Ernie RegehrErnie Regehr, O.C. is co-founder of Project Ploughshares, one of Canada's leading peace and security NGOs. Ernie has served as an NGO representative and expert advisor on numerous Government of Canada delegations to multilateral disarmament forums, icluding Review Conferences of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and UN Conferences on Small Arms. In 1990-1991 he was Canada's representative on the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Arms Transfer Transparency that led to the creation in 1992 of the UN Conventional Arms Register, and in 2001 was an advisor to the Government of Kenya in the development of a regional arms control agreement on small arms known as the Nairobi Declaration. He has traveled frequently to conflict zones, especially in East Africa, contributed to Track II diplomacy efforts related to the war in southern Sudan, and is on the Board of the Africa Peace Forum of Nairobi, Kenya. He is a former Commissioner of the World Council of Churches Commission on International Affairs, where he was active in developing the WCC's position on Responsibility to Protect as adopted at the 2006 World Assembly.
He is Senior Fellow in Arctic Security at The Simons Foundation of Vancouver, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University College, the University of Waterloo. Read More Read Less