Advanced Policymaking Seminar (APS)

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Collage de Eventos APS

These three-day seminars were designed to help participants to expand their knowledge in security and defense policy formulation processes. The seminar has been offered periodically, primarily for Caribbean audiences, including CHDS alumni. The seminar operated at theoretical and applied levels to expand competence in analytical, planning, forecasting, evaluation, and managing tools used to address the key questions facing defense decision-makers. It introduced participants to the advanced concepts and analytical tools for designing the defense establishment for the 21st Century with a focus on adaptation, modernization, and transformation of security and defense capabilities.

 

 

APS Participants

Seminar participants were primarily selected among applicants from the Caribbean who had graduated from the Caribbean Defense and Security Course and other CHDS Washington, DC resident courses. Experienced civilian, military, and policy-making officers who were not CHDS graduates, but who were professionally engaged in defense or security issues in their countries, were often also selected to join the program.

The APS permitted participants to analyze and compare the nature and scope of different perspectives on security and defense issues in the Caribbean, and to envision ways to increase regional cooperation in response to threats and challenges confronting the region. The APS’s were designed for a multi-country audience and emphasized "whole of government" and multinational views. The 2011 APS in Barbados was the final seminar in that format. Future seminars will generally be for a single country, or several neighboring countries, for in-depth discussions on pertinent topics. Examples of topics that could be discussed include:


  • Global Environment
  • Threats in Caribbean
  • Small Arms Smuggling
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Regional Cooperation
  • MINUSTAH
  • Disaster Relief
  • Interagency Cooperation
  • Experience and Challenges for United States
  • Experience and Challenges in the Caribbean
  • Public-Private Partnership
  • SOUTHCOM
  • NORTHCOM
  • CARICOM
  • NGOs

» Previous Advanced Policymaking Seminars

  • May 2011 - Barbados
  • May 2009 - Miami
  • May 2006 - Miami
  • May 2005 - El Salvador
  • Feb 2005 - Bahamas
  • August 2004 - Paraguay

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