We are an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Faculty of Arts and connected across the University of New Brunswick.
In 1980, UNB established Canada's first research centre and scholarly journal devoted to the study of terrorism and low intensity conflict. In 2006, these centres joined to form the Gregg Centre, which is named for Brigadier Milton F. Gregg, VC. We feel that Gregg’s example of service, as a soldier, as UNB’s president, and finally as a public servant, is the light that guides our activities both in and out of the university classroom.
Milton Gregg came from King's County New Brunswick. He was decorated for courage and leadership under fire with the Military Cross and Bar while serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Great War.
On 28 September 1918 in the midst of fierce fighting in the Marcoing Line during the final "100 Days Campaign" then Lieutenant Gregg won the Victoria Cross, the nation's highest award for valour. He returned to active service in 1939, where his abilities were applied to preparing infantry officers to lead their platoons in action during the Second World War.
Brigadier Milton Gregg, VC, is best remembered at UNB as the President (from 1944-47) who successfully accommodated the flood of demobilizing soldiers at the end of the Second World War. In 1948 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for York-Sunbury and appointed to Cabinet, where he continued his service to the nation as Minister of Fisheries and then Veteran's Affairs. He later served as a diplomat with the United Nations in Iraq, Indonesia and New York and as Canadian High Commissioner to British Guiana. Throughout his public service the Honourable Milton Gregg VC remained a staunch protector of New Brunswick's environment and heritage sites.
