Erin Hunt

Erin Hunt
Program Manager, Mines Action Canada
twitter: @erinlynnhunt
email: erin [at] minesactioncanada [dot] org
phone: +1 613 241-3777

landmines and cluster munitions | killer robots | explosive weapons in populated areas | gender

Erin Hunt is the Program Manager at Mines Action Canada. She has been working in humanitarian disarmament in various capacities since 2006 and doing public education on the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines since 2003.

Erin's areas of expertise include the humanitarian impact of landmines and cluster munitions, particularly in Syria and Yemen, as well as the Ottawa Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, ongoing diplomatic efforts to prohibit autonomous weapons systems (killer robots) and nuclear weapons. She can speak about Canadian policies on disarmament issues more broadly.

Erin has a master’s degree in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University..

Recent Publications:

"Youth Campaigners Rock the RevCon," Disarmament Dialogue blog, December 15, 2020.
"Digital Diplomacy Dos and Don'ts: A New Guide," Disarmament Dialogue blog, May 26, 2020.
"New research project: How many women work in mine action?," Mines Action Canada, February 11, 2020.
"Bernstein and Hunt: Canada must stand up to U.S. reversal on landmines," Ottawa Citizen, February 5, 2020.
"How Canada can eliminate lethal barriers to development," The Hill Times, January 30, 2020.
"#WPSAdvice: Put Canada Back in Humanitarian Disarmament," Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada, October 10, 2019.
“Autonomous Weapons, Ethical AI, and Feminist Foreign Policy,” (No. 2), CCW Report, Reaching Critical Will, Vol. 7, No. 1-5, March 2019.
"Why 'killer robots' are neither feminist nor ethical," OpenCanada.com, Jan. 22.
"Peace Prize: Reflections on a Nobel year," OpenCanada, Oct 11, 2018.
"The Right to Dignity and Autonomous Weapon Systems" (with Piotr Dobrzynski), CCW Report, Reaching Critical Will Vol. 6, No. 3, 11 April, 2018.
"Hunt: Where's Canada's voice on banning so-called 'killer robots'?," Ottawa Citizen, March 29, 2018.
"As UN General Assembly kicks off, all eyes on Canada's disarmament stance," OpenCanada, Sept 13.