December 7-17, 2020 – Dr. Michael Sharnoff, supported by Dr. Hassan Abbas and Col. Daniel Curfiss, coordinated the NESA Center Executive Seminar attended by 93 foreign policy and security professionals from 23 countries. Read More
On 7 December 2023, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies Acting Director COL David Lamm, USA (Ret.) and Academic Dean Dr. Read More
From 2–11 October 2023, the NESA Center for Strategic Studies delivered a seven-day faculty development and transformation support workshop to the Saudi Arabian National Defense University (SANDU) War Wing. Read More
One hundred nine Fellows from 37 locations completed the Comprehensive Crisis Management course (CCM 17-1) held at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) from Feb. 9 to March 15. Read More
By Emma Bareihs, GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – A leader of the 2011 U.S. national Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, Gregory T. Gatjanis spoke to 104 participants from 53 nations on the framework and tools of national power that led to creating the... Read More
The alumni adjunct professors are (from left): Uganda People’s Defense Forces Col. Tingira Omero Irumba; Dina Al Raffie, research fellow with the George Washington Center for Homeland and Cyber Security’s Program on Extremism, Dr. Read More
More than 50 senior officials from 36 African countries attended the opening of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS)’s Senior Leaders Seminar on June 17, 2013, in Arlington, Virginia. The opening included keynote remarks by Ms. Amanda J. Read More
38 international participants graduated from the 12th offering of the DIILS Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights (LCHR) course on 26 October, 2016. Read More
Newport, RI -- October 30 was Graduation Day for 25 international participants who attended the DIILS Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights (LCHR) course. The three-week seminar at Naval Station Newport enables participants to ascertain how they, and their respective... Read More
DIILS met with the Secretary General of the government of the Republic of North Macedonia and leaders of the National Committee for Countering Violent Extremism and Counter Terrorism (NCCVECT) as a part of a legal institutional capacity building (ICB) program focused on i Read More
11 participants from 10 countries attending the DIILS Military Justice course were hosted for a tour of the Massachusetts State House by Commonwealth Representative Harold Naughton as part of their Field Studies Program visit to Boston. Read More
The Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies held its "Strategic Studies Network (SSN) Environmental Security" seminar in Washington, D.C., from 22–24 April 2024 for Read More
DIILS congratulates our alumni, Major General U.A.B Medawela, on his promotion to Chief of Staff for the Sri Lankan Army. Major General Medawela was an alumni from our Spring 2005 Peacekeeping and Rule of Law Class. Read More
From 30 August–1 September 2021, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies arranged a three-day virtual seminar to help participants assess, analyze, and identify opportunities to effectively counter human trafficking in South Asia and the Gulf and impr Read More
From 27 to 29 July, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies hosted a three-day webinar series to explore key political, military, and socio-economic dynamics impacting the wider Middle East and U.S. security policy. Read More
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (March 16, 2018) – The Marshall Center’s Central Asia Non-Resident Program, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Dushanbe’s Border Management Staff College, and the U.S. Read More
From 23 August – 1 September 2022, the Near East South Asia Center’s professional military education (PME) team conducted the second iteration of the CAPSTONE strategic leader education program for a select audience of rising Iraqi senior leaders. Read More
From 7–18 August 2023, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies hosted a delegation of 32 senior Iraqi military officers and government officials for a two-week Iraqi General Officer Capstone Seminar in Washington, D.C. Read More