Events
Upcoming Events
September 09, 2010 - 7:00PM
A panel discussion on the preservation of human rights during war and on Canada's position on these issues as it relates to the Afghanistan conflict. Segments from the film "Torturing Democracy" will be shown, an award-winning documentary about how and why the U.S. response to 9/11 came to include the wholesale embrace of torture, in spite of its illegality, inhumanity and essential uselessness as an information-acquiring strategy.
With special guests:
Thomas Blanton, James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang and Andrew S. Thompson
CIGI
September 23, 2010 - 7:00PM
Tickets are $10/per person and are available at the door.
Open to the Public.
A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets during a six year investigation of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past. Nominated for a 2009 Emmy.
Princess Twin Cinemas
October 13, 2010 - 7:00PM
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous crisis of the nuclear age. On the anniversary of the crisis, four distinguished scholars will take the stage at CIGI who have vast experience working with and on McNamara. They will address these questions: why did the crisis occur? What caused it to spin out of control? How close did the crisis come to nuclear war? What would likely have happened if nuclear weapons had been used by either side in or around Cuba? And what lessons do Robert McNamara’s experience of the crisis—both in October 1962 and in his subsequent historical research—offer to leaders and citizens alike who wish to reduce the risk of nuclear war in the 21st century so that nothing as dangerous as the missile crisis another never happens again?
CIGI