Publication

This report argues that few regions better illustrate the intimate nexus between human development and security than Central America. The report, informed by a regional workshop in Panama City in 2010, analyzes a region of inherent economic and social promise that has long been frustrated by countless security challenges related to small arms, drugs, and criminal gangs. In the report, the author finlay explores how UN Security Council Resolution 1540 could be used by governments across the region to identify novel streams of assistance to improve capacities to prevent money laundering and drug and human trafficking, and strengthen the competencies of government institutions.