Course: Virtual

The Defense Governance Course 2021 is a virtual 40-hour course that explores relevant concepts, institutions, norms, values, processes, and methodologies related to the functioning and effectiveness of defense governance within a democratic state.

The principal objective of this course is to offer participants the theoretical foundations and analytical tools to help them develop and/or expand their ability to be active participants in the processes of security and defense strategy and policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and control and oversight.

The Joint and Interagency Course seeks to increase participant awareness, understanding and an appreciation for the importance of joint and interagency efforts to confront the hybrid defense and security challenges facing governments today, both regionally and internationally.

Participants should be able to contribute to the general objectives of Rule of Law (ROL), Armed Forces and Defense Policy at both the personal and institutional level, acquiring and/or improving the following functional competencies:

• Identifying and examining ROL topics most relevant to the defense sector and armed forces in the Western Hemisphere.

Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) pose security and defense threats to all democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere. As such, the CTTN course seeks to identify and analyze strategies and policies that help

This Cyber Policy Development course is specially designed for English-speaking countries of the Caribbean and focuses on the understanding of cybersecurity, specifically in the area of critical infrastructures that, for geographical and developmental reasons, are of major importance to the sub-region, and the vulnerability they represent as elements that are vital to the survival of these countries.

The course explores the increasing challenges to cyber security at the national, international and transnational levels. This is a comprehensive, non-technical course, for government and private sector cyber professionals.

Much of the Western Hemisphere lies within an area that is prone to natural disasters. The Pacific nations, for example, lie on the "ring of fire," a massive chain of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that circle the Pacific Ocean. The Caribbean and Central American nations are frequently in the path of Atlantic hurricanes. Global climate change can have a variety of environmental impacts from water scarcity, to rising sea levels, to droughts that devastate crops, to forest fires.

The principal objective of this course is to offer participants the theoretical foundations and analytical tools to help them develop and/or expand their ability to be active participants in the processes of security and defense strategy and policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and control and oversight.