Taylor Owen is a Doctoral Candidate and Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford, lecturer at the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and Research Fellow at the Center for Global Governance at the LSE. He was a Fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, was an Action Canada Fellow, has an MA from the University of British Columbia, and has worked as a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the International Development Research Center. His research focuses on the definition, measurement and policy operationalization of human security and he writes widely on the causes and consequences of conflict, peacebuilding, and EU, Canadian and US foreign policy. This site is a means of sharing daily writings on international issues, foreign policy and politics, as well as to host published writings and media.