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Munk School and Gordon Foundation to release global poll on Arctic security

January 17, 2011

TORONTO, ON – The Cana­da Cen­tre for Glob­al Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and the Wal­ter and Dun­can Gor­don Foun­da­tion will be releas­ing their pub­lic opin­ion research on Arc­tic secu­ri­ty at the first annu­al Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence on Jan­u­ary 25.

The first of its kind pub­lic opin­ion research includes polling on per­cep­tions of Arc­tic secu­ri­ty in Cana­da (Ter­ri­to­ries and Provinces), the Unit­ed States, Rus­sia, Nor­way, Fin­land, Swe­den, Ice­land and Den­mark.  The polling is sup­ple­ment­ed with results from focus groups in Nunavut. The pub­lic opin­ion research was con­duct­ed by Ekos Research.

In addi­tion to releas­ing the pub­lic opin­ion research, the Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence will fea­ture speak­ers and pan­els pro­vid­ing expert, glob­al per­spec­tives on Arc­tic secu­ri­ty includ­ing: Tony Penikett, For­mer Pre­mier of Yukon, Drue Pearce, for­mer Pres­i­dent of the Alas­ka State Sen­ate and Madeleine Red­fern, May­or of Iqaluit.

When: Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 25, 2011

Time: 9:40 am – 12:00 pm (Pub­lic opin­ion research to be pre­sent­ed at 9:50 am)

Where: Vivian and David Camp­bell Con­fer­ence Facil­i­ty
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
1 Devon­shire Place, Toron­to
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to

To reg­is­ter for this event please click here
Please note that seat­ing for this event is lim­it­ed and reg­is­tra­tion is manda­to­ry
Mem­bers of the media are asked to iden­ti­fy them­selves when sign­ing in at the event.
For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Neil Desai
Direc­tor, Pro­grams and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
416.946.5118
N.Desai@utoronto.ca

Munk School and Gor­don Foun­da­tion to Release Glob­al Poll on Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty

Toron­to, Jan. 17 – The Cana­da Cen­tre for Glob­al Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and the Wal­ter and Dun­can Gor­don Foun­da­tion will be releas­ing their pub­lic opin­ion research on Arc­tic secu­ri­ty at the first annu­al Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence on Jan­u­ary 25.

The first of its kind pub­lic opin­ion research includes polling on per­cep­tions of Arc­tic secu­ri­ty in Cana­da (Ter­ri­to­ries and Provinces), the Unit­ed States, Rus­sia, Nor­way, Fin­land, Swe­den, Ice­land and Den­mark.  The polling is sup­ple­ment­ed with results from focus groups in Nunavut. The pub­lic opin­ion research was con­duct­ed by Ekos Research.

In addi­tion to releas­ing the pub­lic opin­ion research, the Arc­tic Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence will fea­ture speak­ers and pan­els pro­vid­ing expert, glob­al per­spec­tives on Arc­tic secu­ri­ty includ­ing: Tony Penikett, For­mer Pre­mier of Yukon, Drue Pearce, for­mer Pres­i­dent of the Alas­ka State Sen­ate and Madeleine Red­fern, May­or of Iqaluit.

When: Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 25, 2011

Time: 9:40 am – 12:00 pm (Pub­lic opin­ion research to be pre­sent­ed at 9:50 am)

Where: Vivian and David Camp­bell Con­fer­ence Facil­i­ty

Munk School of Glob­al Affairs

1 Devon­shire Place, Toron­to

Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to

To reg­is­ter for this event please click here

Please note that seat­ing for this event is lim­it­ed and reg­is­tra­tion is manda­to­ry

Mem­bers of the media are asked to iden­ti­fy them­selves when sign­ing in at the event.

For more infor­ma­tion please con­tact:

Neil Desai –Direc­tor, Pro­grams and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Munk School of Glob­al Affairs

416.946.5118

N.Desai@utoronto.ca