Human Rights
Senior Executive Seminar: Global & Regional Power Competition
From 15-19 November 2021, the Near East South Asia Center (NESA) hosted a virtual Senior Executive Seminar titled “Global and Regional Power Competition.” The seminar started off with welcomes from Course Director Dr. Michael Sharnoff, NESA Center Academic Dean Dr. Roger Kangas, and NESA...
SEXUAL VIOLENCE: NOBEL LAUREATE DR DENIS MUKWEGE PRAISES CONGOLESE MILITARY JUSTICE
NEWPORT – The 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize for International Peace, Dr. Denis Mukwege, offered a resounding endorsement of FARDC military justice for actions that reflect positively on the work of the U.S. Defense Institute for International Legal Studies (DIILS).Since 2008, DIILS has...
SIXTEEN NATIONS ATTEND DIILS LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND HUMAN RIGHTS COURSE
Twenty-one lawyers, commanders and staff officers from sixteen nations recently attended DIILS third Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights (LCHR) course at Naval Station Newport. The three-week course offered a multi-faceted view of the application of the Law of Armed Conflict (...
SPOTLIGHT ON DIILS ALUMNI: Lt Col Ernesto Govea Basch, Argentina
Lt Col Ernesto Govea Basch, Legal Adviser from the Argentinean Army (HQ Buenos Aires) was appointed as a lecturer on International Humanitarian Law in Asuncion, Paraguay Republic in 2015. He has also been assigned to lecture on the differences between the Argentinean and the Paraguayan...
Sri Lanka’s return to ethnic majoritarianism.
DKI APCSS Professor Shyam Tekwani has a new article published by the East Asia Forum entitled “Sri Lanka’s return to ethnic majoritarianism.” In the article, Tekwani states that “Before Sri Lanka’s economy can be rebuilt or democratic institutions revitalised, the country will need to come...
THAILAND LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND HUMAN RIGHTS AUGUST 2012
Thailand Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Seminar Group. The DIILS seminar team with Col of JUSMAGTHAI at the ThailandLOAC and Human Rights Seminar in August 2012. http://www.jusmagthai.com
Two Courses Begin at the Perry Center
On Monday, April 24, 2017 two courses began at the Perry Center: Strategic Implications of Human Rights and the Rule of Law (HR/ROL) and Combating Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Networks in the Americas (CTOC). Over 80 military and civilian officials from 18 Western Hemisphere...
U.S. GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE HEAD SPEAKS TO DIILS LCHR COURSE
NEWPORT - Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for the U.S. Department of State Office of Global Criminal Justice, addressed 25 military and civilian participants from 19 countries on the occasion of their graduation from 9 th Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights (LCHR) course offered by...
U.S. Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Seminar Concludes
At the invitation of the Office of Defense Cooperation, U.S. Embassy Guyana, the U.S. Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) presented a two-day seminar in Georgetown on September 28-29, 2009 for members of the Guyana Defense Force. The seminar addressed issues of Human...
U.S.-Turkiye Track II Talks
On 9–10 October 2023, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, in partnership with theMiddle East Institute (MEI),held Track II talks between the United States and Türkiye in Ankara. The U.S. delegation included Randa Slim (MEI), Robert Ford (former Ambassador to Algeria and...
USAR TEAM CONDUCTS DIILS TRAINING MISSION IN DRC
DIILS Congratulates DRC Participant During a Graduation Ceremony. Two members of the United States Army Reserve (USAR) Legal Command conducted a two week mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), training over one hundred Congolese officers in two separate sessions...
Why We Need a Regional Approach for Crisis Management with North Korea
“Why We Need a Regional Approach for Crisis Management with North Korea,” is the title of an OpEd written by Dr. Deon Canyon and Dr. Sungmin Cho for Security Nexus. This paper emphasizes the need for regional cooperation and the challenges involved in addressing crisis management in North...
Wilson Center Event on Migration
On March 1, 2017 Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo spoke on U.S. efforts to combat human trafficking and transnational organized crime in the Americas at the Woodrow Wilson Center Latin American Program's event on Migration, Trafficking and Organized Crime in Central America, Mexico and...