The William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and the Regional Security System is hosting 80 defense and security professionals for a “Caribbean Regional Seminar on Countering Transregional-Transnational Threat Networks” seminar on March 21-23, 2017, in Bridgetown, Barbados. Colonel Glyne Grannum, Chief of Staff, 
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On March 22, 2017, a 32-person delegation from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy (IAAFA) visited the Perry Center for an organizational briefing and academic exchange. Accompanied by IAAFA’s Superintendent, Chief Master Sergeant Heriberto Diaz, Jr., USAF, the delegation included students from nine Western Hemisphere countries, 
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On Monday, March 20, 2017, the Honorable Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, visited the Perry Center. In a meeting with Perry Center leadership and faculty, Ambassador Haney gave updates on the current security environment in Costa Rica, then participated in 
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On March 9, 2017 Florida International University Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center and the US Army War College hosted a Hemispheric Conference on Security in the Changing Geopolitical Landscape in Miami, FL with over 100 participants. 
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Perry Center Professor of Practice William Godnick and Adjunct Professor Juan Carlos Gómez, with the support of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH), facilitated a dialogue among 36 military, police, civilian government and civil society officials from 9 Central American and Caribbean countries 
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On March 1, 2017, members of the Perry Center’s Costa Rican alumni network and representatives of the National Coalition against Human Trafficking (CONATT) held a roundtable about security policy and human trafficking in San José, Costa Rica. The event was moderated by alumna Marjorie Rojas 
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On March 1, 2017, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo spoke on US efforts to combat human trafficking and transnational organized crime in the Americas at the Woodrow Wilson Center Latin American Program’s event on Migration, Trafficking and Organized Crime in Central America, Mexico and the 
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Perry Center Professors Boris Saavedra and Celina Realuyo conducted a Countering Transnational Threats in the Northern Triangle Seminar in collaboration with the Colegio de Defensa Nacional (Honduran National Defense College) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on February 23, 2017. The seminar addressed topics like the convergence of 
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On Thursday, January 12, Perry Center Director Mark Wilkins presented the 2016 William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education to Ambassador Luigi Einaudi during a ceremony in Lincoln Hall Auditorium. Mr. Wilkins opened the ceremony by welcoming Ambassador Einaudi’s family and 
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In mid-November 2016, the National Defense Faculty (Facultad de Defensa Nacional – FADENA) of Argentina and the Perry Center delivered a first of a kind joint seminar titled “Uncertain Futures and New Defense Policy Imperatives” (Futuros Inciertos y los Nuevos Imperativos de la Politica de 
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