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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
Perfect Storms in Haiti and Jamaica: Community Policing is a Governance Strategy.
By Bertrand Laurent @BHLaurent1 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 … 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
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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Citizen Engagement in Community Development
The difference between a subject and a citizen is the type of governance that binds the citizen to the polity. The citizen has a stake in the polity through participation, representation and the right of oversight. The citizen’s right to oversee … Continue reading
Citizen or Stakeholder: What’s the Difference?
Engaged stakeholders can be key to addressing specific problems in their community. But it is engaged citizens that are agents of transformative change in the community, making the solutions sustainable. Community development efforts usually focus on the most visible problems such … Continue reading
Using An African Tradition to Build Civic Engagement
The theme of this blogsite is “Sustainable development by maximizing stakeholder engagement.” This theme maintains the idea that in order for solutions to be sustainable, as many stakeholders as possible must be involved. In other words, the greater the engagement of … Continue reading
Engaging Youth to Reduce Crime
A new model builds youth civic engagement to fight crime The people who can best solve the problems of communities are usually members of those very communities. The problem is that they are rarely empowered or equipped to be effective … Continue reading
The Caribbean Institute for Sustainable Development 