The 26th Annual CAF Conference kicked off with a fireside chat between Dr. Rebecca Bill Chavez, President & CEO, Inter-American Dialogue and Ambassador Nina Hachigian, US Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy, to discuss the inaugural Cities Summit of the Americas, which was held in Denver, Colorado, in April.
On July 12, 2022, the Inter-American Dialogue co-hosted a private discussion on the future of inter-parliamentary dialogue in the Americas alongside Argentina’s Universidad Austral.
The Inter-American Dialogue is pleased to partner with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and the Truman Center for National Policy for a conversation on the future of city and state diplomacy in advance of next year’s Cities Summit.
Rebecca Bill Chavez, Mary Ann Walker, Michael B. Hancock, Nina Hachigian, Brian A. Nichols, Jason Marczak, Joseph Losavio, Delroy Williams
On July 13, 2022, the Inter-American Dialogue hosted an event in collaboration with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and the Truman Center for National Policy focused on the next Cities Summit to be held in Denver in 2023.
On June 17, 2022, the Inter-American Dialogue hosted a public event with Assistant Secretary of State Brian A. Nichols to discuss the achievements of the Ninth Summit of the Americas and inter-American cooperation moving forward.
Rebecca Bill Chavez testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues on the Ninth Summit of the Americas on May 26, 2022.
On March 31, 2022, the Inter-American Dialogue hosted a public event to present its biennial Sol M. Linowitz policy report titled: “The Case for Renewed Cooperation in a Troubled Hemisphere: Towards the Ninth Summit of the Americas”. During the event, panelists discussed the main findings and recommendations of the report and analyzed the current state of regional and hemispheric cooperation.
On Thursday March 31st, the Inter-American Dialogue will present its Linowitz Report that draws on the deliberations of the June 2021 Sol M. Linowitz Forum, a biennial gathering of all Dialogue members. The report is informed by Dialogue members and staff, three working group background papers, and the advice and suggestions of colleagues throughout the hemisphere and beyond.
Michael Shifter, Laura Chinchilla, Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., Sylvia Escovar
With the Ninth Summit of the Americas fast approaching, the Dialogue is pleased to host the event “Summit of the Americas and Migration: A Human Rights Response to the Regional Migration Crisis” to discuss how the Hemisphere’s leaders should approach the issue of migration following human rights norms.
Michael Shifter, Santiago Canton, Manuel Orozco, Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Juan Francisco Sandoval
Although perhaps justified by the tragic events in Syria, President Trump’s last-minute decision to skip the eighth Summit of the Americas, which begins this week in Lima, Peru, was discouraging to his Latin American and Caribbean counterparts.
Before the president’s trip to Lima—his first to the region—the administration should take a close look at why US credibility in Latin America is at historic lows.