Participants in the Strategic Vision Initiative for Hemispheric Defense and Security meet at the Perry Center to develop forward thinking research to support the agenda of the 2018 Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas to be held in Mexico City in 2018. Perry Center partners include the National Defense University (Argentina), National Academy for Strategic and Political Studies (Chile), Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Security (Colombia), Center for Advanced National Studies (Peru) and Center for Advanced Strategic Studies (El Salvador).