1. Walter Dorn was born on July 11,1961 and is a Canadian military historian and defence specialist.
16 Facts About Walter Dorn
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Walter Dorn serves as chair of the Department of Security and International Affairs at CFC and previously was chair of the Master of Defence Studies programme at RMC.
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Walter Dorn has served on the Board of Canadian Pugwash since 1995.
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Walter Dorn completed his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Toronto and now applies this scientific background toward the study of peace and conflict issues.
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Walter Dorn has pursued this work at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Nova Scotia, where he developed and taught courses on technology for peace operations, as well as at Cornell University, where he was a senior research fellow with the Institute for African Development.
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Walter Dorn's report was welcomed by the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping, composed of 124 member states who contribute to peacekeeping.
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Walter Dorn's 2011 book Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations served as an impetus for the UN's creation of a Panel of Experts on Technology and Innovation in UN Peacekeeping, of which he was a member.
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Walter Dorn assisted with the negotiation, ratification, and implementation of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention as the CWC Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Global Action.
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Walter Dorn addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 1988 at the Second UN Special Session on Disarmament.
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Walter Dorn has experience in United Nations field missions such as the United Nations Mission in East Timor and the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNDP projects in Ethiopia, and as a Training Adviser with the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
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Walter Dorn has taught since 2000 at the Royal Military College of Canada and at the Canadian Forces College in both official languages using his learner-centric teaching philosophy.
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At CFC, Walter Dorn has been engaged from his arrival in 2003 in the development of curriculum.
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Walter Dorn drafted Learning Outcome Guides, including guidance for lectures and seminars, and gave feedback to planners on their drafts.
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Dr Walter Dorn joined the World Federalist Movement in the mid-1980s and has been President of the World Federalist Movement of Canada since 2016.
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Walter Dorn is responsible for chairing the WFM-Canada's annual meetings and introduced a new code of conduct.
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Walter Dorn participates regularly in WFM-Canada's cosponsored meetings on Canadian peacekeeping.