On May 19, our alumnus, retired Brigadier General Augusto Alvarez from Peru guest lectured to our 2015 Combating Transnational Organized Crime specialized course via videoconference on Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) as a case of the convergence of terrorism and crime in Peru. Having studied convergence …

From May 8-9, 2015, the Perry Center’s Deputy Director Dr. Luis Bitencourt taught for the Doctorate Program of the Mexican Center for Avanced Naval Studies, in Mexico City. The 10-hour program included lectures and discussions for 5 Mexican general officers and evolved around the topic …

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 …

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 …