A team from the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) recently traveled to Latvia to conduct an executive seminar on Human Rights and the Law of Armed Conflict with members of their military.

For more than 30 years, DIILS, located in Newport, Rhode Island, has been the lead Department of Defense security cooperation resource for global legal engagement with partner nation security sector institutions and personnel.  As a component of the Defense Security Cooperation University, DIILS’ mission is to advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests by building the institutional capacity of partner nation security forces in a collaborative manner to best to respond to shared security challenges in a responsible, accountable, and legally compliant manner.