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Article: AINA at 60: leaping towards a bright future hand in hand with a new generation.(Arctic Institute of North America)
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- December 1, 2005
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The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) officially saw the light 60 years ago, when it was chartered by an Act of Parliament in December 1945. With World War II in their rear-view mirrors and the Cold War a yet poorly defined haze in their headlights, Canadian and American governments worried that the potentially resource-rich Arctic regions of North America remained a vast and poorly monitored territory of enormous strategic importance. AINA was created as a binational organization to start filling up a gaping hole in our respective knowledge bases. "To advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, the arts ...