23201: vedrine: Conference at M.I.T: "HAITI: MOVING FORWARD AFTER FAILED TRANSITIONS" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


THE CIS STARR FORUM
M I T    C E N T E R    F O R    I N T E R N A T I O N A L    S T U D I E S


"HAITI: MOVING FORWARD AFTER FAILED TRANSITIONS"


Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Noon to 1:30

Myrtho Bonhomme
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Haiti
Special Ambassador, Dean and Founder of The National Diplomatic Academy of
Haiti


This is the seventh time that the international community has tried to put
Haiti on the democratic track.  Ambassador Bonhomme will discuss why past
transitions have failed and why Haiti now has a chance to move forward.  MIT
Political Science Professor and CIS Associate Director Stephen Van Evera
will chair the event, which will include commentary on U.S. interventions in
Haiti and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere by MIT Political Science
Associate Professor Chappell Lawson.


MIT's Wong Auditorium
Tang Center (E51)
70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
(near the Kendall Square T stop)
on-line map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=wong


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In addition to directing the Diplomatic Academy, a privately funded
university dedicated to training students in international affairs,
Ambassador Bonhomme teaches courses on public international law,
international relations, international organizations, and diplomatic and
consular law and globalization. Before the creation of the Academy in 1995,
Ambassador Bonhomme served for more than 10 years in the foreign service of
Haiti, as Assistant Director for International Cooperation and Trade, First
Secretary at
the Haiti Mission to the U.N.; Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Haiti in
Washington D.C.; Charge d'Affairs at the Haitian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada;
General Counsul of Haiti in Montreal; and Ambassador, Permanent
Representative
of Haiti to the International Civil Aviation Organization. He also
represented Haiti at various international negotiations and conferences at
the U.N., the OAS, and the WTO.  He received his MS degree in International
Economics from the American University in Washington, D.C., and did
post-graduate studies in International Relations and Diplomacy in Europe.
Ambassador Bonhomme is a visiting professor at the Centre d'Etudes
Diplomatiques et Strategiques and l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales,
both in Paris.  He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines.

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http://web.mit.edu/cis/

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