Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé has a Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University. Her research focuses on peace operations and security issues related to fragile states. Her doctoral dissertation strived to understand the conditions under which peace operations succeeded or failed. She studied the cases of Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Her fieldwork was completed in West Africa, Ethiopia (Ogaden region) and South Africa, where she interviewed military commanders, rebel leaders, refugees and experts. Her most recent publications include “Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions”, (Routledge, 2016). Her recent research projects focus on peacekeeping intelligence. She is an associate faculty member of the Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS), the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM), the Réseau des Opérations de la paix (ROP) and the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (ICAMES).

Emerging Scholar Rachel Babins, a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at a major Canadian bank, who presented her paper at the last Defence and Security Foresight Group Conference.

Rachel Babins is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at a major Canadian bank. In 2019, she received her MA at the University of Toronto in European and Russian Studies. Her masters research focused on Russian threats to Canadian critical infrastructure in the energy sector. She also specialized in disinformation research by conducting a year-long project that analyzed Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaigns targeting NATO during Operation Enhanced Forward Presence. Rachel has held positions at Natural Resources Canada, where she focused on nuclear security and at NATO with the Allied Joint Force Command in Brunssum.