On July 29-31, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies cosponsored, together with the Panamanian Ministry of Government and Justice, a conference on “Critical Security and Defense Challenges in Mesoamerica: Regional, Governmental and Private Perspectives.” The event offered several critical insights into the problems being faced …

Under the auspices of American University’s School of International Service (SIS) and the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) a conference on human rights and democracy issues was held at the AU campus on July 22. The event, a brainstorming session for a collaborative effort …

Doctor Carol Fuller, career diplomat who heads the Secretariat of the Organization of American States Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE, for its initials in Spanish), offered the commencement address to the CHDS’s Inter-Agency Coordination and Combating Terrorism (ICCT) course that ended June 20. Center Director …