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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Perry Center Professors Dr. Boris Saavedra and Celina Realuyo participated in an international seminar titled, “From Terrorist Insurgency to Transnational Organized Crime” hosted by Colombia’s Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Security (CREES, by its acronym in Spanish and Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) from 
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Perry Center professor Dr. David Spencer published a new book on Colombia. Spencer, a long-time observer and scholar on Colombian politics and history, published A Great Perhaps? – Colombia: Conflict and Divergence with fellow authors Dickie Davis, David Kilcullen, and Greg Mills. The book examines 
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Perry Center Professor Pat Paterson participated in an academic conference at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) at Fort Benning, Georgia on March 8, 2016. The conference focused on two topics: (1) human rights (HR) and international humanitarian law (IHL) in Latin American 
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On March 2, Lieutenant General Luiz Felipe Linhares Gomes, Chief of the Special Office for Major Events for the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, briefed the Perry Center staff and faculty and other members of the National Defense University on the security preparations for the 2016 
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Ambassador Adam Blackwell, the Perry Center Diplomat-in-Residence, examines security conditions in the hemisphere in his new book, If the War on Drugs is Over – Now What? Based on his experience as the Secretary for Multidimensional Security at the Organization of American States and from 
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On February 18-19, 2016, the Perry Center, in partnership with the WJPC El Salvador Alumni Association and the Ministry of Defense, conducted a Countering Transnational Threats Seminar in San Salvador for 46 security and defense officials, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense and 
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For more than a half century, Colombia has been engaged in an internal armed conflict, with tremendous political, social, and economic impact on the country. In October 2012, the Colombian government decided to seek a negotiated end to the conflict and build a stable and 
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