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Time to Move From a Lose-Lose #Strategy to a Win-Win Strategy Regarding #Haiti
Washington DC, Dec. 12, 2022 The speculative discussion about a foreign military or #police_action against the #gangs is a lose-lose proposition. If such an intervention were to be fully successful at dismantling the gangs, it would unfortunately undermine Haiti’s law enforcement credibility among its own … Continue reading
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Strengthening the Rule of Law Requires a National Dialog on the Constitution. And That Requires Facilitated Listening.
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Strengthening the Rule of Law Requires a National Dialog on the Constitution. And That Requires Facilitated Listening.
Haiti is not the only country with a frail and easily abused Constitution. And besides the ease with which the structures and processes of governance have been derailed, their sheer cost is a burden to the Haitian state and a threat … Continue reading
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Tagged Building trust, Governance, Haiti Constitution, National Dialog, Rule of Law
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Youth Members are an Achilles Heel of Haiti’s Gangs
Using young gang members to reduce gang power and rebuild communities. Continue reading
The Story Hunters
The Story Hunters An Anthropologist’s Conversation with a Caribbean Peasant Rice Farmer Inspires an Innovative Civic Project. The author, Bertrand Laurent, is an anthropologist who works on governance, workforce development and crime reduction in the Caribbean. He is Executive Chair … Continue reading
Environmental Governance and the Anthropocene
Bertrand Laurent, January 18, 2022 Since Andrew Revkin, the renowned environmental journalist, introduced the concept of an Anthropocene Epoch in 1992, it has been under healthy debate among geologists, environmentalists, and biologists. The Anthropocene is a period of time defined … Continue reading
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Unattached Urban Youth in Haiti and Jamaica
There’s a great deal of misunderstanding, especially among foreigners, about the difference between #gangs and #krews in Jamaica and the difference between gangs and #baz in Haiti. The two groups, in both countries, involve young #unattached_urban_males but the krews and baz are different phenomena. … Continue reading
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Women In the Traditional Caribbean Agricultural Market Chain
In much of the Caribbean, women provide the link between the farm and the traditional market place. Most market stalls are run by women, who are also a central feature of the agricultural economy and value chain. In Dominica and … Continue reading
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The Caribbean Institute for Sustainable Development 