The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Security Cooperation is hosting a Central American Maritime Regional Initiative (CAMRI) Workshop at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, May 2-6, 2016. Partner nations from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama 
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The Perry Center conducted a Caribbean Regional Countering Transnational Threats Seminar on April 27-29, 2016, in Kingston Jamaica, with over 70 defense and security professionals in attendance. Participants included officials from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and 
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Perry Center Professor Pat Paterson joined the US Southern Command Human Rights team at a South American Regional Seminar on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The event was hosted by the Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the Peruvian Armed 
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The Perry Center hosted “Evolving Threats in Central America: Forecasting an Uncertain Future,” a Hemispheric Forum that aimed to analyze regional trends and envision a strategy to combat current and future security challenges. Perry Center Visiting Professor Walter Earle led the discussion, which featured remarks 
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April 7-8, 2016, the Perry Center partnered with the University of Guadalajara’s Social Science and Humanities Department to carry out a “Countering Transnational Threats in the Americas Seminar” in Guadalajara, Mexico. Professors Boris Saavedra and Celina Realuyo presented before a crowd of more than 190 
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Perry Center professor Pat Paterson presented to the Committee on Hemispheric Security (CHS) at the Organization of American States (OAS). Professor Paterson spoke about the impact of organized crime at a special session to address security concerns of the small island states of the Caribbean. 
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On April 5, 2016, the Honorable Edmund E. Dillon (Major General, retired), Minister of National Security of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, visited the Perry Center to discuss preparations for the upcoming Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (XII CDMA). Minister Dillon was 
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April 4-5, 2016, the Perry Center collaborated with Professors Yadira Galvez and Dr. Alejandro Chanona of the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Department of Political and Social Sciences (UNAM) to conduct a “Countering Transnational Threats in the Americas Seminar” for over 150 students, academics and 
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Dr. Boris Saavedra gave a video teleconference lecture followed by a Q&A session to 30 students of Peru’s Naval Postgraduate School Strategic Management Course for Defense and Crisis Administration (CEDEYAC). His topic, the Conceptual Nature of Security and Defense, addressed the varying perceptions of public 
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On March 22, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo briefed the National Coordination Council for Counterterrorism on the importance of interagency and international cooperation to combat the convergence of terrorism and crime. Her presentation, which included a case study of ISIL as a criminalized caliphate, was 
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