Haiti, Now and Next
In response to the recent devastation and tragedy in Haiti it is easy to lose sight of issues that loom only slightly over the horizon. With this web forum we are trying to bring these into view.
Haiti is an alarming reminder that natural disasters have more devastating consequences where physical infrastructure is weak, where institutions are problematic, and where there is a lot of poverty. So trying to foster development is also a response to disaster. How humanitarian assistance is administered may make it more or less conducive to longer term development, may make a transition from one set of actors (emergency responders) to another (development aid agencies) go more smoothly, may lead to better preparedness for the next time.
The SSRC has asked people we believe are deeply reflective about the situation in Haiti to share their thoughts about the present moment and its relationship to humanitarian assistance and transitions to development. This collection of postings is the result of that effort.
APRIL 2011 UPDATE:
Written Presentation to the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission
by William O’Neill
Contents
- Introduction: When Is Disaster Intolerable?
- Beyond the Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call for Haiti
- Country, City, Service
- Cracks of Gender Inequality: Haitian Women After the Earthquake
- Haiti: Can Catastrophe Spur Progress?
- Haiti Update
- Haiti and the International System: The Need for New Organizational Lending Formats
- Haiti and the Unseen World
- Haiti’s Earthquake and the Politics of Distribution
- Hope Admist Devastation: Towards a New Haitian State
- In the Aftermath of the Earthquake: Rebuilding to Rebalance Haiti
- Mobilize the Diaspora for the Reconstruction of Haiti
- Moving Beyond Disaster to Build a Durable Future in Haiti
- Rebuilding Haiti: The Next Two Hundred Years
- Rebuilding Haiti, Rebuilding the Fragile State Framework
- Reckoning in Haiti
- Run From the Earthquake, Fall Into the Abyss: A Léogane Paradox
- State Bricolage
- Donate to Help Haiti
by Craig Calhoun
by Alex Dupuy
by Ferentz Lafargue
By Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
by William O’Neill
by William O’Neill
by Saskia Sassen
by Elizabeth McAlister
by Andrew Apter
by Robert Fatton Jr.
by Robert Maguire
by Dilip Ratha
by Greg Beckett
by J. Michael Dash
By Yasmine Shamsie
by Jean Casimir and Laurent Dubois
by Karen Richman
by Chelsey Kivland