Cold to Jump In: Maritime Policy in the Arctic Ocean"

 * Dr. James Boutilier, Maritime Forces Pacific Command
 "Asian Tectonics and the New Naval Environment"

10:45 Coffee & Refreshment Break

11:00 Panel 2:  Canadian Maritime Security Issues: Post September 11th
 Chair: Cmd Peter Haydon

 * Capt (N) Peter Avis, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
 "The Culture of Prevention in Canadian Maritime Security"

 * Iain Grant, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
 "The New Maritime Security: Conceptualizing a Post-9/11 Response Posture for  
Canada"

12:15 Lunch:   To Be Served in the Rozsa Office (For Panelists Only)

13:15 Panel 2: Canadian Maritime Sovereignty & Power Projection Abroad
 Chair: Dr. Robert Huebert

 * Lt. Cmd Richard Moller, Royal Military College
 "Diminished Defence: Canadian Littoral Doctrine From 1987 to Present"

 * Ailsa Jones, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
 "The Role of Maritime Capabilities in Overseas Peacekeeping Operations"

14: 30 Coffee & Refreshments

14:45 Panel 3: Maritime Security Issues Abroad
 Chair: Dr. James Boutilier

 * Donald Grant Karn, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
 "China's Naval Policy:  Rationale and Consequences for Regional Maritime  Security"

 * Dr. Andrew Andersen, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
 "Russian Far East: Maritime Security Challenges"

 * Karsten von Hoesslin, Centre for Military & Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
 "Disney's Forgotten Sequel: The Pirates of South East Asia"
 or
 "Multilateralism & the South China Sea Disputes"

16:15 Closing Remarks
 Karsten von Hoesslin, Centre for Military & Strategic Studies, University of Calgary

16:45 Maritime Security Working Group Annual Meeting, Centre for Military
               & Strategic Studies Conference Room             (refreshments will be served)
 Chair: Dr. Robert Huebert

18:30 Cocktails, Best Western Village Park Inn Banquet Room

19:30 Dinner, Best Western Village Park Inn Banquet Room

About the Speakers:

Dr. Andrew Andersen

Andrew Andersen was born in the USSR and grew up in Siberia and Latvia. He received his Master’s degree from Moscow State University in 1980 where he later taught. His Master’s thesis covered the influence of the World Wars on 20th Century American literature. In 1984 he obtained his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. Andersen’s Ph.D. thesis analyzed the evolution and transformation of American public opinion and mass-media coverage regarding the US role in the Vietnam War (1962-75).

At the beginning of Perestroyka, Andersen left the USSR and settled in Germany where he coordinated a number of Eastern European seminars, courses and projects organized by Wirtschaftsakatdemie in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein).

In 1994 Andrew Andersen immigrated to Canada. Upon landing in Toronto (Ontario) he worked as a TV reporter and show co-host at Mix-TV Broadcasting Company. In 1996 he moved with his family to British Columbia. Between 1996 and 2003 Andrew Andersen taught various Political Science courses at the University of Victoria. In 2003 he was granted a position of research fellowship with the Centre of Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.

Andrew Andersen has written a number of books and articles for national and international professional magazines on ethnic, territorial and ideological conflicts, as well as on other international security-related issues.

Captain (N) Peter Avis

Captain(N) Peter Avis joined the Atlantic Fleet in 1980 upon completion of a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English at the Royal Military College in his hometown of Kingston, Ontario. He married his wife, Susan, in the same year.

In 1986, he was posted to the yearlong Combat Control Officer Course in Halifax, N.S. Once trained as a Combat Officer, he returned to HMCS ATHABASKAN, the MARLANT Flagship, for a two-year stint as Head of the Combat Department.

In 1989, he served as the Policy Section Head in the Directorate of Personnel Careers Administration for Officers at the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario during the period of adjustment following the passage of the Canadian Bill of Human Rights.

In 1991, he was favoured with a wonderful Staff College posting to Paris, France at the Ecole Militaire. The exposure to the cultures and professional methods of officers from fifty-five nations, most of whom were francophone and non-NATO, was truly a high-point in his military career.

After Staff College, he returned to the National Defence Headquarters to serve in the Joint Staff in Naval Plans for four months and then was selected to serve as the Staff Officer to the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

In 1996, he returned to sea as Executive Officer of NCSM VILLE DE QUEBEC, the East Coast’s only francophone, mixed gender ship. Following his excellent cultural experience, he was appointed as Executive Officer of the Sea Training Unit in Halifax. He was promoted to Commander on completion of the Sea Training appointment.

As a commander, he served once again in National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa as the Current Operations Section Head for the Chief of the Maritime Staff. He assumed the position Commanding Officer of HMCS FREDERICTON in May 1999. Over a two-year period of command, he took part in two SNFL deployments and several major NATO exercises.

Two years ago, Captain(N) Avis took over the position of Director Maritime Policy, Operations and Readiness for the Chief of the Maritime Staff in the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.  His primary jobs were the sustainment of the Canadian Task Group in the Arabian Gulf for the War Against Terrorism and the formation of maritime policy in the areas of Maritime Surveillance and Interagency Cooperation concerning Maritime Domestic Security in Canada.

Capt(N) Avis is currently attending the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in their Masters program in International Affairs and Security-related topics.

Captain(N) Avis keeps his home in Ottawa with Susan and his two children, Jennifer and Matthew

Dr. Jim Boutilier

Dr. Boutilier is the Special Advisor (Policy) at the Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt. He received a B.A. from Dalhousie University (1960), MA from McMaster University (1962), and Ph.D. from the University of London (1969). Dr. Boutilier taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, from 1969 to 1971 before taking up a teaching appointment at the Department of History and Political Economy at Royal Roads Military College. Subsequently he was the Head of the Department and Dean of Arts at Royal Roads Military College. He took his current appointment in July 1996.

Dr. Boutilier's particular area of interest is Asia Pacific security and he lectures nationally and internationally on that and related issues.

Iain Grant

Iain Grant is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Originally from Guelph, Ontario, he completed a BA at the University of Waterloo and an MA at the University of Guelph before spending three years as Coordinator of International Projects at Athabasca University. Relocating to the maritimes, he enrolled in the one-year Master of Marine Management program at Dalhousie University in 2002, starting his doctoral studies the following year. His research interests include Maritime Security, Oceans Policy, and International Environmental Regimes. He currently lives in Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia, with his wife Carla and two young children, aged 18 months and 3 years.

Commander Peter Haydon (ret)

Peter Haydon is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, specializing in naval and maritime security issues and Canadian defence policy. He has taught courses on maritime strategy and civil-military relations for the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie and has been an Adjunct Professor with the War Studies Department of the Royal Military College of Canada teaching courses on maritime strategy, war in the post-modern world, and strategy and technology as part of their extension program in Halifax.

His current research interests include: the roles of naval forces in the post-Cold War period and their function in diplomacy and international crisis management; emerging concepts of sea power and maritime strategy; Canadian defence and naval policy during the Cold War period; and civil-military relations in Canada. In addition, he writes and lectures on Canadian naval policy and operations during the early Cold War period(1945-1964). These include his book, The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Canadian Involvement Reconsidered, (published in September 1993); a monograph Sea Power and Maritime Strategy in the 21st Century: A "Medium" Power Perspective (published in 2000); several papers and other monographs on various aspects of the evolution of Canadian naval policy during the Cold War; research, commentaries, and papers on Canadian submarine and shipbuilding programs; and collaborative research with Dr. Dan Middlemiss, also of Dalhousie University, examining the development of Canadian defence policy during the Trudeau era (1968-84) especially the impact of the 1975 Defence Structure Review on naval programs. He is also working on a manuscript examining the controversial course of naval policy during the
tenure of Mr. Paul Hellyer as Minister of National Defence (1963-68).

He has testified before Senate and Parliamentary Committees on national security and defence policy and has been part of several Ministerial and other high-level consultations on Canadian defence policy. He has spoken at naval and maritime security conferences in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Japan, and Malaysia as well as participating in various NATO and UN conferences and workshops. From August 1996 to July 2002 he was the editor of Maritime Affairs, a quarterly journal covering all aspects of Canada's maritime dimension. In his spare time he plays golf.

Karsten von Hoesslin

Karsten specializes in maritime security issues.  His research interests include Canadian maritime foreign policy in the Asia Pacific, surveillance and monitoring, Asia Pacific sea piracy and shipping, Chinese naval strategies, and maritime regime and confidence building theory.  Karsten's thesis is using regime theory as a means of conflict resolution to the South China Sea territorial disputes in light of hydrocarbon exploration.  His research hopes to boost maritime stability and prevent conflict in the region.

Karsten has served on the executive board of the Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security (CANCAPS), and has worked with the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, (CAPI).  Karsten is a researcher for the Maritime Security Working Group (CANCAPS) and is sitting in on the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific's (CSCAP) Maritime Cooperative Security Working Group.  He also sits on the executive of the Society for Military & Strategic Studies.   Karsten is the founder of Intelligence Analysis (IA), a non-profit group that promotes student scholarship, consults corporately, and shadow advises.  He is also presently engaged in policy recommendations primarily on the Track II level with regards to Canada and the International Criminal Court. 

Karsten's hobbies include volcanology, glaciology, wreck diving, and backcountry skiing.    

Dr. Robert Huebert

Dr. Rob Huebert is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he completed his undergraduate studiers at he University of Manitoba in 1982.    He went on to Carleton University where he completed his MA in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in 1984 and then on to Dalhousie University for his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1994.  His thesis was Steel, Ice and Decision-Making: The Voyage of the Polar Sea and its Aftermath. The Making of Canadian Northern Foreign Policy.

Dr. Huebert is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the editor of the Centre’s E-Journal Journal of Military and Strategic Studies. Dr. Huebert has also taught at Memorial University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Manitoba. His areas of research interests include: international relations, strategic studies, the Law of the Sea, maritime affairs, Canadian foreign and defence policy, and circumpolar relations.

Some of his publications are: "Polar vision or Tunnel Vision: the Making of Canadian Arctic Waters Policy" in Marine Policy,  "Canada and the Law of the Sea"; “Canadian Arctic Security”; and “Canadian Arctic Security Issues” in International Journal; and “New Directions in Circumpolar Cooperation: Canada, The Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy, and the Arctic Council” in Canadian Foreign Policy.

Ailsa Jones

Ailsa Jones is an MA Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Originally from Bradford, England, Ailsa holds a BA Honours degree in European Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Manchester, England. Her current research interests include international relations, conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding.

Donald Grant Karn

Grant Karn is currently a Masters student in the Political Science Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, working primarily in the International Relations field.  Born in Rodney, Ontario, Grant moved to Kingston to attend Queen's University where he earned an Honours B.A. in Political Studies and History.  As a visiting student from Queen's, he was also able to spend a semester at the Royal Military College of Canada to continue his study of Canadian foreign, defence, and security policies.  Grant's research interests include Canadian and American foreign, defence, and security policies; peacekeeping and international conflict resolution; and regional security in South Asia.

Christine Leppard

Christine Leppard is currently pursuing her Bachelors Degree in InternationalRelations and History at the University of Calgary.  Christine is the President of the Society for Military and Strategic Studies and she will be rapporteuring for the Maritime Symposium

Lieutenant Commander Richard Moller

Lieutenant Commander Richard Moller moved to Kingston, Ontario in 1985 to study Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University, and joined HMCS CATARAQUI, Kingston’s Naval Reserve Unit, in December of that year. In 1989 he was awarded his Upperdeck Watchkeeping Certificate, his Tender Command Qualification, and promoted to Lieutenant (N). After leaving his engineering studies, LCdr Moller pursued a diploma in fashion design at St. Lawrence College, Kingston; graduating with distinction in 1992, he was also honoured as the College Valedictorian.

Upon graduating, he opened /Fashions by P.R. Molle/. While running his company, LCdr Moller continued to serve at HMCS CATARAQUI filling a variety of positions including Head of Department for the Deck, Training, Operations, and Support Services Departments. At sea he has served in a number of ships as Deck, Navigating, and Executive Officer. He has participated in and organized numerous coastal defence, harbour defence, and port security exercises, including several with the US Navy. He completed the Coastal Operations Course in September 1999, and the Joint Reserve Command and Staff Course in July 2000. After completing two years as HMCS CATARAQUI’s Executive Officer, he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander in January 2001. LCdr Moller is currently studying to complete a BA (Concentration in Psychology) at RMC, and simultaneously serves as HMCS CATARAQUI's Operations Officer and as the Director of RMC's Conference Planning and Facilities Management unit. He was the third place (of six) candidate for Mayor of the City of Kingston in the November 2003 municipal elections.

In 1994 his first paper, "Leadership Through Customer Service", was published in /The Maritime Warfare Bulletin/ after being presented at the /Second Naval Historic Symposium/. This was followed by, "The Dangers of Doctrine", /Maritime Security Working Papers, Number 5/, December 1996 (republished in /Baltic Defence Review 5/), "Bureaucracy Versus Ethics", /Proceedings to the Conference on Defence Ethics/, October 1997, “Principles of Peacetime Readiness” presented at the /Canadian Defence Association Institute Graduate Student Symposium/ in October 2003 and published in /Baltic Defence Review 10/, January 2004. This year he presented “Sovereignty Suicide” at the /Sixth Annual Society for Military and Strategic Studies Conference.

Captain (N) Kelly E. Williams

Captain (N) Williams was born in the city of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. He graduated from the Canadian Forces Officer Candidate School in August 1976.  Since joining the navy, he has served in three ships on the Atlantic Coast (HMCS OTTAWA, HMCS PRESERVER, and HMCS ATHABASKAN) and in both HMCS SASKATCHEWAN and HMCS ALGONQUIN on the Pacific Coast.  He was appointed to command of HMCS WINNIPEG in January 2001 and led the ship through two extended Persian Gulf deployments.  Other sea-going positions have included serving as the Operations Officer, Fourth Destroyer Squadron and Executive Officer, Sea Training Pacific. 

Captain (N) Williams has completed four staff tours in National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ) Ottawa.  In 1989, he was assigned to NDHQ as the Operational Requirements Manager for the NATO Frigate Replacement Project (NFR 90).  Upon termination of the project he was appointed to the staff of Chief of Maritime Operations and Doctrine as the Fleet Operations and Readiness Officer.  In May 91, he was selected for exchange duties with the United States Navy and served on the Staff of Commander, U.S. Second Fleet (NATO's Strike Fleet Atlantic), as the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Officer.  In 1993 he returned to NDHQ to the Directorate of Naval Requirements as the Navy's Command, Control Communications and Information (C3I) and Space Surveillance Requirements Officer.  In 1998, Captain Williams was assigned as a Section Head to the Directorate of Maritime Strategy where he was responsible for Future Maritime Force Development.
He was promoted to Captain (N) in 2003 and appointed to CMS staff in NDHQ as the Director of Maritime Strategy.
A graduate of the Canadian Forces Staff School, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College in Toronto, Captain (N) Williams, has completed a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at Royal Roads University in Victoria.   He was awarded the Nortel Networks Leadership award during his MBA studies, an award voted by his peers, as the individual who emerged as the "natural leader of the class and who contributed the most to the learning of others".

About the Centre for Military & Strategic Studies:

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