The 2022 Halifax International Security Forum is committed to keeping you healthy and safe.

– Masks are encouraged but optional.

– Please make your best effort to social distance.

– Masks are available throughout the hotel.

– Off-site testing is available throughout the weekend.

– Hand sanitizer is available throughout the hotel.

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Halifax International Security Forum invites subject experts with significant practical experience to volunteer their time throughout the summer months to discuss and debate ideas to be addressed head-on at Halifax in November. The guidance provided by the Agenda Working Group ensures that Halifax International Security Forum plays its part in shaping the coming year’s global security agenda.

Halifax International Security Forum is proud that the agenda presented to its participants each year is acutely relevant and reflects conversations that are happening in capitals around the world. In the cases where these issues are not yet top-of-mind for decision makers, Halifax International Security Forum is pleased to create those conversations that will gain attention and inspire international action.

Michael Auslin
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

 Alyssa Ayres
George Washington University

Ian Brodie
University of Calgary 

Rosa Brooks
Georgetown University Law Center

Shari Bryan
Aegean Strategies

Leslie Campbell
National Democratic Institute

Dean Fealk
DLA Piper 

John Glenn
National Endowment for Democracy

Jerrold Green
Pacific Council on International Policy

Rachel Kleinfeld
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

François Lafond
French Expert, MDULS, Serbia

Dixon Osburn
Harvard Kennedy School

Roland Paris
University of Ottawa

Luis Rubio
Mexico-Evalua

Chris Sabatini
Chatham House

Paul Salem
Middle East Institute

Randy Scheunemann
HFX

Janice Stein
The Munk School, University of Toronto

Constanze Stelzenmüller
The Brookings Institution

Peter Van Praagh
HFX

Daniel Twining
International Republican Institute

Kurt Volker
BGR Group

Bruce Weinrod
Georgetown University

Download 2022 Agenda Working Group as PDF

Plenary Sessions

• And So, Where is the Security?
• Cold Weather, High Prices, Long War:
• Finding Our Winter Resilience
• Tomorrow’s Energy Needed Now
• The Disinformation Nations: Kidnapping Our Citizens,
• Corrupting Our Officials, Stealing Our Stuff
• Food Security: May We Have Some More?
• Mind the Gap: Keeping Our Tech Superiority
• H2O: Heatwave 2 Overflow
• The Future of Democracy? Democracy.

Informal Sessions

• Afghanistan: Always
• Arctic Allies Align
• Canada’s Quiet Tech Triumphs
• Coping with Climate: Africa Enlightens
• Cyber Specific Strategies:
• Lessons from Ukraine’s Invisible Heroes
• Deadly Disease: Deal With It
• Decoupling: Russia, Yes. China, Next.
• Deep Sea Nodules, Clean Fusion, Dilithium Crystals:
• Finding Resources for Winning the Future
• Expanding Space
• Female Freedom Fighters: Meeting Morality in Iran
• Finding Meaning in Europe
• Here Comes the Son: the Philippines and Other
• Adventures in Southeast Asian Democracy
• Israel and its Arab Allies Making a Modern Middle East
• New NATO: Never Again Treaty Organization
• The Next Quad: Japan + Aukus (Jaukus)
• Nuclear War: 60 Years On, Preventing (While
• Preparing For) the UnimaginableOur Extremists,
• Our Existential Enemies
• Russia’s Future: Russia’s Past
• Securing the Sovereignty of Smaller States
• Still America
• Syria: Can You See Me Now?
• Taming Terrorists in the Sahel
• Tanks or Tech? The 21st Century Battlefield
• Tech Diplomacy: Statecraft or Stagecraft
• Tik Tok, Tick Tock: Treasuring Taiwan’s Time
• Truss Me, I’m English
• Turning Sanctions Into Strategy
• UAV: Ukraine’s Absolute Victory
• UN: The Best the World Has Done. So Far . . .
• Wartime Ready: Rearming Our Allied Economies
• Western Hemisphere, Meet the World
• Wonder Weapon: Ukraine’s Women
• Whole, Free and at Peace: Ukraine After the War.

Download 2022 Topical Agenda as PDF