Team Member

Dr. Peter Kikkert is an Associate Professor in the Public Policy and Governance program at St. Francis Xavier University. His current research program focuses on how to strengthen search and rescue, disaster and emergency management capabilities, and community disaster resilience in rural, remote, and Northern communities. He is the academic lead for the Kitikmeot SAR Project, the Nunavut SAR Project, and the Nunavik Roundtable on SAR, and is a member of the Maximum Expected Time to Rescue research team. He has had the privilege to learn from and work with community responders and Elders on the land, ice, and waters of the Canadian North and Alaska.

An Arctic mass rescue is daunting, but Canada is preparing, by Peter Kikkert, Calgary Herald, 4 July 2023

Canadian Inuit and North American Defence Modernization: Background Considerations, by P. Whitney Lackenbauer with Peter Kikkert, June 2023.

The State of Search and Rescue in Nunavik: A Report for the Kativik Civil Security Department, by Peter Kikkert and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, May 2023.

Inuit Nunangat needs a community public safety officer program, by Calvin Avigak Pedersen, Peter Kikkert, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Policy Options, 27 June 2022

The CAF and Domestic Operations: NAADSN Members’ Opening Comments to the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence, by Wilfrid Greaves and Peter Kikkert, 9 May 2022

Peter Kikkert, Emergency management must be central to climate change response in the North, The Hill Times, 8 December 2021.