The US Southern Command-hosted Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) started Tuesday in Jamaica. The annual conference brings security and defense representatives from Caribbean Basin countries together to seek common efforts against drug trafficking, organized crime, and other problems that afflict the region. Many of the 
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On December 10, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense studies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. During an alumni event coordinated with the Trinidad and Tobago Alumni Association, 
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On Wednesday, December 16, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo conducted a videoconference on “The Rise of ISIS and the US Strategy to Counter It” for over 100 Perry Center alumni from 15 countries in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Topics 
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On December 9, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense studies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Perry Center Director Mark Wilkins and Professor Andy Knight, signing on 
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At a ceremony in Lincoln Hall Auditorium, the Perry Center honored Admiral Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, and Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, one of the world’s leading scholars on Caribbean defense and security issues, with the ninth annual William J. 
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Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo presented on the “Financial Front of the War against the Islamic State and US Strategy to Counter ISIL” before 48 members and guests of the briefed the Inter-American Defense Board at the Casa del Soldado, including Brigadier General Joseph Whitlock, 
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Perry Center staff and faculty completed the first-ever regional seminar on Defense Institution Building on Friday, December 11 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The seminar was attended by 31 members representing ten Caribbean Basin nations. Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force Chief of Staff General Rodney 
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December 10 each year marks International Human Rights Day. Human rights is an important element of US foreign policy. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans; Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests; Promote international understanding 
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On Monday, December 7th, a team of Perry Center staff and faculty commenced a seminar in Trinidad and Tobago. The seminar, titled “Security and Defense Institution Building: Methods, Practices, and Tools” addresses policy formulation, force design, integrated governance systems, and education systems necessary to improve 
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Perry Center Professor Pat Paterson provided two lectures at a 3-day international conference “Challenges to security in the hemisphere against the new regional scenarios” at the the Colombian National War College’s Regional Center for Strategic Security Studies (CREES) in Bogota, Colombia on 1-3 Dec 2015. 
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