Gorczeski, Vinicius (2017) A communitarian solution for Haiti’s security: Lessons from Rio de Janeiros’ pacifying police. Working Paper. -. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Haiti, a small country in the Caribbean, is a symbol of violence and lack of state presence. The police forces operating in the country have long done little to restore peace and are seen as illegitimate by locals. Multiple international attempts failed to control an escalating trajectory of violence, which have long contributed to undermining the capacity of the Haitian government to build up its own structures to react to violence. This paper will offer tentative solutions to unite promising, but underdeveloped ideas experimented in Haiti to solve violent episodes with a communitarian approach to dealing with violence. It does so by analyzing the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program, adopted by the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to counter structured violence and insecurity, and how its best practices can be adopted in the Haitian context. Rather than solving major structural problems driving violence in a weak state, the experimental solution put forward for Haiti works toward empowering part of local government’s institutions to build up actions in order to alleviate immediate violent episodes that, if successful, could be scaled-up as policy solutions.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Title in English: | A communitarian solution for Haiti’s security: Lessons from Rio de Janeiros’ pacifying police |
| Keywords: | Haiti, State-building, NGOs, Civil Society, Rio de Janeiro, Pacifying police, international relations, peace-building, public policy, conflicts |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Divisions: | Institute for Political Science |
| Depositing User: | Gorczeski Vinicius |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2019 08:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2019 08:04 |
| URI: | https://openarchive.tk.mta.hu/id/eprint/407 |
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