Western Academy Visiting Fellow
Sabine Nölke has had over 30 years of experience as a leading voice in matters of international peace and security, armed conflict, non-proliferation and disarmament, human rights, terrorism, and international and transnational crime.
She has provided legal and policy advice to the Government of Canada on issues ranging from international humanitarian law, to reparations, to genocide, and the threat and use of weapons of mass destruction, including serving as co-counsel for Canada before the International Court of Justice, on Legality of the Use of Force (Serbia v. Canada et al.). She has served as Director of the United Nations, Human Rights, and Economic Law division (2007) and as Canada’s Ambassador to the Netherlands (2015-2019).
What does it mean for a country to be sovereign? In this episode of TVO Today's Unravelled, Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke explains the concept of sovereignty.
How are lies threatening democracy? This article by Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke outlines how her own family in Germany was irrevocably shaped, and ultimately destroyed, by fascism and its lies, its wars, its ideology of racial supremacy, and its land grabs.
How do Donald Trump's recent threats compare to rhetoric deployed by Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler? In this interview for the Sovereign Canada podcast, Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke speaks about the escalating Trump tariff trade war and her recently published article in The Conversation.
How can we situate Donald Trump’s threats of Canadian annexation in the language of international law and state-to-state relations? An article by Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke on the historical context for Trump’s rhetoric and the necessary 21st-century vocabulary with which to respond and shape the public discourse.
