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 
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On June 26-28, six CHDS faculty and staff participated in the Armed Forces & Society Conference held in Santiago, Chile, by the Research Committee (RC 24) of International Political Science Association. The conference, one of the more visible and noteworthy conferences on security and defense 
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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 
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On January 12, Dr. Luis Bitencourt participated as a panelist with a highly distinguished group of experts on Brazil at the America’s Society and Council of the Americas, in Washington, DC. The title of the forum was “Economic and Political Challenges confronting Brazil.” Dr. Bitencourt 
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Last week, Perry Center Assistant Professor Kevin Newmeyer successfully defended his dissertation titled Cybersecurity Policy in Developing Nations: A Jamaica Case Study – a study that details the formation of the Jamaican government and private sector’s views of cybersecurity, government initiatives to build a national 
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