Professor Quigley Question

What steps are being taken to improve and monitor infrastructure to ensure that new buildings are being constructed to a certain standard to help prevent the amount of damage in the event of a future earthquake unlike the previously constructed buildings?

Professor Quigley Question

What types of steps need to be taken in order to help make Haitian government more fair and less corrupt? Are any of these steps being taken or implemented today and how much progress has been made in the last few years?

Professor Quigly Question

How long do you think it will be unitil "the country’s leaders and the international community embrace and enforce human rights in the form of both positive and negative rights found in the Haitian Constitution and international treaties and governing documents.", and why?

Professor Quigley Question

Regarding the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Wyclef Jean the rap singer actually created his own charity which is now found to be bankrupt and left a trail of debt. The people of Haiti did not gain much from his charity even though it captured the international attention, especially the young people. Many times when a disaster hit there will always be charities created to help the victims. Do you think these charities are the most effective forms of help that the international community can provide for disaster or war victims? Or are there better ways that people can do to actually help?

Professor Quigley Question

In the introduction it said that the only way for Haiti to escape the cycle of despair and lawlessness is for the country's leaders to enforce human rights. Other than this obvious first step, what would you say would be the most effective and influential actions for people to take right now? And how would these actions help the people of haiti, and help spread the awareness of the lack of human rights in this country?

Professor Quigley questions

Why do you think some Haitians support Baby Doc's son "J.C."? Are the Haitians' expectations of rule of law so low that they hope that the generation of Duvalier's can turn things around? Is their collective memory more shortlived than other cultures? Do they remember Baby Doc's redeeming qualities over his atrocious ones? Is there propaganda involved in swaying public opinion in his favor?

Progress Report #4 - Refugees

Progress Report #4: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Sandhya Sridhar, Zoe Lewis, Cloe Pippin, Austin Rose)
à Sources:

1.) "In Pictures: Syria Before the Syrian Civil War." Demotix. Demotix, 25 July 2010. Web. 20 Sept.

2012. <http://www.demotix.com/news/1354869/pictures-syria-syrian-civil-war#media-1354808>.

2.) "Palestinian Refugees from Iraq Resettle in Chile." The Electronic Intifada. Electronic Intifada, 8 Apr.

2008. Web. 23 Sept. 2012. <http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-refugees-iraq-resettled-chile/7457>.

3.) Universal Declaration of Human Rights

4.) http://eycb.coe.int/domino/04.html (Refugee transcript)

5.) Peace Building in Violent Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Post-Oslo People-to-People Activities

Ifat Maoz

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society , Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring, 2004), pp. 563-574

à Outline:

- Austin introduce

- Austin video

- Cloe introduce prezi

- Prezi (Cloe, Austin, Zoe, Sandhya)

- Sandhya introduce video (with current statistics)

- Rahman video

- Cloe introduce picture powerpoint and skit

- Skit (Cloe, Zoe, Austin, Sandhya)

- Zoe introduce call to action of refugee agency

- Cloe present refugee agency testimony

- Zoe transition into presenting flyers

- Sandhya transition into questions

à Findings: We researched the history of the conflict, learned what would be the most impactful actions that we can do as students, and we realized the extent of how this conflict affects a basic human rights of people, including Palestinians.
à We are using self-created videos, a filmed interview, pictures, scholarly articles, and NGO websites.