Sub-Regional Conferences (SRC)
The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies conducts annual Sub-Regional Conferences (SRC) devoted to focused themes designed to sustain and enhance the growing networks of CHDS alumni and regional leaders. The next SRC will take place in Mexico or Central America in July 2010. The July 2009 SRC in Cartagena, Colombia focused on the theme “Challenges to Security and Defense in a Complex Political Environment: Cooperation and Divergence in South America”. To view the papers presented in Cartagena and other SRCs please visit the links below.
Historically, CHDS was inaugurated at a Hemispheric Conference on Defense Education for Civilians, on September 18 - 19, 1997. This evolved into two Education and Defense Seminars (EDS) and later into three Research and Education in Defense and Security Studies Seminars (REDES). In 2004 CHDS began to operate under a new concept that gives emphasis to sub-regions within the hemisphere and to our alumni. The conference in Cartagena was the 5th in this series, which began in Montevideo, Uruguay in November 2005.
