Freedom from fear

Protection of civilians: Our objectives in this area include strengthening legal norms, increasing international capacity and building political will to reduce the human costs of armed conflict, with particular attention to the threat posed by landmines, the plight of war-affected children and the internally displaced, the strengthening of human rights field operations, and the deployment of milit [...] Conflict prevention: Our objectives in this area include strengthening the capacity of the international community to prevent and resolve violent conflicts, and building national and local capacity to manage political differences and social tensions without resort to violence, with particular attention to the proliferation of small arms and to addressing the economic dimensions of civil wars, thro [...] Canada’s Human Security Program The Human Security Program of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade was established to address challenges to human security, in fulfilment of a commitment made by the Government of Canada in 1999. [...] In addition to the measures result of the previous outlined above, Canada supports the United Nations Security Council Counter- day’s terrorist attacks Terrorism Committee and the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of on the United States Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction to implement non-proliferation, sit stranded on the counter-terrorism and nuclear safety projects. [...] The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds (2000) and Human Security Canada’s Human Security Program supported a ground-breaking study entitled The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security by Canadian non-governmental organization Partnership Africa Canada (PAC).