Capacity Building in Latin America and the Caribbean: PKO and the Case of Haiti

John T. Fishel

John T. Fishel is Professor of National Security Policy and Research Director at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies of the National Defense University having assumed that position on December 8, 1997. He has specialized in Latin American affairs throughout his career focusing on issues of national development and security policy. He has written extensively on civil military operations and peacekeeping and is the author of Civil Military Operations in the New World (1997) and the editor and co-author of “The Savage Wars of Peace:” Toward a New Paradigm of Peace Operations (1998). He is a past president of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS) and a former president of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA). Dr. Fishel served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the US Army School of the Americas. While on active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army he served in the United States Southern Command where he was, successively, Chief of the Civic Action Branch of the Directorate of Policy, Strategy, and Plans (J5), Chief of Research and Assessments of the Small Wars Operations Research Directorate (SWORD), Chief of the Policy and Strategy Division of the J5, and Deputy Chief of the US Forces Liaison Group. Concurrent with the latter position he served as Special Assistant to the Commander, US Military Support Group-Panama and to the Commander, US Army-South.

 

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