by Metta Spencer (interviewer)
published in Peace Magazine, October-December, 2005

METTA SPENCER: It was your idea to create a department of peace within the Canadian government. Tell me about it.

BILL BHANEJA: In meetings of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC), I’ve been representing Science for Peace in Ottawa. When we discussed the organizing of federal peace programs, it was obvious that a cause of problems being discussed was lack of a clear peace mandate — a coherent mission.

SPENCER: Well, great. And you’re not the only person with such ideas. In the US there’s a similar movement underway. (more…)