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Dr. Colin Magee is the Senior Evaluator, and Concepts and Doctrine Developer at the Canadian Armed Forces’ Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security (DCOE-PS). Dr. Magee retired from the Canadian Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2020, with close to four decades of command, staff, concept development, and teaching experience in Canadian and international, civilian and Professional Military Educational institutions, as well as practical experience in planning, commanding and conducting operations.

As the Senior Evaluator at the DCOE-PS, Dr. Magee leads the implementation of the Vancouver Principles within the CAF including authoring the Joint Doctrine Note on Canadian Armed Forces Responses to Preventing the Unlawful Recruitment and Use of Children in Conflict, the accompanying aide memoire, and a planner’s precis to integrate the prevention of the recruitment and use of child soldiers into the CAF planning process. He is currently leading a team to develop concepts notes for WPS for both NATO’s Partnership for Peace consortium on PME and the CAF, as well as CAF roles in Human Security.

In parallel to his professional experience, he holds a PhD from the University of Guelph researching leadership in the whole of government context.  Academically, he has developed and instructed undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, operational planning and defence policy at the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of Guelph, Queen’s University and for the Australian National University.  He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Guelph teaching on the Masters in Leadership program, a Military Studies Fellow at the Australian National University a sessional instructor for RMCC teaching leadership and ethics, and a sessional instructor at Queen’s University teaching Defence Studies. 

Research Interest

• Human Security

• Leadership in Complexity

• Strategic and Operational Planning 

Recent Publications

• Canadian Armed Forces Child Protection Handbook – final review ongoing
• Canadian Defence Framework to Implement the Women Peace and Security Agenda
• Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes Concept Note on Military Roles in Implementing the Women Peace and Security Agenda

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