Haiti, the first independent black republic (1804), has known from 1993 until today, many support and peace-keeping missions. However, it has not been able to achieve stability. On the contrary, this republic has been eroded by internal conflicts, buried under the weight of external debt, and crippled by social fracturing and the nefarious effects of neoliberal policies, extreme poverty, and problems such as drug trafficking, ecological devastation, and more. In his new book, Haïti: Le Maintien de la paix en Amérique Centrale et dans les Caraïbes [Haiti: Peacekeeping in Central America and the Caribbean] (March 2009), Monesty Junior Fanfil offers a critical study of the peace-keeping mechanisms and a detailed analysis of the Haitian crisis.
Born in Haiti, Monesty Junior Fanfil is an economist with a doctoral degree in Law (University of Paris – Sorbonne). He has had many years of experience in research institutes, multinational firms, and international organizations. He is a researcher at the Center for Defense and Civil Security Studies (Chaumont) [Centre d'études de défense et de sécurité civile] and he collaborates with the Université de Lumiere in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At the latter, he has established a research department for the study of mediation and conflict resolution. He is also co-director and lawyer at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Juridic Competence and Performance (Paris) [l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Juridiques Compétence et Performance], where he leads research projects and law seminars focusing on international contracts and the effects of hydrocarbons.
For review, see http://www.operationspaix.net/Haiti-le-maintien-de-la-paix-en
For more information on the author, see www.operationspaix.net/FANFIL-Monesty-Junior
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Photograph of peacekeeping troops in Haiti from www.pbase.com/perrona/image/56934323
