Silencing the Guns in Haiti
Silencing the Guns in Haiti

Author: Irwin P. Stotzky

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-06-15

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780226776279

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Silencing the Guns in Haiti traces Haiti's halting and uncertain quest for democracy from the perspective of someone who played a leading part in every stage of that process. "A provocative study of the prospects for the rule of law in Haiti."—Marilyn Bowden, Miami Today "[Stotzky] deepens insights into the contradictory obstacles to democratic governance in Haiti."—Library Journal "Controversial and stimulating."—Choice "Lucid and informative. . . . Stotzky gives readers a good foundation for understanding the pressures facing the impoverished but determined Caribbean island."—Islands

Silencing the Guns in Haiti
Silencing the Guns in Haiti

Author: Irwin P. Stotzky

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-12-08

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780226776262

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The path to democracy in Haiti is complicated by these questions, which are of primary importance for the Preval government as it attempts to alter Haitian society and inculcate in its citizens respect for the rule of law and the democratic process.

Storming the Court
Storming the Court

Author: Brandt Goldstein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-12-12

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1416535152

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Subtitle in hardcover printing: How a band of Yale law students sued the President--and won.

The Politics of Acknowledgement
The Politics of Acknowledgement

Author: Joanna R. Quinn

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0774859598

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Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm – by both victims and perpetrators – must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion.

Latin American Politics And Development, Fifth Edition
Latin American Politics And Development, Fifth Edition

Author: Howard J. Wiarda

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-06

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0429711190

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This book offers a region-wide overview of the patterns and processes of Latin American history, politics, society, and development. It provides a detailed country-by-country treatment and unique features of all Latin American countries.

Human Rights in the Americas
Human Rights in the Americas

Author: James T. Lawrence

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781590339343

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The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Americas and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.

Clinton in Haiti
Clinton in Haiti

Author: P. Girard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-12-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1403979316

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The book focuses on Aristide's political career, emphasizing his strategizing, compromising and dealing with the Clinton administration. In his presentation of the conflict, Girard carefully balances Aristide's and Clinton's needs, and the demands and moral positions the leaders make against each other - the result is that each leader and his constituency comes to life, and their maneuverings and decisions become engaging and meaningful. While Girard focuses on the conflict itself and the foreign policy dynamics at play between Haiti and the US, he also paints a compelling picture of contemporary Haiti and delineates with great clarity the tensions which led to recent violence and the deposition of Aristide.

Historical Dictionary of Haiti
Historical Dictionary of Haiti

Author: Fequiere Vilsaint

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-08-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1538127539

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This book covers the history of Haiti starting in 1492 with the initial European landing of the island to the present day. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804 following the only successful slave evolution in the Americas. As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Haiti became the first independent Latin American nation and the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States. Throughout its history it has suffered political violence, and a devastating earthquake which killed over 300,000 people. Historical Dictionary of Haiti, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Haiti.

Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti

Author: Jeb Sprague

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1583673032

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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.

Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights
Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights

Author: Harold Hongju Koh

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0300128738

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In this important collection of writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide array of issues that confront societies undergoing a transition to democratic rule. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in international human rights law and policy, the contributors continue discussions that were begun with the late Argentine philosopher-lawyer Carlos Santiago Nino, then extend those conversations in new directions inspired by their own and Nino's work. The book focuses on some of the key questions that confront the international human rights movement today. What is the moral justification for the concept and content of universal human rights? What is the relationship among nation-building, constitutionalism, and democracy? What are the political implications for a conception of universal human rights? What is the relationship between moral principles and political practice? How should a society confront what Kant called radical evil? And how does a successor regime justly and practically hold a prior regime accountable for gross violations of human rights?