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28628: Wucker (announce) USIP panel on Haiti Diaspora (fwd)
From: Michele Wucker <wuckerm@yahoo.com>
This showed up in my mailbox so I thought I'd pass it along
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Haiti's Diaspora: Can it Solve Haiti's Enduring Social Conflict?
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--> Date and Time
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Haiti's Diaspora represents a rich resource of human energy and talent. Last
year, remittances from Haitians living abroad exceeded $1 billion dollars and
constituted 24 percent of Haiti's GDP.
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--> In addition to promoting the economy, could the Diaspora also
assist the Preval government in resolving Haiti's enduring social conflict?
Speakers
Marlye Gelin-Adams
CARE International
Professor Francois Pierre-Louis
Queens College, CUNY
Author of Haitians in New York City: Transnationalism and Hometown
Associations
Dumas Simeus
Chairman, Simeus Foods international, Inc., and former presidential candidate
Robert Perito, U.S. Institute of Peace, Moderator
RSVP To RSVP, please send your name, affiliation, daytime phone number,
and
name of the event to Greg Maly at gmaly@usip.org.
more info at http://www.usip.org/events/2006/0725_haiti_diaspora.html
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