Upcoming Workshops
May 18-23, 2012
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Timed to coincide with the Institute’s XXI Annual La Jolla Energy Conference, participants will interact with expert presenters on a wide range of public policy themes that cut across the region’s energy sector.
Session topics include: A global energy outlook to 2040; the role for unconventional resources; the Western Hemisphere as the world’s new energy capital; fiscal regimes and contracts and the role for government; and country case studies from across the region. The program ends with participants attending the La Jolla Energy Conference where they are able to participate in high level policy discussions and network with Latin American government officials and energy company representatives.
June 18-22, 2012
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Reporters and editors will meet leading scientists from world-renowned research centers such as University of California, San Diego, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The journalists will visit labs, have access to cutting-edge research, build a network of contacts in the region and receive a solid grounding on a variety of green issues. A strong emphasis is placed on climate change and its impact on Latin America as well as making global issues understandable and relevant at a local level.
June 25-29, 2012
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Engaging Citizens in Community Security will look at successful models in Latin America and elsewhere that involve citizens in the struggle against criminality. Heavy emphasis will be placed on the need to protect citizens while they engage in anti-crime efforts and models for organizing and maintaining group efforts. Successful programs in Colombia and other countries will be studied and guest speakers and leaders of those programs will be invited to facilitate discussion.
July 16-27, 2012
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High school students from countries throughout Latin America with a desire to conduct scientific research or work in the areas of environment or technology will participate in this unique summer camp conducted on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. During the residential camp at the Institute of the Americas, students will receive classroom and field instruction on the environment, climate change and technology from accredited Spanish-speaking teachers. The students will conduct laboratory experiments and will be required to report their results on the final day of the camp.
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July 19-27, 2012
Latin American journalists learn about groundbreaking scientific research and engage in field discussions with health care providers and at-risk populations on the subject of HIV/AIDS. Journalists will hear presentations from Fundación Huésped and other international health organizations. The workshop will be held in Washington , D.C. in conjunction with the International AIDS Society meeting to offer journalists the opportunity to cover the global conference.
August 20-24, 2012
This workshop will offer training sessions on investigating financial/white-collar crime stories, organized crime, high-profile political figures and environmental abuses, as well as in-depth reporting on breaking, competitive stories. The instructors will be working journalists whose presentations focus on ways to access sensitive information, on interview techniques and presenting investigative data that is both informative and compelling. The workshop will include journalism exercises that are designed as interactive sessions between the participants and the speakers.
Oct. 1-5, 2012
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Law enforcement officials, community leaders and educators will study programs designed to keep youths from entering the criminal world. Participants will learn how gangs and cartels recruit and hold teenagers as well as successful approaches in terms of education, community action and government support to keep adolescents from becoming lured into the world of organized crime.
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