Media Advisory: Haiti -- Putting the Current Crisis in Perspective

3/8/2004

From: Andrew Stober of the Center for Global Development, 202-416-0705; e-mail: astober@cgdev.org

News Advisory:

What: Haiti: Putting the Current Crisis in Perspective

Who:

-- Dan Erikson Director, Caribbean Projects Inter-American Dialogue on what factors led to Haiti's current crisis?

-- Frederick Barton Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Post- Conflict Re-construction Project Center for Strategic and International Studies and former director of the Office of Transition Initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. (1994-1999) on what are the most important priorities for rebuilding Haiti; and how can the United States avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1994 intervention and its aftermath?

-- Gayle Smith Senior Fellow Center for American Progress and former Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council on why does getting it right this time matter for U.S. national security?

With moderator

Jeremy Weinstein Research Fellow Center for Global Development

Where: Peter G. Peterson Conference Center (IIE), 1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington D.C.

When: Wednesday, March 10, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Contact and RSVP: Andrew Stober, e-mail: astober@cgdev.org; phone: 202-416-0705