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What is the Security Research Hub?
The Security Research Hub (SRH) is a platform where Florida International University’s (FIU) Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Polic (JGI) harnesses publicly available information to promote shared understanding about Latin American and Caribbean security issues. The SRH leverages JGI’s subject matter experts and researchers, in collaboration with our renowned academic and private partners, to produce authoritative and reliable research honed by the rigor of academia.
Created in partnership with U.S. Southern Command, the SRH focuses on a wide range of topics such as Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUUx) activities, foreign investment, and transnational crime.
“Ultimately, the scope of security issues will largely be driven by the hub’s user community. Our intent is to leverage the hub’s user community to bring attention to the most pervasive and prevailing security challenges facing our hemisphere.”
– Brian Fonseca, Director Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy
Additionally, it will integrate virtual learning and build a collaborative community from across academia, government, civil society organizations, and private industry throughout the hemisphere. At its core, the SRH has three primary objectives it aims to fulfill:
- Enhance U.S. and partner nations’ research and analytic capacity
- Foster international analytic exchanges and collaboration among practitioners, analysts, researchers, and experts in their fields
- Create a shared understanding of critical security challenges
What Have Others Said About The SRH?
“This research hub leverages technology, open-source data, and the intellectual capital of academia, NGOs and individual citizens. By making data accessible, we are ‘open-sourcing’ the problem set, which will promote new insights and solutions. This partnership with FIU is a significant step toward democratizing data and harnessing innovation.”
“It is of utmost importance to build bridges between the production of new knowledge and decision-making processes that can transform our Hemisphere. This project allows that—the construction of safer, better integrated and prosperous societies free of fear and free of want.”
– Ambassador Jean Manes, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
– Luis G. Solis, former President of Costa Rica
Our Partners
The SRH partners with leading government and non-government organizations across the hemisphere to ensure robust and accurate collaboration to address the most critical security issues that affect Latin America and the Caribbean.
