Courses & Events
The Strategic Radar Project – RADAR-ES identifies emerging strategic themes in the current landscape for analysis and discussion from critical perspectives with the community. In addition to debates conducted through lectures and discussion circles, it also features film screenings, workshops, and field trips.
Courses and workshops are offered to qualify and prepare the interested public to practice Strategy, analyze real-world scenarios, and manage strategic programs and projects.
Activities will be widely promoted on a regular basis. Follow our page and our social media channels to ensure your registration!
Events
Film screenings take place at UDESC campuses or within communities in an itinerant manner. These include documentaries and films, accompanied by optional discussions, that address important themes for understanding the contemporary landscape. Engaging works are selected to spark community interest in these subjects, offering quality and aesthetic diversity beyond the commercial circuit.
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Courses
Strategic Transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean: Transformative Experiences in the 20th Century
Training Method: In-person course.
Course Language: Portuguese or Spanish.
Date: Scheduled to take place during September 2025.
Course Hours: 30 hours.
Certification: The course confers a certificate in accordance with UDESC regulations.
Syllabus
Programme: Introductory notions, concepts, and knowledge of political-strategic analysis. Geostrategic, geoeconomic, socio-cultural, and political-institutional dimensions, along with other conditioning/determinative aspects of political processes in Latin American and Caribbean territories: the relationship of continental countries with the United States, structures, dynamics, and forms of external domination; regional and international economy, structures, and dynamics of production, circulation, and consumption; socio-economic formation: state, classes, castes, estates, gender, and race; organization of civil society and expressions of cultural life; strategy, power blocks, power and counter-power, social interests and needs, socio-historical subjects, and political vanguards (their visions, perceptions, ideas, and objectives), as well as the circumstances, situations, positions, factors, and dynamics of each strategic transformation experience. Case studies. North America and the Caribbean: 1) the Mexican process and 2) the Cuban process; Central America: 3) the Guatemalan process, 4) the Nicaraguan process, 5) the Salvadoran process; South America: 6) the Chilean process, 7) the Bolivian process, 8) the Peruvian process, 9) the Colombian process, and 10) the Venezuelan process. Reflections of each process in the current context.
Course Objectives:
1.To stimulate the practice of political-strategic analysis as a means of understanding reality and improving public forms of social intervention in local, national, and international social life;
2.To convey, systematize, and reflect on the experiences of strategic transformation (modernization, reform, revolution, and counter-revolution, wars, and peace processes) in the territories of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th century;
3.To socialize the culture of struggle of the peoples of the continent, reflecting on the continuity/discontinuity, setbacks, and improvements in social development strategies.