Earl Turcotte, a veteran Canadian diplomat and arms control specialist, has been appointed the new Chair of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (CNANW), succeeding Jonathan Down, and interim Chair John Guilfoyle. Turcotte’s appointment follows the unanimous decision of the network steering committee.
Earl, a returning Chair of the network, served as Director and Senior Coordinator for Mine Action with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, and also United Nations Development Program Chief Technical Advisor to the Government of Lao in the Unexploded Ordnance Sector.
In 2014, he became an advocate for nuclear disarmament and conventional arms control, working with the CNANW and the Group of 78. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Carleton University and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa. A resident of the Ottawa area, he has also been a television host, producer and writer.
Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a cross-Canada organization of groups devoted to the abolition of nuclear weapons, and is composed of:
- Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
- Canadian Federation of University Women
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
- Canadian Peace Research Association
- Canadian Pugwash Group
- Friends for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
- Group of 78
- Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada
- Project Ploughshares
- Project Save the World (publishers of Peace Magazine)
- Religions for Peace Canada
- Rideau Institute
- Science for Peace
- United Nations Association in Canada / Association canadienne pour les Nations Unies
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Canada section)
- World Federalist Movement – Canada / Mouvement Federaliste Mondial – Canada
Mr. Turcotte can be contacted at: network.cnanw[at]gmail.com