Make Sense Not War: Lloyd Axworthy Receives Thakore Visiting Scholar Award

Abstract

The 2001 recipient of the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award was Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, Canada’s foreign minister from 1996 to 2000. What follows is an excerpt from an article published in The Globe and Mail (September 17, 2001, A17). In it, Dr. Axworthy expressed many of the same thoughts at the address he gave at SFU on October 2, 2001 and in the seminar to which he spoke on October 3. It should be noted that this was written, and his addresses
given, before the bombing of Afghanistan started on October 7—an initiative taken without, in the view of many, the “bona fide international mandate and ... clear culpable target” which he posited as a requirement for Canada
to join in any military action there.