Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

Sustainable security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ben Zala

October 2010

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Abstract

Currently Latin America and the Caribbean is a region that finds itself somewhat out of the global spotlight. Yet poverty, militarism and environmental limits are coalescing in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the region is becoming a testing ground for responding to security challenges that are increasingly global in nature. To address these issues, security experts, academics, journalists and civil society leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean were brought together by Oxford Research Group and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref) in January 2010 to explore the implications of a ‘sustainable security’ framework for the region.