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Ivelaw Griffith, dean of
the FIU Honors College and professor of Political Science, will
be speaking at symposium on security
in Washington, D.C. on Wed., May 21 from 9 a.m. to noon.
“Security in the Americas: Our
Hemispheric Neighborhood” is
being presented by the Organization of American States (OAS),
The World Affairs Council of Washington, DC, and The Center for
Latin
American Issues. Griffith will be speaking on “Illicit
Arms-Trafficking in the Caribbean.”
To view a live webcast of the event,
go to http://www.oas.org/OASpage/live/OASlive.asp.
A longtime specialist on Caribbean
and Inter-American security and narcotics issues, Griffith has
published six books, most
recently Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty
Under Siege (Penn
State University Press, 1997) and The Political Economy
of Drugs in the Caribbean (Macmillan of London, 2000). He currently
is
working on Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror.
Griffith serves on the editorial
board of Security and Defense Studies Review, published by the
Center for Hemispheric Defense
Studies at the National Defense University, in Washington,
DC, and Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social
Psychology,
published
by the Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the
University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He has served
on the Executive
Council of the International Studies Association-South,
and is a Past President
of the Caribbean Studies Association, comprising over 1,000
scholars in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
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