Central America
In Central America, MAB has successfully collaborated with OAS, SICA, governments, and civil society to identify WMD nonproliferation resources that can also benefit regional security and development needs related to drug trafficking, small arms proliferation and criminal gangs.
Current Research
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Twitosphere: The New Frontier for Human Security in Mexico
Drug-related violence across Mexico continues to escalate despite government efforts to dismantle powerful cartels. Traditional media sources, such as newspapers and television, have curbed their coverage of these stories because of the threats and murders of journalists by drug lords and their syndicates. Social media sources-blogs, Twitter, Facebook-have, however, emerged
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Government of Canada Announces SICA 1540 Coordinator
The Government of Canada has announced that it will fund a UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 Coordinator in the Central American Integration System (SICA). This announcement comes less than a year after the Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries program called for the establishment of such a position.
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Stimson has worked with governments in Central -
OAS lauds Stimson’s “dual use” UNSCR 1540 implementation model at South America meeting
During the opening remarks of a recent South America UN Security Council Resolution 1540 meeting in Lima Peru, Mr. Gordon Duguid, a senior official of the Organization of American States, lauded Stimson's Managing Across Boundaries program model for implementation. Said Mr. Duguid: "Resolution 1540...is an opportunity not simply for a governmental response to
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“UNSCR 1540 Implementation in the Americas: A Model for Success”
In collaboration with the Stimson Center and the Stanley Foundation, the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations hosted a luncheon and panel discussion entitled “UNSCR 1540
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Implementation in the
Americas: A Model for Success.” The panel featured Ambassador Claude
Heller,
Permanent Representative of Mexico
to the UN and chairman of the 1540 Committee, Ambassador -
A “Dual Use” Approach to Development and Security in Central America
Few regions of the world better illustrate the intimate nexus between human development and security than does Central America. A region of inherent economic and social promise, its fortunes have often been frustrated by a plethora of serious security challenges related to small arms, drugs, and criminal gangs. Although a long and innovative roster of instruments has
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