Send Print Share

Archive / Project Report

Vulnerability and causes of fragility in Haiti

03/03/2010 By Amélie Gauthier, Madalena Mendonça Moita

Haiti’s democratic transition began in 1986 after Jean-Claude Duvalier went into exile. However, democracy still has not been consolidated in Haiti; instead remaining dysfunctional.

The end of the dictatorship was supposed to promise freedom, respect of human rights, economic growth and better living conditions for Haitians. But during the past two decades, struggles for power, turbulent and fraudulent elections, a military coup and the constant violence by armed political groups have prevented any significant progress in the construction of a functioning democracy.

Download the full version of this publication, available in English (98 kB)

Projects

Fragile States
To read or listen to the comments of our experts in the media about this and other topics, please visit our Press section.

Keywords

Civil society Democratic control Fragile state Haiti Latin America & Caribbean

Related publications

• The Spanish humanitarian response in Haiti
• A Haiti facing grand challenges
• Brazil in Haiti: debate over the peacekeeping mission
• Food crisis in Haiti: exposing key problems in the process of stabilisation
• Haiti and the international donor community
• Haiti: From the "Pearl of the Antilles" to desolation
• Haiti: the sour grapes of corruption
• Haiti: voices of the actors, a research project on the UN mission
• Moral and political grounds for the UN mission in Haiti
• Security in Haiti
• South American Intervention in Haiti
• The food crisis in Haiti: a ruptured process?
• The UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti: analysis and recommendations for future mandates of the Mission
• The UN' s notion of peace in Haiti and Guatemala
• The United Nations and Spain in Haiti

Bio author: Amélie Gauthier

Amélie Gauthier has an MA in International Cooperation and Project Management from the Ortega and Gasset Institute in Madrid and a BA in International Business and Finance from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in Montreal. Prior to joining FRIDE, Amélie worked as a political analyst for the Canadian Embassy in Madrid (2005-2006).

Bio author: Madalena Mendonça Moita

Currently undertaking a PhD in Political Conflict and Peace Processes, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University Complutense of Madrid; MA in Peace and War Studies in New International Relations, University Autónoma of Lisbon; and BA in Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of New Lisbon. Has been an intern at "Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia"; has had internships as Research Assistant at the international studies centre Observatorio de Relaciones Exteriores of the University Autónoma of Lisbon (January 2003-September 2004); and has held secretarial and receptionist positions, and assistant to the organisation of events and conferences at "Hospedeiras de Portugal" (1998-2001) and "Casa Branca" (2001-2003).