Cooperation with Malaysian defence journal
CPDS has been collaborating with the Asian Journal of Defence and Diplomacy, a journal based in Kuala Lmpur, on their Asian Military Balance issue. The tasks for CPDS included updating the South Asia Order of Battle (ORBAT), and contributing several articles on Asian Pacific security issues, including human security, China’s role in regional cooperation and future of Asian multilateral institutions.

New Member of International Advisory Board
We welcome two distinguished scholars to our International Advisory Board.

Professor Mohammed Ayoob, Distinguished Professor of International Relations, James Madison College,. Michigan State University, to our International Advisory Board. Ayoob is known for his seminal work in conceptualising on Third World security issues. He is also a noted specialist on Indian and South Asian security issues. Prof’s Ayoob’s essays will be a valuable addition to our Asia Pacific Security Analysis section.

Major General (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee is the Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies Colombo, one of South Asia’s leading think-tanks on defence and security issues. General Banerjee

A former officer in the Indian Army, he was a Senior Fellow and later from 1992-96 Deputy Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He was the founder and Co-Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi in 1996.

New Fellows of CPDS
CPDS welcomes Tom Quiggin a consultant on international security affairs based in Ottawa to the CPDS research panel. Tom has previously worked with the Privy Council of Canada the International War Crimes Tribunal and the Department of National Defence. He has taken part in several arms control verification missions under the Vienna Document and the Conventional Forces in Europe verification missions under the Vienna Document and the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty as well as being serving a UN peacekeeping tour and has been an election supervisor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Tom will be the Information Coordinator Electronic Data Sources for CPDS.

New Projects on Human Security
Human Security continues to be the major area of focus of CPDS. The Centre is developing two new projects. The first one deals with Human Security and Small Arms in South and Southeast Asia; the second is concerned with Human Security and Regional Cooperation in South Asia. Details of the projects will be made available through the CPDS website.

CPDS is also launching new data sources on Human Security, including a bimonthly bulletin entitled South Asia Human Security Watch, as well as two Research Files: (1) Human Security, Canadian Perspectives, and (2) Small Arms Research Files. These can be found in the Global Human Security Section.