Renewing the Profession of Arms: Culture Renovation for the CAF
Date
Wednesday February 15, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Online over ZoomThe CAF is facing a number of challenges and while many are related to the increasing insecurity around the world through belligerent actors, expanding threats to what constitutes security, and fiscal realities, many are also of our own making. The CAF is facing a recruitment and retention challenge. This is being driven by the fact that the CAF has been slow to evolve in its principles, values, expectations that are increasingly out of step with Canadian society. This presentation will provide a brief overview of some of the work that has been so far to realign and reinforce our principles, values, and expectations as we work to renovate the culture of the CAF to better position us to secure Canada's interests and do in a way that is also reflective of Canadian values.
Bio:
H. Christian Breede is the Senior Staff Officer 2 at the Canadian Defence Academy’s Professional Concepts and Leader Development team. In addition to this, he is a visiting professor at Simon Fraser University’s Terrorism, Risk, and Security Studies Programme and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada where he supervises research projects on security policy analysis. Christian holds a PhD in War Studies from RMC and has published on the topics of foreign and security policy with a research focus on societal cohesion, military culture, and technology. He has almost 25 years of military experience including deployments with the Canadian Army in Haiti and Afghanistan.