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

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

Erin Hunt is the Executive Director of 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 as well as the Ottawa Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the ongoing diplomatic efforts to prohibit autonomous weapons systems (killer robots), and gender and disarmament. 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.

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Recent Publications:

• ​"Lavender Haze: AI and the bombing of civilians in Gaza," Mines Action Canada, April 10, 2024.
  
• "First Committee Monitor," vol 21. no.5, Reaching Critical Will, November 4, 2023.
• "First Committee Monitor," vol 21. no.2, Reaching Critical Will, October 7, 2023.
• "To rebuild Ukraine, the world needs to help clear the land from mines" The Globe and Mail, January 30, 2023.
• "New Report: Abandoned Africa? Canada's Funding for Mine Action in Africa," Mines Action Canada, April 2022.*
• "Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security: Moving towards Humanitarian Disarmament," Peace and Security Network - Canada, September 2021.*
• "Lockdown Diplomacy: Reflections and Recommendations from a Humanitarian Disarmament Survey," June 2021.*
• “Missed Opportunities: Disarmament and Canada’s National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security” in “Reflections on Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: Gains, Gaps & Goals,” Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada, March 2021.*
• "Youth Campaigners Rock the RevCon," Disarmament Dialogue blog, December 15, 2020.
• "Stigmatizing Cluster Munitions: A Decade of Success," Arms Control Today, October 2020.
• "Ignominious Anniversary," Mines Action Canada at Ignominious Anniversary: Remembering Hiroshima and Imagining a World Without Autonomous Killer Robots, Nuclear Weapons and Blanket Surveillance, August 6, 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.

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