22/Jun - Seminar – National Workshop: “Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic and Colombia: Controlling the Traffic and Transfer of Arms” During June 30, and July 1-2, a meeting among ten nations entitled “Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic and Colombia: Controlling the Traffic ...

02/Jun - During June 10-11, a three-country meeting entitled "Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay: Controlling the Traffic and Transfer of Firearms" will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay. This meeting, hosted by the Arias Foundation and its counterpart organization the Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay (IELSUR in Spanish), will be the first of its kind among Southern Cone nations. The meeting...

27/May - Costa Rican academics will have the opportunity to participate in a project to strengthen the creation of a Culture of Peace in Costa Rica, through debates, dialogue and conferences. The project is dedicated to the President of the Republic, Oscar Arias Sánchez, based on an initiative of the Universidad Latina Heredia Campus with the cooperation of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress...

26/Abp - Safe School - Safe Community, a comprehensive violence-prevention model developed by the Arias Foundation as a pilot project in Costa Rica, was expanded this year to 10 Latin American countries. To this end, a team of Arias Foundation staff has been working to train NGOs across Latin America in the use of the Safe School - Safe Community methodology, empowering responsible counterparts to execute ...