Paul Camacho University of Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Paul R. Camacho retired from the University of Massachusetts in 2010 His most recent work, “Soft Power: The Turkish Effort in Somalia”, appears in the Turkish Journal, the GLOBAL, in 2015. He has been conducting research on Somalia and was a participant in the April 2014 National Conference on Internal Security in Mogadishu. He has developed a series of research papers on Somalia for IUS conferences over the past three years, focusing on reconstruction of the Somali National Army and social and economic development. Dr. Camacho served as a non-commissioned officer in the 9th Marine Regiment in Vietnam and was wounded in action.