Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and InterAction

 

 

 

 

1 Year After Haiti Earthquake

 

Event Summary

As the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti approaches, the government and people of Haiti continue to experience a multitude of hardships. Massive displacement, a devastated infrastructure and the recent outbreak of cholera have all spurred the international humanitarian community into action. However, even with the mobilization of major relief efforts, many problems remain that will challenge reconstruction efforts for years to come.

 

PHOTO: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/haiti-a-year-after-the-quake.html 

 

 

Event Information

When

Monday, January 10, 2011
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Where

 

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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Event Materials

 

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

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Phone: 202.797.6105

 

 

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Bern Project on Internal Displacement and InterAction

 

EVENT: January 10, 2011

 

 

On January 10, the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and InterAction will host a discussion marking the anniversary of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Sean Penn, founder of the J/P Haitian Relief Organization and Paul Weisenfeld, USAID senior deputy assistant administrator, will open the discussion, offering their individual assessments of the current situation in Haiti. Following their remarks, Samuel A. Worthington, president and CEO of InterAction; Elizabeth Ferris, senior fellow at Brookings; and Claude Jeudy, Haiti national director at Habitat for Humanity; will each offer insights based on their recent trips to the island nation.

 

 

 

 

Senior Fellow Theodore Piccone, deputy director of Foreign Policy at Brookings, will moderate the discussion.

 

After the program, the panelists will take questions from the audience.

 

 

Participants

Moderator

Ted Piccone

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Foreign Policy

 

Featured Speakers

Sean Penn

Founder, J/P Haitian Relief Organization

Paul Weisenfeld

Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, USAID

 

Discussants

Samuel A. Worthington

President and CEO, InterAction

Elizabeth Ferris

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

Claude Jeudy

Haiti National Director, Habitat for Humanity

 

 

Host of Event: http://www.brookings.edu/