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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N'djamena - The Chadian Armed Forces hosted a three day workshop between the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies and members of the Chadian Army and Air Force. Legal experts from the U.S. Army exchanged views with approximately 20 participants on a variety of legal topics, including International Armed Conflict, Non-International Armed Conflict, Rules of Engagement, Human Rights, and Targeting.
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DIILS International Operations Officer with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at American Bar Association's Section of International Law Spring meeting in Washington, DC, in April 2017. Read More
DIILS recently teamed with the Staff Judge Advocate offices of U.S. Air Forces Southern and U.S. Army South to conduct an engagement in Guatemala City, Guatemala on the subject of Military Legal Capacity Building. 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 current co-chairs of the ASEAN Defence Ministers Plus Expert Working Group on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (ADMM Plus EWG HADR) are Malaysia and United States. Read More
One hundred and eight Fellows from 49 different locations or organizations graduated from the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies’ Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) 18-1 course in Honolulu Aug. 8. 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.
