Haiti 2007
During the week of 14 – 20 January 2007, sixteen students and two faculty members from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) took the second Conflict Management Field Trip to Haiti in search of answers to the question, “How to explain the endemic conflict in Haiti?”. They interviewed some 30 individuals ranging from President René Préval and Prime Minister Alexis to a score of civic leaders (all unemployed) in the newly cleared gang quarter of Bel Air, as well as Archbishop Louis Kébreau, arch-houngan Max Beauvoir and many others. Each student was asked to address the question using a particular term of analysis; producing a set of chapters which are available here in .pdf format as a comprehensive report. |