FRIDE: HAITI: VOICES OF THE ACTORS, A RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE UN MISSION BY AMELIE GAUTHIER:21/02/08 (MaximsNews Network)</font></b>

UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 21 February 2008 -- When the international community intervened in Haiti in 2004, first by sending the multinational force and subsequently United Nations Stabilisation mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the country was neither at war nor at peace. Rather, it was in the throes of a social rebellion against an oppressor and a struggle by former military leaders to overthrow this power.

This Working Paper from FRIDE analyses the violence in Haiti and the response of the international community involved in implementing the MINUSTAH mandate. The information gathered in the interviews allows the actors to make their voices heard on many aspects of the situation in Haiti and to communicate their ideas to each other.

The following points are discussed in detail: establishing a secure and stable environment; defining the Haitian context, police reform, the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme, community-based violence reduction programme, maintaining order and restoration of the rule of law and the protection of civilians. This report also offers a series of recommendations on mandate of MINUSTAH.

This Working Paper was written in collaboration with Pierre Bonin.

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Bio author: Amélie Gauthier

MA in International Cooperation and Project Management, Ortega and Gasset Institute, Madrid; BA in International Business and Finance, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Montreal. Prior to joining FRIDE, Amélie Gauthier-Campbell worked as a political analyst for the Canadian Embassy in Madrid (2005-2006), where she had previously worked in the commercial department (2001-2002). From 2003 to 2004, she worked at Services Financiers Penson Canada, being responsible for the foreign currency market.

Amélie Gauthier-Campbell has also worked in the Hispanic-Canadian International Cooperation programme at the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (2000-2001), and has been research assistant at HEC, Montreal (1998–2000).
She was a assistant researcher for the book Perspectives from the Front Lines by George E. Irani, Vamik D. Volkan, Judy Carter. (2006).

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