Dr. Kikkert is an Associate Professor in the Public Policy and Governance program and a research fellow with the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government. Dr. Kikkert has written extensively on historic and contemporary safety, security, and sovereignty issues in the polar regions. 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.
Dr. Kikkert has presented his research to Senate and House of Commons committees and often works closely with local, territorial, and federal government organizations, including the Canadian Coast Guard Arctic Region, the Canadian Armed Forces, Nunavut Emergency Management, and Kativik Civil Security. He has had the privilege to live and teach in the North, sail the Northwest Passage, participate in training patrols with the Canadian Rangers, and travel on the land, ice, and waters of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska with community responders and Elders. He has also had the opportunity to learn from veteran first responders in Nova Scotia as a searcher with the Strait Area Ground Search and Rescue Association.
Dr. Kikkert serves as a network coordinator with the North America and Arctic Defence and Security Network and as the editor for the interdisciplinary academic journal, The Northern Mariner.
BOOKS
Publications
Books
Arthur-Lackenbauer, Jennifer, Peter Kikkert, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Familiar Fields to Foreign Soil: Three Rural Townships and the Great War. Norwich: Norwich and District Museum and Archives / South Norwich Historical Society, 2018. 390 pp.
Edited Books
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. The Canadian Forces and Arctic Sovereignty: Debating Roles, Interests, and Requirements, 1968-1974. Waterloo: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies / WLU Press, 2010. x, 378 pp.
Document Collections
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. Tracks North: The Story of Exercise Musk Ox by John Lauder. Arctic Operational History Series, vol. 5. Antigonish: Brian Mulroney Institute on Government, 2018. 80 pp.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. Lessons in Arctic Operations: The Canadian Army Experience, 1945-1956. Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security (DCASS) No. 7. Calgary and Waterloo: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies/Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, 2016. xxviii, 251 pp.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Legal Appraisals of Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty: Key Documents, 1904-58. Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security (DCASS) No. 2. Calgary and Waterloo: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies/Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, 2014. xliv, 337 pp.
Book Chapters
Greaves, Wilfrid and Peter Kikkert. “Climate-Disasters and Human Insecurity: British Columbia 2021.” In Evolving Human Security: Frameworks and Considerations for Canada’s Military, eds. Shannon Lewis-Simpson and Sarah Jane Meharg. Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy, 2023. 140-142.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “‘That Others May Live’: Search and Rescue.” In Evolving Human Security Frameworks and Considerations for Canada’s Military, eds. Shannon Lewis-Simpson and Sarah Jane Meharg. Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2023. 143-147.
Kikkert, Peter, Calvin Pedersen, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Mitigating the Tyranny of Time and Distance: Community-Based Organizations and Marine Mass Rescue Operations in Inuit Nunangat.” In Arctic Shipping at a Time of Change: Governance Challenges and Approaches in the Canadian North, edited by Kristin Bartenstein and Aldo Chircop. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 182-210. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004508576_010.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “A ‘Profound Change of Direction’? Co-Developing Canada’s ‘New’ Arctic and Northern Policy Framework.” In Arctic Fever: Political, Economic & Environmental Aspects of New Regional Agendas, ed. Anastasia Likhacheva. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 241-276.
Kikkert, Peter. “In Search of Polar Sovereignty, 1900-1959.” In Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic. Eds. Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 23 pgs.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “The Militarization of the Arctic to 1990.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics. Ed. Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 487-505. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20557-7_30.
Kikkert, Peter. “Finding Ihuma: Inuit Leadership Norms and the Canadian Rangers.” In Canadian Armed Forces Arctic Operations, 1941-2015: Historical and Contemporary Lessons Learned. Eds., Adam Lajeunesse and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Fredericton: The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Peace, 2017. 370-386.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Peter Kikkert, and Kenneth Eyre. “Lessons in Arctic Warfare: The Army Experience, 1945-1955.” In Canadian Armed Forces Arctic Operations, 1941-2015: Historical and Contemporary Lessons Learned. Eds., Adam Lajeunesse and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Fredericton: The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Peace, 2017. 370-386.
Kikkert, Peter, Adam Lajeunesse, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Lester Pearson, the United States, and Arctic Sovereignty: A Case of Un-Pearsonian Diplomacy?” Mike’s World: Lester Pearson and Canadian External Relations, 1963-1968. Edited by Asa McKercher and Galen Perras. Vancouver: UBC Press. 2017.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “The Dog in the Manger – and Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie: The United States, Canada and the Sector Principle, 1924-1955.’” International Law and Politics of the Arctic Ocean: Essays in Honour of Donat Pharand. Edited by Suzanne Lalonde and Ted McDorman. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 216-239.
Kikkert, Peter. “Constructing a Role: The Royal Canadian Air Force in the Arctic, 1945-1953.” In De-Icing Required! The Canadian Air Force’s Experience in the Arctic. Ed. W.A. March. Sic Itur Ad Astra: Canadian Aerospace Power Studies Series vol.4. Trenton: Canadian Forces Air Warfare Centre, 2012.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “Sovereignty and Security: The Department of External Affairs, the United States, and Arctic Sovereignty, 1945-68.” In In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009. Ed. Greg Donaghy and Michael Stevenson. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011. 101-20.
Kikkert, Peter. “1946: The Year Canada Chose Its Path in the Arctic.” In Calgary Papers on Military and Strategic Studies: Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security Historical Perspectives. Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Calgary: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, 2010. 69-110.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “Building on ‘Shifting Sands’: The Canadian Armed Forces, Sovereignty and the Arctic, 1968-1972.” In Calgary Papers on Military and Strategic Studies: Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security Historical Perspectives. Edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Calgary: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, 2010. 283-308.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Civil-Military Operational Support to the ‘Heart of Canada’s North’: Looking to Alaska and the Australian North for Options?” Canadian Military Journal 21, no.4 (Autumn 2021): 26-39.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “‘A Great Investment in Our Communities’: Strengthening
Nunavut’s Whole of Society Search and Rescue Capabilities.” Arctic 74, no. 3 (September 2021): 258-275. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic73099.
Kikkert, Peter. “‘The United States Cannot Afford to Lag Behind Russia’: The Push for an American Nuclear Icebreaker, 1957-1961.” The Northern Mariner 31, no. 1 (2021): 30-60. https://doi.org/10.25071/2561-5467.120.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Search and Rescue, Climate Change, and the Expansion of the Coast Guard Auxiliary in Inuit Nunangat / the Canadian Arctic.” Canadian Journal of Emergency Management 1, no. 2 (July 2021): 26-62.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “The Canadian Rangers: Strengthening Community Disaster Resilience in Canada’s Remote and Isolated Communities.” The Northern Review 51 (2021): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.22584/nr51.2021.003.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “On Hallowed Ground”: St. Roch, Sovereignty, and the 1944 Northwest Passage Transit.” The Northern Mariner vol XXIX (3) (2019): 213-232.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Bolstering Community-Based Marine Capabilities in the Canadian Arctic.” Canadian Naval Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2019): 11-16.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “‘Men of Frontier Experience’: Yukoners, Frontier Masculinity and the First World War.” The Northern Review 44 (Spring 2017): 209-242.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “‘The Index to a Man’s Principle’s’: Dawson and the Canadian Yukon Patriotic Fund, 1914-1920.” The Northern Review 44 (Spring 2017): 51-79.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “Archipelagic Analogs? Indonesian Baselines, Canadian Arctic Sovereignty, and the Framing of Mental Maps, 1957-62.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 50 (December 2014): 227-52.
Kikkert, Peter. “The Disappointing Arctic: Will More Shipping Dreams Be Shattered on the Ice?” Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 43, no. 4 (October 2012): 539-552.
Kikkert, Peter. “Promoting National Interests and Fostering Cooperation: Canada and the Development of a Polar Code.” Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 43, no. 3 (July 2012): 319-334.
Kikkert, Peter. “Kurt Meyer and Canadian Memory: Villain and Monster, Hero and Victim or worse – a German?” Canadian Military History 21, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 33-44.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Setting an Arctic Course: Task Force 80 and Canadian Control in the Arctic.” The Northern Mariner XXI (October 2011): 327-358.
Kikkert, Peter. “Rising Above the Rhetoric: Northern Voices and the Strengthening of Canada’s Capacity to Maintain a Stable Circumpolar World.” The Northern Review 33 (Spring 2011): 29-45.
Kikkert, Peter. “The Polaris Incident: “Going to the Mat” with the Americans.” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 11, no. 3 (Spring 2009): 1-29.
Conference Proceedings
Kikkert, Peter, John Quigley, Ian Belton, Robert Brown, Kerri-Ann Ennis, Floris Goerlandt, Susan Howick, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Lawrence Mak, Calvin Pedersen, Ronald Pelot, Desai Shan, Lesley Walls, George Wright. Addressing the challenges to search and rescue operations caused by ice conditions in Nunavut, Canada. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023.
Hughes, James Alexander, William Hannah, Peter Kikkert, Barry MacKenzie, Wendy Ashlock,
Sheridan Houghten, Daniel Ashlock, Matthew Stoodley, Michael Dube, Rachel Brown, and Amanda Saunders. “We Are Not Pontius Pilate: Acknowledging Ethics and Policy.” 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Canberra, Australia, 2020, pp. 2975-2984, doi: 10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308312.
Other Scholarly and Professional Publications: Articles, Reports, and Policy Briefs
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. The State of Search and Rescue in Nunavik. A Report for the Kativik Civil Security Department. June 2023. 62 pp.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Strengthening the Foundation: Proposal for a Hudson Bay Consortium Working Group on Search and Rescue. Hudson Bay Consortium, May 2023. 38 pp.
Pedersen, Calvin Aivgak, Peter Kikkert, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Inuit Nunangat needs a community public safety officer program.” Policy Options. 27 June 2022.
Kikkert, Peter. “Creating a Non-Military Disaster Workforce Must be Part of Canada’s Climate Change
Response.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network Policy Brief. 8 December 2021.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “The Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Rangers’ Maritime Role: An Unclear Proposal.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network Quick Impact. 13 October 2021.
Kikkert, Peter. “How creating an Armed Forces Indigenous community assistance program would pay off.” Policy Options. 31 March 2021.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Enhancing the Canadian Ranger Role in Disaster/Emergency Management (DEM).” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network Policy Brief. 24 February 2021.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Strengthening Search and Rescue in Nunavut: Approaches and Options.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network Policy Primer. January 2021. 8 pp.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. Measuring the Success of the Canadian Rangers. Report prepared for 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group and the Canadian Rangers National Authority. Published by the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). October 2020. 169 pp.
Lajeunesse, Adam, Peter Kikkert, Adam MacDonald, Aldo Chircop, and Brian Bow. “Economics and Resources.” In Understanding the Future Arctic Security Environment: Applying NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis to Canadian Arctic Defence and Security. Ed. P. Whitney Lackenbauer. North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) Report. September 2020. 51-62.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Handshakes or Arm Wrestling? The United States, Canada and Icebreakers in the Arctic.” Canadian Global Affairs Institute Policy Perspective. August 2020. 3 pp.
Kikkert, Peter. “Gaps and Bridges: The Case for American Polar Icebreaker.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) Quick Impact Reports. August 2020. 5 pp.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Using Civil-Military Operations to “Expand and Deepen” Relationships with Northern Communities: Examples from Alaska and Australia. North American and Arctic Defence and Security (NAADSN) Special Report. July 2020. 28 pp. (With P. Whitney Lackenbauer).
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “The Canadian Rangers and COVID-19.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) Policy Briefs. June 2020. 3 pp.
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework: A Compendium of Documents.” North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network: Policy Briefs, June 2020. 231 pp.
Kikkert, Peter, Angulalik Pedersen, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Kitikmeot Roundtable on Search and Rescue: Summary Report / Qitiqmiuni Katimatjutauyuq Qiniqhiayinit Annaktinillu – Naunaitkutat. Report from a workshop hosted at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, 31 January – 1 February 2020. Available at Kitikmeot Search and Rescue (Kitikmeotsar.ca). 17 pp.
Kikkert, Peter, Angulalik Pedersen, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Kitikmeot Roundtable on SAR: General Report and Findings. Report from a workshop hosted at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, 31 January – 1 February 2020. Available at Kitikmeot Search and Rescue (Kitikmeotsar.ca). 68 pp.
Kikkert, Peter, Angulalik Pedersen, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Kitikmeot Roundtable on SAR: Mass Rescue Tabletop Exercise Report. Report from a workshop hosted at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, 31 January – 1 February 2020. Available at Kitikmeot Search and Rescue (Kitikmeotsar.ca). 52 pp.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “Canada’s Arctic & Northern Policy Framework: A roadmap for the future?” In Redefining Arctic Security: Arctic Yearbook 2019. Eds. Heininen, L., H. Exner-Pirot and J. Barnes. Akureyri, Iceland: Arctic Portal, 2019. Available from https://arcticyearbook.com/.
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “A Better Road Map Needed for Arctic and Northern Policy Framework.” Policy Options, 17 September 2019, https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2019/a-better-road-map-needed-for-arctic-and-northern-policy-framework/
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney and Peter Kikkert. “An Important International Crossroads: Implementing Canada’s Arctic Priorities in Strong, Secure, Engaged.” Workshop Report for Department of National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces. Submitted December 2018. 61 pp. Translated into French as “Un carrefour international important”: Mise en oeuvre des priorités du Canada dans l’Arctique dans le cadre de Protection, Sécurité, Engagement.”
Kikkert, Peter and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. “A History of Ikaluktuuttiaq.” In A Guidebook for Research with Nunavut Communities. Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay) Edition. Cambridge Bay, NU: Polar Knowledge Canada/Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq (Kitikmeot Heritage Society), 2016. 14-31.