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Dr. Walter Dorn is an Associate Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces College and teaches military officers from Canada and other nations at the Command and Staff and strategic levels. He is currently finishing a sabbatical while serving as a Visiting Professional within the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC. An “operational professor” with a wide ranging background, he has served in UN peace operations in several conflict areas and as a consultant for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations at New York Headquarters. Dr. Dorn is a scientist by training (Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Toronto), whose doctoral research was aimed at chemical sensing for arms control.
He assisted with the negotiation, ratification and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Since 1983, he has served as the UN Representative of Science for Peace, a Canadian NGO, and addressed the UN General Assembly in 1988 at the Second UN Special Session on Disarmament. In the United States, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Cornell University (Einaudi Centre for International Studies, 1998-2000), a consultant to UN Studies at Yale (1996), a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Monitoring Centre (Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, 1999) and an adviser to the Federation of American Scientist (Biological Weapons Control expert group, 1990). Dr. Dorn has edited and co-edited several books including World Order for a New Millennium: Political, Cultural and Spiritual Approaches to Building Peace, contributed numerous chapters to books and published articles in leading journals. He is in the process of writing a book tentatively titled The Emerging Global Watch: UN Monitoring for International Peace and Human Security.