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Innovations in Citizen Security in Ecuador

An discussion of citizen security developments in Ecuador, featuring the country's Minister of the Interior.

Date & Time

Friday
Jan. 30, 2015
9:00am – 10:30am ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

During the past decade, Ecuador has faced many public security challenges common to the rest of the region, including increasing threats from international drug trafficking and criminal organizations, and institutional weakness. In order to confront these challenges, the government has implemented a range of new security and justice sector reforms, including a revised criminal code, investments in training and decentralizations of police forces, improved processes and information systems, and the establishment of a national emergency response system. This event, co-sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, will feature a discussion of Ecuador’s recent developments in citizen security—new management models, innovative use of technology, and new public policies—with the country’s Minister of Interior, José Serrano.

This event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation provided.

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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

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