About David Gillies David Gillies is principal researcher, Fragile and Conflict-Affected States, The North-South Institute in Ottawa. Books by David Gillies Elections in Dangerous Places Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding edited by David Gillies Strategies of Public Engagement Shaping a Canadian Agenda for International Co-operation by (author) David Gillies Between Principle and Practice Human Rights in North-South Relations by (author) David Gillies