NEWPORT -- On 30 August 2017, 16 participants from 11 countries graduated as the first class of international military students to complete the new DIILS "Legal Aspects of Peacekeeping"(LAPKO) resident course. Subject matter experts from the United Nations joined DI Read More
From September 2 to 25, 2025, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies hosted the Defense Education Pedagogy (DEP) course, a four-week virtual program directed by Perry Center Professor Dr. Read More
From February 3 to 7, 2025, the Perry Center, in partnership with the Guyana National Defence Institute, delivered its mobile Strategy and Defense Policy (SDPm) course in Georgetown, Guyana. Read More
Recent deadly attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as Germany and France, are according to Dr. Christopher C. Harmon, “harsh reminders” why the Daniel K. Read More
Perry Center Professor of Practice William Godnick and Adjunct Professor Juan Carlos Gomez, with the support of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH), facilitated a dialogue among 36 military, police, civilian government and civil society officials from 9 Ce Read More
NEWPORT, RI, 21 July 2017 Colonel Kirk Davies, United States Air Force, assumed the directorship of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS), in a Change of Director Ceremony officiated by Mr. Read More
Dr. Sam Mullins’ latest article, “COVID-19 and Terrorism in the West: Has Radicalization Really Gone Viral?”, was recently published by the Just Security blog. Co-authored with Michael King, this analytical report looks at the forecasted wave of pandemic-induced terrorism. Read More
On 26 October 2022, Professor Anne Moisan conducted the “NESA-AFRICOM Transnational Threats: Criminal Insurgency” Online Round Table, the last in the series of in-person and online sessions stretching through 2022. Read More
A DIILS team partnered with the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force to conduct operational law training. The program focused on utilizing a legal advisor in the military planning process. Read More
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Sixty-three security professionals from 47 countries graduated from the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies based here April 10. Read More
From 29 April–3 May 2024, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies hosted a Combating Transnational Threats Senior Executive Seminar (CTSES), titled "Countering Violent Extremist Organizations and Nar Read More
A DIILS Team was in the Dominican Republic, to discuss with members of their military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
A DIILS Team traveled to Bangladesh to discuss with members of their military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
DIILS traveled to Lebanon in April 2019, to discuss with members of the Lebanese military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
DIILS traveled to Uganda in May 2019, to discuss with members of the Ugandan military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
A DIILS Team was recently in Honduras, to discuss with members of their military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
DIILS traveled to Bahrain in July 2019, to discuss with members of their military the Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights as they apply to international and non-international armed conflict. Read More
