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Civic Education Through the Arts
It was a warm spring evening as Yves, my sociologist colleague, and I, an agricultural anthropologist, visited Remèd, a rice farmer near Acul du Nord in Northern Haiti to expand our understanding of local governance relationships. As my colleague, a … Continue reading
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Perfect Storms in Haiti and Jamaica: Community Policing is a Governance Strategy.
In many Caribbean communities over the past five years, gang wars have been increasing in number and level of casualties, exacerbating insecurity and social tensions. Jamaica and Haiti are two of the most extreme cases, though their organized crime profiles … Continue reading
Youth Civic Engagement Really Works
A widely shared sentiment among many youth during the sixties and seventies was to withdraw from society and create new communities, invent new relationships, and find new meaning to the notion of self. Social and spiritual separation led to experiences … Continue reading
The Smallest Big City in the World
Every American city has experienced its share of social, environmental, economic and political challenges. New Orleans is probably the only city that, with the possible exception of arctic snow blizzards and desert sandstorms, has exerienced them all. The citizens of … Continue reading
A World of Cities
Cultural, economic and social relations between cities are hastened by immigration, decentralization and increasing discomfort with national policies. We are increasingly becoming a world of cities, and less a world of nations. Continue reading
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Civil Society Beyond the State
Throughout the history of democracy, civil society organizations have evolved to defend and promote their members’ interests at the level of local and national policy-making, but are hardly present at the regional level. Because major policy decisions are increasingly being taken at the regional level … Continue reading
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Another Day, Another Step
Our post hurricane integrated governance and food security program in southern Haiti distributes high market value fruit trees to women farmers through their local community organizations. A successful pilot funded last December and January by concerned friends gave us some … Continue reading
Growing the Program: A New Partnership and a New Initiative
TCI is very pleased to inform our readers that we have formed a partnership with Cross Catholic Outreach (CCO), a Florida based Catholic development foundation, in support of #haitifruittrees, our integrated food security and local governance program in Haiti’s Grand … Continue reading
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A Breadfruit for Data Partnership
#caribbinstitute (The Caribbean Institute, TCI) has partnered with @TreesThatFeed (the Trees That Feed Foundation, TTFF) to strengthen our support of women in southern Haiti who are recovering from the devastation wreaked by hurricane Matthew. You can call it the Breadfruit … Continue reading
A First Hand Account of a Fruit Tree Distribution in the Grand Anse
What could I expect? Bert Laurent, a friend and Executive Chairman at The Caribbean Institute had asked me to accompany a delivery of fruit tree seedlings by truck from TCI’s nursery near Port au Prince, over sometimes challenging, rocky, mountain … Continue reading
