The Caribbean Council’s Chris Bennett and members recently attended a Haiti event at Parliament with the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group). 

This meeting titled; “Haiti: A way forward? – Towards a Haitian-led programme of action”, looked at the current developments in Haiti and the necessary solutions to overcome them for the long-term with Haitian led action. 

“Delegates from across all political parties in Parliament, from the business community, charities, education and academia joined the All Party Parliamentary Group on Haiti to hear from Dr Herns Marcelin, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge University.  Dr Herns Marcelin addressed how new thinking, from both the international community and within Haiti, was required to support Haiti to rebuild its systems of governance and ensure a sovereign future in which all of its citizens have a stake and which supports rather than undermines the Haitian state.   The current situation was untenable.”

Keynote Speaker:  Professor Louis Herns Marcelin

Professor of Social Sciences, University of Miami and Chancellor, Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development, INURED.

Professor Louis Herns Marcelin is Associate Dean for Program Development and Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Miami and Chancellor of the Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development, INURED. He is the co-founder and director of the Global Health and Society, an interdisciplinary and cross-campus graduate program at the University of Miami.

He has conducted extensive field research on family, kinship, and religious practices in rural and urban areas in the Caribbean and Latin America with focuses on Haiti, Jamaica and Brazil. In furtherance of his research interests, he was awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research grants to implement the Haitian Adolescent Study over 13 years to investigate the intersections of marginalization, health risks, drug use, gang violence, and immigration processes in South Florida. In 2007, he led the creation of the Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED) in Haiti, a transdisciplinary institute with the mission to contribute to the development of high-level research and scientific training in Haiti and the Caribbean.

Thank you to our members for joining this informative event.  

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