Roy Godson is president of the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC). In cooperation with the Board of Directors, he directs the Center’s policies and programs. For over twenty-five years, he has been professor of government at Georgetown University, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Godson’s research and writing focus is on nontraditional security challenges and on developing both governmental/law enforcement and cultural/educational approaches to prevent and manage them.
For several decades, Dr. Godson has developed and managed educational and training programs on several continents, consulting extensively with governments, nongovernmental private sector organizations, and the United Nations’ Office on Drug and Crime. He has also been working with education officials, mass media, and religious institutions in Central and South America, the Caucuses, and the Middle East on the development of educational programs to prevent political violence, crime, and corruption by building and supporting a culture of lawfulness. Dr. Godson has been called to testify before the Congress of the United States on more than twenty occasions, including before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on the Judiciary.
He
has written and edited 25 books and numerous articles on a variety
of security-related subjects, most recently Menace to Society:
Political-Criminal Collaboration Around the World (2003); Organized
Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (Mexican Edition,
2000; US Edition, 2001). His “Guide
to a Culture of Lawfulness” is widely regarded as a seminal document on the subject. Among his
recent articles is “Fostering a Culture of Lawfulness on the
Mexico-U.S. Border: Evaluation of a Pilot School-Based Program,” (with
Dennis J. Kenney) in Transnational Crime and Public Security: Challenges
to Mexico and the United States. John Bailey and Jorge Chabat, (University
of California Press: 2002). He was the founding editor of the quarterly
journal Trends in Organized Crime.
Dr. Godson appears regularly on major US TV networks, public television,
and is heard on local and national radio in North American and other
countries. He articles/op ed pieces have appeared in international
publications such as the International Herald Tribune and major print
media in the United States.
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