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Beyond Relief: Council on Foreign Relations Haiti panel Feb 18

Video, audio, and transcript from “Beyond Relief: Helping Haiti,” a Council on Foreign Relations panel discussion in which Michele participated February 18, 2010.

Beyond Relief: Helping Haiti (Transcript)
Beyond Relief: Helping Haiti (Audio)

Speakers:
Pamela Cox, Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank Group
Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World [...]

Slate.fr: Les Haïtiens doivent être partie prenante de la reconstruction

Les Haïtiens doivent être partie prenante de la reconstruction
Il faut à tout prix éviter de refaire les erreurs du passé et utiliser la reconstruction comme une occasion d’engager la société civile haïtienne…..

Par Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker est la directrice exécutive du World Policy Institute (Institut des politiques mondiales) et l’auteure de Why the Cocks Fight: [...]

Toronto Star Jan 23-This little (Creole) piggy

This little (Creole) piggy once stood for Haitian pride
That fact should be top of mind as leaders gather in Montreal this week to plan country’s rebuilding
by Kenneth Kidd
follow this link for the full story from the Toronto Star.
My two cents:
The danger, says Michele Wucker, executive director of the World Policy Institute in New [...]

Worldfocus Radio Jan 21 –Haiti and DR, Unequal Neighbors

On January 21. I appeared with Marselha Gonçalves Margerin of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights on a Worldfocus Radio segment on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, hosted by Martin Savidge. Follow the link for audio and comments.

Tags: Dominican Republic, earthquake, Haiti, history, international policy, Latin America, migration

Recent NPR appearances -Latino USA, Talk of the Nation

Here are links to my recent appearances on National Public Radio talking about the Haiti earthquake and Dominican-Haitian relations.
Latino USA, January 21 The Haiti Tragedy (scroll down to  Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Latin America)
Talk of the Nation, January 25: To Rebuild, Put Haitians in the Lead

Tags: Dominican Republic, earthquake, Haiti, international development, international policy, [...]

The Agenda with Steve Paikin Friday January 15

Video from my appearance on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO Canada, from Friday January 15th, discussing Haiti with Gage Averill, Elizabeth Abbott, Chantalle Verna, and Kara McDonald.

Tags: Dominican Republic, Haiti, international policy

Laura Flanders GritTV Tuesday, January 19

Video clip from my appearance on Laura Flanders’s show, GritTV Tuesday, January 19, along with Rodney Leon and Bill Fletcher Jr. discussing priorities as Haiti rebuilds.

Tags: Dominican Republic, Haiti, international, international policy

World Policy Blog: Tremors Across Hispaniola Jan 18

From today’s World Policy Blog:
Michele Wucker: Tremors Felt Across the Island from Haiti
Tremors from the January 12 earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, reached all the way to the Dominican Republic, which shares the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. In the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, new high-rise apartment buildings that have gone [...]

Workshop for Ethics and Business Luncheon

Workshop for Ethics and Business Luncheon

The video above is an excerpt only; for the full panel discussion click HERE
Podcast: Click here
Description: A stimulating preface to the critical global political, social, and economic shifts in the year ahead  -with live webcast
Time: 12:00 noon to 2 p.m.
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Location: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International [...]

Great Expectations: Challenges for the Next Secretary of State

Here’s a blog post done for the Women’s Media Center on the international policy challenges facing Hillary Clinton, published November 25, 2008.
http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/112508.html
The piece was re-posted widely.

Tags: foreign policy, global interdependence, Hillary Clinton, international policy, politics, soft power, U.S. global role