Crime Events
International Efforts to Combat Organized Crime
March 13, 2009 // 9:00am — 10:45am
Mexico Institute
Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Luis Astorga, Researcher, Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Aldo Civico, Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution, Columbia University; Douglas Farah Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center; Vanda Felbab-Brown, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Eric Olson, Senior Adviser, Security Initiative, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Offsite event: Regional and Public Security Challenges in Central America
February 12, 2009 // 8:00am — 12:00pm
Latin American Program
The conference featured leading experts on topics such as Plan Merida, public security, crime and violence in Central America.
Peace Initiatives in Colombia's Armed Conflict
April 03, 2008 // 9:00am — 4:30pm
Latin American Program
As part of a continuing effort to monitor Colombia's internal armed conflict and its consequences, the peace initiatives with guerrilla as well as paramilitary actors were analyzed. The conference took place in the wake of several major setbacks for the FARC guerrillas.
Book Launch – Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror
October 05, 2004 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
Africa Program
A Roundtable discussion with Douglas Farah, an award-winning investigative journalist for the Washington Post. Mr. Farah discussed his recently published book, Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, a book which Gen. Barry McCaffrey, professor of National Security Studies at West Point calls "required reading for the thousands of U.S. and Allied law enforcement and intelligence officers prosecuting the global war on terror."
Crime, Terrorism, and Law Enforcement in Southeastern Europe
September 07, 2000 // 12:00am
European Studies
Policy Forum in Washington with Greece's Minister of Public Order, Michalis Chrysochoidis.