Hosted by the IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Indiana University Bloomington, “Haiti’s Growing Crisis” is a roundtable with four leading voices and scholars on Haiti. This discussion on the crisis in Haiti, potential solutions, and the implications for Haiti, its neighbors, and North America takes place on Friday, March 29, 2024, from 5:00pm to 6:30pm (ET). See more information to sign up for the event below.

Description: This panel discussion of Scholars on Haiti will focus on the current escalation of gang violence in the country in recent weeks as well as the possible scenarios to resolve it.

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021, gang violence has risen in Haiti. Violence and kidnappings are at record levels. That security situation is also a major obstacle to restoring a representative government through credible elections. Today, there are no elected officials left in Haiti.

This panel discussion of Scholars on Haiti will focus on the current escalation of gang violence in the country in recent weeks as well as the possible scenarios to resolve it. March 29th also marks the 37th anniversary of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution.

Introduced by Dr. Serafin M Coronel Molina, CLACS’ Director, the speakers will be discussing Haiti’s security situation and escalating humanitarian crisis, and figure out which scenario might work best for today’s country. 

SPEAKERS

• Former ambassador Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice at University of Michigan Law School, first US ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and former assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti
• Dr. Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Professor of sociology at Brooklyn College of the The City University of New York, and founding director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute
• Mr. Brian Concannon, JD, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)
• Dr. Arturo Sotomayor, Professor at William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University

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