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WelcomeAs Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 46, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations all over the world. In the first half of 2009 alone, she addressed audiences in Kiev, Cordoba, Toronto, Prague, Brussels, Vancouver, London, Beijing, and Washington, DC among others. more International Centre for the Study of RadicalisationFormer Prime Minister Campbell is proud to be one of the founding Trustees of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which recently held the ICSR Peace and Security Summit at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City June 30th and July 1st. The most important event of its kind in 2010, the Summit brought together 400 leading policymakers, diplomats, senior officials and experts from across the globe, encouraging them to share their experiences and approaches in a number of working groups and high-level panels such as Nine Years After 9/11: Are We Safer?. The Summit explored the greatest security challenges of our time, ranging from domestic radicalization and violent extremism to ongoing conflicts and the struggle for peace in places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and the Middle East. Learn more about ICSR from their new video:
CAMPBELL LAUNCHES BLOG: BiteSizeChunksAnd old African proverb says: “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” Many of today’s challenges – Climate Change, Poverty, Hunger, Illiteracy, Oppression of Women – seem beyond the ability of any single person to influence. I’ve created a new blog to provide food for thought on the day’s most important issues, and to invite you to share suggestions of concrete things that we as individuals can do to make a difference in some of the big issues of our time.
Sharing stories and ideas is the way that ordinary people can have an impact on the big issues. The goal of exchanging these ideas is to foster a feeling of empowerment that will encourage us to act. When I helped to create the Club of Madrid – made up of 72 members who have been either President or Prime Minister of their countries, I explained that this group did not assume that we alone could change the world. We know better than anyone what it means to be “former” leaders. But we also know that we can leverage our experience and access to promote democratic values. To explain the role we play, I coined the term, “a tile in the mosaic of progress,” which is what the ideas of this blog shall be as well. Please join me in building a new mosaic of positive change, one bite size chunk at a time. Sincerely,
Kim Campbell
POST-COPENHAGEN: MORE WORK AHEADClimate change has come to be recognized globally as one of the most serious challenges facing our planet. 2009 was a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change and culminated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, December 7-19. Now that the negotiations have concluded with what might be the first steps to a multilateral agreement, there is more work ahead. Read Kim Campbell's Op-Ed at the Climate Change Leadership Forum to learn more.
As a member of the Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA), a task force of world leaders committed to addressing climate change through international negotiations, Former Prime Minister Campbell is engaged in this issue and offers insight into the actions that will be necessary in order to save cultures, lifestyles and lives.
As a Former Minister of Defence, Ms. Campbell is a voice of authority on security risks posed by the effects of climate change as well as the implications of what she calls "the trifecta of disadvantage" where countries most at risk from global warming are also among the world's poorest economies and weakest states. more
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