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Haiti Reconstruction: U.S. Efforts Have Begun, Expanded Oversight Still to Be Implemented

Author : David Gootnick
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437986315
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Haiti Reconstruction: U.S. Efforts Have Begun, Expanded Oversight Still to Be Implemented written by David Gootnick and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Jan. 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti killed an 230,000 people and displaced 2 million more. In July 2010, the U.S. Congress appropriated more than $1 billion for reconstruction assistance, most of which was provided to the USAID and the Dept. of State. In April 2010, the Haitian gov¿t. created the Interim Haiti Recovery Comm. (IHRC) to coordinate donors, conduct strategic planning, approve reconstruction projects, and provide accountability. This report addresses: (1) the planned uses for U.S. reconstruction assist. and the amounts provided so far; (2) USAID's internal controls for overseeing U.S. funds; and (3) IHRC's progress establishing governance and oversight structures. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Haiti Reconstruction

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis Haiti Reconstruction by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection

Download or read book Haiti Reconstruction written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democratic Insecurities

Author : Erica Caple James
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520947916
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Insecurities written by Erica Caple James and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women survivors, James raises important new questions about humanitarian aid, structural violence, and political insecurity. She discusses the politics of postconflict assistance to Haiti and the challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and justice in societies that experience chronic insecurity. Similarly, she finds that efforts to promote political development and psychosocial rehabilitation may fail because of competition, strife, and corruption among the individuals and institutions that implement such initiatives.

The Power of Forgiveness: Pope Francis on Reconciliation

Author : United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781601376831
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Forgiveness: Pope Francis on Reconciliation written by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Forgiveness, Pope Francis on Reconciliation calls the reader to explore the mercy of God, received in a profound way by turning toward God in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This heartfelt collection of the Pope's reflections on the need for repentance, awareness of sin, God's divine mercy, forgiveness of others, and confession and absolution, is a transformative read for Catholics of all vocational states!

The Big Truck That Went By

Author : Jonathan M. Katz
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137323957
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Big Truck That Went By written by Jonathan M. Katz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It's most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today's conventional wisdom; that the way wealthy countries give aid makes poor countries seem irredeemably hopeless, while trapping millions in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." With coverage of Bill Clinton, who came to help lead the reconstruction; movie-star aid worker Sean Penn; Wyclef Jean; Haiti's leaders and people alike, Katz weaves a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.

Haiti After the Earthquake

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390989
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Haiti After the Earthquake written by Paul Farmer and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated physician and anthropologist offers a vivid on-the-ground account of the relief effort in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake—and issues a powerful call to action. Reprint.

Rebuilding Haiti in the Martelly Era

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Rebuilding Haiti in the Martelly Era by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics Affairs

Download or read book Rebuilding Haiti in the Martelly Era written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haiti - The Slow Road to Reconstruction: Two years after the earthquake

Author : Marc Cohen
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 1780770251
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Haiti - The Slow Road to Reconstruction: Two years after the earthquake written by Marc Cohen and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haiti: A Once-in-a-Century Chance for Change: Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity

Author : Aimee Ansari
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 1848144199
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Haiti: A Once-in-a-Century Chance for Change: Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity written by Aimee Ansari and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Black Republic

Author : Brandon R. Byrd
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296540
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Black Republic written by Brandon R. Byrd and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution. While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti's fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the "civilized" progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African Americans across the political spectrum espoused a politics of racial uplift, taking responsibility for the "improvement" of Haitian education, politics, culture, and society. They considered Haiti an uncertain experiment in black self-governance: it might succeed and vindicate the capabilities of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination or it might fail and condemn the black diasporic population to second-class status for the foreseeable future. When the United States military occupied Haiti in 1915, it created a crisis for W. E. B. Du Bois and other black activists and intellectuals who had long grappled with the meaning of Haitian independence. The resulting demand for and idea of a liberated Haiti became a cornerstone of the anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiracist radical black internationalism that flourished between World War I and World War II. Spanning the Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras, The Black Republic recovers a crucial and overlooked chapter of African American internationalism and political thought.

Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction

Author : Marc Cohen
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 1848147392
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction written by Marc Cohen and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Haitians

Author : Jean Casimir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469660490
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Haitians written by Jean Casimir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915. The Haitians also critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Here, Casimir centers the perspectives of Haiti's moun andeyo—the largely African-descended rural peasantry. Asking how these systematically marginalized and silenced people survived in the face of almost complete political disenfranchisement, Casimir identifies what he calls a counter-plantation system. Derived from Caribbean political and cultural practices, the counter-plantation encompassed consistent reliance on small-scale landholding. Casimir shows how lakou, small plots of land often inhabited by generations of the same family, were and continue to be sites of resistance even in the face of structural disadvantages originating in colonial times, some of which continue to be maintained by the Haitian government with support from outside powers.

Tectonic Shifts

Author : Mark Schuller
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565495128
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Shifts written by Mark Schuller and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital on January 12, 2010 will be remembered as one of the world’s deadliest disasters. The earthquake was a tragedy that gripped the nation-and the world. But as a disaster it also magnified the social ills that have beset this island nation that sits squarely in the United States’ diplomatic and geopolitical shadow. The quake exposed centuries of underdevelopment, misguided economic policies, and foreign aid interventions that have contributed to rampant inequality and social exclusion in Haiti. Tectonic Shiftsoffers a diverse on-the-ground set of perspectives about Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake and the aftermath that left more than 1.5 million individuals homeless. Following a critical analysis of Haiti’s heightened vulnerability as a result of centuries of foreign policy and most recently neoliberal economic policies, this book addresses a range of contemporary realities, foreign impositions, and political changes that occurred during the relief and reconstruction periods. Analysis of these realities offers tools for engaged, principled reflection and action. Essays by scholars, journalists, activists, and Haitians still on the island and those in the Diaspora highlight the many struggles that the Haitian people face today, providing lessons not only for those impacted and involved in relief, but for people engaged in struggles for justice and transformation in other parts of the world.

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti

Author : Jeb Sprague
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673032
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti written by Jeb Sprague and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic. The product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews—some of which placed the author in severe danger—and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Haiti today, and is a vivid reminder of how democratic struggles in poor countries are often met with extreme violence organized at the behest of capital.

Hope for Haiti

Author : Jesse Joshua Watson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110158761X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Hope for Haiti written by Jesse Joshua Watson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the dust settled on Port-au-Prince, hope was the last thing anybody could see. When the earth shook, his whole neighborhood disappeared. Now a boy and his mother are living in the soccer stadium, in a shelter made of tin and bedsheets, with long lines for food and water. But even with so much sorrow all around, he finds a child playing with a soccer ball made of rags. Soon many children are caught up in the magic of the game that transports them out of their bleak surroundings and into a world where anything is possible. Then the kids are given a truly wonderful gift. A soccer ball might seem simple, but really it's a powerful link between a heartbroken country's past and its hopes for the future. Jesse Joshua Watson has created an inspiring testament to the strength of the Haitian people and the promise of children.

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 0805095624
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History written by Laurent Dubois and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution—the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation; and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. Dubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. He details how the crushing indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States—including a twenty-year military occupation—further undermined Haiti's independence. At the same time, Dubois shows, the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard-won liberty alienated the nation's leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. Yet as Dubois demonstrates, the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy, creating a powerful culture insistent on autonomy and equality for all. Revealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.

The Political Economy of Disaster

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415816084
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Disaster written by Mats Lundahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international funding commitment. Mats Lundahl has written several seminal works on Haiti, and this volume brings together the best of his past work on Haiti’s economic and political history, along with a comprehensive introduction and two new chapters which bring the story right up to the present day. Together, the volume provides both historical background and explanation as to why Haiti was so badly affected by the earthquake, and to why reconstruction efforts have been ineffective this far. Lundahl argues that the two main causes can found in the interaction between the growth of the population and the destruction of the arable soil on the one hand, and in the creation of a predatory state during the nineteenth century, which still exists to this day. This book provides a comprehensive analysis, which charts these themes from the time of the arrival of Columbus in the island in 1492, to the present day. The book also deals with contemporary market and policy failures, as well as the crucial recent elections, and considers the path ahead for this impoverished nation. This book will be of huge relevance and interest not only to students and researchers in economic history, but also for all those working on development economics, development studies and American and Caribbean Studies more generally.