Acknowledgements

• Author: Craig Forcese
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Acknowledgements

Any book is built by many hands. Unlike other books on

which I have worked, this project required travel to archives,

museums, and the sites which it describes. The support of the

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada

was invaluable in making this possible. My thanks go to SSHRC and

to the anonymous reviewers who originally recommended my pro-

ject proposal. Preparing such a proposal is a major undertaking, in

which I was assisted by then-JD candidate Natalie Gajewski. Thanks

also to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law research oce, and

then-Vice Dean Research Elizabeth Sheehy, for their assistance in

that process. More generally, this project benef‌ited from the willing

and enthusiastic support of colleagues at the University of Ottawa law

school and at our partner institution, the Norman Paterson School of

International Af‌fairs, Carleton University. In both places, matters of

international law in war and peace have f‌igured prominently in our

teaching, research, and discussions. On a sadder note, I would like

to think that my dear, departed colleague Nicole LaViolette, whose

work on the laws of war was cut short by her untimely passing in 2015,

would have relished the chance to debate this book’s content.