Few regions of the world better illustrate the intimate nexus between human development and security than does Central America, a recent Stanley Foundation project report concludes. The report, informed largely by a regional workshop in Panama City earlier this year, 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.
Brian Finlay, senior associate at the Stimson Center and the report’s author, explores how United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540) could be used by governments across the region to:
- Identify novel streams of assistance to address capacity shortfalls.
- Improve customs facilities and migratory border facilities.
- Receive training in the tracking of illegal immigration.
- Improve capacities to prevent money laundering and drug and human trafficking.
- Enhance the training of public and private officials linked to maritime trade.
- Improve their human resources and legal infrastructure.
- Strengthen the competencies of government institutions.
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In 2004, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1540 aimed at keeping the ingredients for weapons of mass destruction out of the wrong hands. 
The Stanley Foundation's David Shorr, Keith Porter, and Sean Harder attended the G-8 and G-20 Summits in Canada. 
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