NEWPORT, R. I. – The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) celebrated the distinguished career of Captain Ian S. Wexler, Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC), United States Navy (USN), during a retirement ceremony on Naval Station Newport June 23, 2023. Dr. Celeste W. Gventer, President of the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU), presided over the ceremony, honoring…
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A team from the Defense Security Cooperation University’s (DSCU) Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) recently traveled to Lebanon to meet with members of the Lebanese Navy as part of an ongoing Security Cooperation program. Since its inception in 1992 as the international training detachment at the Naval Justice School, and subsequent transfer to the Defense Security…
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A team from the Defense Security Cooperation University’s (DSCU) Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) recently traveled to Morocco to meet with members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces as part of an ongoing Security Cooperation program. Morocco was among the very first countries in the world to recognize the sovereignty of the United States through a treaty of peace and…
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A Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) team recently traveled to Bahrain to meet with members of its military as part of an ongoing Security Cooperation program.. For over 30 years, DIILS located in Newport, R. I., has been the lead U.S. Department of Defense Security Cooperation resource for global legal engagement with Partner Nation security sector institutions and…
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CAPT Ian Wexler, Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) Director, led a DIILS team in a recent meeting with lawyers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The Institutional Capacity Building engagement was a vibrant discussion on the law of armed conflict in the context of the current conflict as part of AFU efforts to review, improve, and standardize its training for the whole…
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DSCU’s president, Dr. Celeste W. Gventer, hosted a consultative session March, 24, 2023, during which Security Cooperation stakeholders and scholars brainstormed ideas for the potential scope and themes of the 2023 Security Cooperation Conference. The discussion included a review of the results from the 2022 Security Cooperation Conference Report . The consultative session deliberated the…
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A Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) team recently traveled to Kazakhstan to conduct a seminar on Human Rights and the Law of Armed Conflict with members of Kazakhstan’s military. DIILS is the provider of choice for Rule of Law seminars focused on International Human Rights, the Law of Armed Conflict (also called International Humanitarian Law), and civilian control of the…
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A DIILS team recently traveled to Ecuador to meet with members of their military as part of an ongoing security cooperation program.
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The Institute for Security Governance recently worked with U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet and the navies and coast guards from over 30 countries to redesign the Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training multilateral training exercise. Going forward, this exercise will incorporate a biannual Indo-Pacific Regional Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Information Sharing (IS) Forum focused on meeting the…
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A DIILS team recently traveled to Peru to conduct a seminar on Human Rights and the Law of Armed Conflict with members of the Peruvian military.
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