Twenty-six Locally Employed Staff (LES) members recently completed the Defense Security Cooperation University's (DSCU) week-long Intermediate LES Course, held for the first time at DSCU facilities in the National Capital Region.

COL Elizabeth "Liz" Allen, Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) Director, and other DIILS colleagues were pleased to meet up with many former DIILS Resident Course alumni at the African Military Law Forum in Zambia last month. African Military Law Forum.

The Defense Security Cooperation University’s Institute for Security Governance (ISG) recently led a peacekeeping operations workshop in Garmisch, Germany, with nine personnel from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian Armed Forces.

Congratulations to the latest cohort of the Institute for Security Governance's International Defense Acquisition Resource Management (IDARM) "Principles of Defense Acquisition Management" course graduates. This course provides a theoretical and practical examination of the underlying concepts, fundamentals, and philosophies of the international defense acquisition management process.

Last month, a DIILS team traveled to Ghana to conduct a three day human rights and law of armed conflict executive seminar with members of the Ghanaian military and other government agencies.

The Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) will host the 2024 Annual Security Cooperation Conference, October 27–30, 2024, in Washington, DC. The conference theme is “Building Lasting Partnerships: What Have We Learned?”

The 2024 Security Cooperation Conference will focus on the nature and scope of working more effectively and sustainably with allies and partners. Also, the conference will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to discuss these issues under the Chatham House Rule. The 2024 SC Conference will have no virtual option.