The Legal Aspects of Defense Support to Civil Authorities 18010 course presented the inaugural Vincent Sowa Award to Group Captain Musa Sanda-Jika from Nigeria.
The Sowa Award is to honor the memory of Lt Col Vincent Sowa from Sierra Leone. The award citation reads: Continue reading
DIILS recently sent a team to Mongolia, to participate in Khaan Quest 2018, a pre-deployment exercise for Mongolian peace keepers preparing to serve in South Sudan as part of a UN Peace Keeping mission. DIILS has engaged with Mongolia since 2015 to build legal capacity that would enable Mongolian units to deploy to UN peacekeeping missions. Their participation in Khan Quest 2018 represents a major milestone in achieving that objective.
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Please join us in extending appreciation and best wishes to Mr. John T Phelps, who has retired from DIILS.
John has been an esteemed member of the DIILS team for over ten years, serving as a Regional Program Director for several regions, and, for many years, as the Course Director for the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Resident course in Newport, RI.
He will be greatly missed by his colleagues and our international participants alike.
We wish him well as he begins this new chapter in his life!
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The Legal Aspects of Defense Support to Civil Authorities 18010 course presented the inaugural Vincent Sowa Award to Group Captain Musa Sanda-Jika from Nigeria. Read More
DIILS recently sent a team to Mongolia, to participate in Khaan Quest 2018, a pre-deployment exercise for Mongolian peace keepers preparing to serve in South Sudan as part of a UN Peace Keeping mission. Read More
The Legal Aspects of Defense Support to Civil Authorities 18010 course presented the inaugural Vincent Sowa Award to Group Captain Musa Sanda-Jika from Nigeria. Read More
The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies - DIILS - is a Defense Department organization that plans and executes professional legal education and international engagement focused on human rights, international humanitarian law, and the law of armed conflict. DIILS is one of several Defense resources that support the conduct of U.S. foreign policy through security cooperation.
