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Author Heine, Jorge

Title Fixing Haiti : MINUSTAH and Beyond
Published Shibuya-ku : United Nations University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and beyond; Endorsements; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Haiti's governance challenges and the international community; Haiti as a fragile state; The Préval administration; A Marshall Plan for Haiti?; The response; Which way forward?; Haiti's governance challenges; A new international response?; Fixing Haiti; Looking ahead; Notes; References; Part I: Haiti's governance challenges; 1 External shocks to fragile states: Building resilience in Haiti; Haiti's vulnerability and fragility
Three external shocksFood and fuel crisis; Natural disasters; Global financial turmoil; Challenges for donors; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 Haiti's unending crisis of governance: Food, the constitution and the struggle for power; Postscript (October 2010); Notes; References; 3 The legacy of the 1987 constitution: Reform or renewal?; Introduction; The making of the 1987 constitution; A reasonable plea for revision; References; 4 Haiti: Malversive state and teetering nation; Historical implications; Territorial security; Economy and structural imbalance
The Boyer government and the annexation of Santo DomingoThe indemnity and post-unification aspirations; The 1842 earthquake and rupture; The modern state; Préval's leadership and natural disasters; Préval's political legacy and political strategy; Misreading Préval; References; 5 Reforming the Haitian national police: From stabilization to consolidation; The political context; CIVPOL and the HNP; Achieving local ownership; Security after the earthquake; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: The United Nations at work; 6 The "MINUSTAH experience."
International engagement and Haiti's governance challenges since 1989What has changed since 1993 to 1996, and what are the current challenges?; The assertion of Latin America on the global stage; Haiti has changed; Peacekeeping has changed; The "missing link": Transition from peacekeeping/peacebuilding to development or to"securing development"; The socio-economic dilemma or "securing development"; Pressing factors for lasting stability and development; Conclusion; References; 7 Peace operations: On the importance of perceiving versus just seeing; Introduction; From great to grim
MINUSTAH and the long road to electionsKnowing where one stands; Team work is a must; When structure "destructures"; Applying a suitable strategy; MINUSTAH's success; Keeping the UN mandate in sight; Notes; Reference; 8 Latin American peacekeeping: A new era of regional cooperation; Introduction; After the Cold War: Transforming the armed forces; International recognition and improved morale; Peacekeeping training centres; The US and UN peace operations in Haiti, 1994 -2008; Collaboration: The evolution of "the 2 × 4 process"; Regional debate; Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix
Summary Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Portau-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti r
Notes 9 UNPKO and the Latin American forces
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Subject United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces -- Haiti
SUBJECT United Nations. fast (OCoLC)fst00530351
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. fast (OCoLC)fst01795057
Subject Economic assistance -- Haiti
Failed states -- Haiti
Peace-building -- Haiti -- International cooperation
Technical assistance -- Haiti
Economic assistance.
Failed states.
Peacekeeping forces.
Politics and government.
Technical assistance.
SUBJECT Haiti -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Haiti.
Form Electronic book
Author Thompson, Andrew
ISBN 9789280871661
9280871668