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Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. The latest investigation …
The SSRC Supports the National Vietnam Encyclopedia Project to Gain Experience from US Encyclopedia Projects
The SSRC’s Vietnam Program organized a study tour in the US for a delegation from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), with the National Vietnam Encyclopedia Project. The project, which began in 2014, sets out to publish a 36-volume national encyclopedia, ranging in topic from society and culture to science and technology. The project expects to mobilize more than 600 scientists and scholars in Vietnam and around the world. To inspire the encyclopedia compilation efforts, the SSRC organized visits with disciplinary, state and regional encyclopedia projects in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC to learn about the conceptualization, processes …