From April 27 – May 8, 2015, the Perry Center supported the “Seminar on Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction and Illicit Trafficking across Regions,” organized by the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center, and supported as well by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and 
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The Perry Center was honored to receive an official visit the of National Defense College (CDN) and the Center for Naval Studies of Mexico (CESNAV), which for the second year made ​​a joint visit to the Perry Center. CDN’s delegation was headed by its Director, 
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Student participants of two specialized courses, Combating Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Networks in the Americas (CTOC) and Strategic Implications of Human Rights and Rule of Law (HR/ROL), began the distance learning phases of their courses. The nearly 80 students represent 16 countries in Latin 
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Dr. Boris Saavedra, a specialist on the role of private security firms in domestic law enforcement, presented a 2-hour lecture by video teleconference to 40 students of Peru’s Curso de Dirección Estratégica para la Defensa y Administración de Crisis (CEDEYAC). His topic, the Conceptual Nature 
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On the 12th of March, Perry Center professors Dr. Luis Bitencourt and Guillermo Pacheco presented their experiences on confidence building measures during a conference on that topic at the Organization of American States (OAS). At the OAS’s Sixth Forum on Confidence and Security-Building, Dr. Bitencourt 
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On February 24, a video conference was held with the Naval War Academy of Chile on various topics of the global environment that interested students. The student, who were not only from Chile, but also from El Salvador, Ecuador, China, and Brazil among others. Professors 
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Perry Center Professor of Practice Celina Realuyo has authored a new white paper entitled “Combating Terrorist Financing in the Gulf: Significant Progress but Risks Remain.” The white paper was published by the Arab Gulf States Institution. Executive Summary The Gulf countries have taken significant national, 
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Perry Center Professor Boris Saavedra wrote an article titled “The Emergence and Proliferation of Private Security Companies in El Salvador” (Surgimiento y proliferacion de las empresas de seguridad privada en El Salvador) for the current issue of the journal Policía y Seguridad Pública. The article 
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On January 22, three senior officers from the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF), accompanied by officers from the District of Columbia National Guard, participated in an academic exchange with Perry Center faculty. The DC National Guard organized the exchange because Jamaica is their partner in the 
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On January 9, the Perry Center bid farewell to staff member, Patricia Kehoe, and honored her with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s World of Excellence Award for exceptional support to the Center and its mission. Ms. Kehoe, a 2012 graduate of the Georgetown School of 
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