He has authored several papers and lectures including: "Re-tooling for New Challenges: Parliaments as Peace-builders", (June 2005), "Is There a Grand Strategy in Canadian Foreign Policy" Ellis Lectures, University of Calgary, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, (June 12–14, 2007) and "Canadian Grand Strategy and Lessons Learned" (April 2008), Journal of Transatlantic Studies, United Kingdom). More recently, (March 2011) he authored a paper on Canada’s Reserve Forces entitled "Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper" for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. In October 2018, Pratt participated in the Oxford Union debates and spoke in favour of the proposition act “The War on Terror has been its own worst enemy”.