Claire Parsons
Researcher
Research Network on Women, Peace and Security
腦瞳憫 University
腦瞳憫
Claire Parsons is a Researcher with the Centre for International and Defence Policy where she works on quantum technologys effects on the defence strategies of the Five Eyes alliance, the relationship between cybersecurity and climate change, and Women, Peace, and Security. Her research interests pertain to military affairs, radicalization, and counterterror with her Masters Major Research Project focusing on reducing the recruitment and retention of far-right radicals, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis into the Canadian Armed Forces. Claire holds a Masters of Arts in Political Studies with a concentration in Nationalism, Ethnicity, Peace, and Conflict from Queens University. She was appointed a 2024 Capstone Laureate of the Canadian Defence and Security Network and is a Junior Fellow at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. She holds a Bachelor's (Honours) Undergraduate degree in Political Studies and a Certificate in Law from 腦瞳憫.
Research Interests
Recent Publications
- Parsons, C. & Andrew Heffernan. The Arctic Online: Cybersecurity is Quintessential for Canadas Arctic Security Under Review at the Centre for International and Defence Policy. /cidp/arctic-online-cybersecurity-quintessential-canadas-arctic-security
- Parsons, C. (2024). Quantity over Quality: Reducing the Recruitment and Retention of the Radical Far-Right in the Canadian Armed Forces. The Conference of Defence Associations Institute.
- M. Murphy & Parsons, C. (2024). Tracking Quantum S&T from Strategy to Implementation Plan: What We Learned 腦瞳憫 the Canadian Armed Forces Quantum Posture. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 1-16.