Archives by Tag 'time and responsibility'
Current Exit Strategy for Haiti
Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless New York Times JACMEL, Haiti — Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to [...]
Haiti: Locating the affirmative burden of responsibility
Logic and emotion It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, [...]
An app for that: The Enterra
Regeneration Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third; there must be some bond of union between them. And the fairest bond is that which makes the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines; and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato The poetic hymn “There’s [...]
Why I think it’s a great country now
Let history show “It held the line against the bad, allowing for its deconstruction, and the universalization of our economic model, to be followed, through our continued success, by the universalization of our political model.” via Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog. When lessons are learned “Germany was a country where horrible crimes were committed in [...]
Haiti: On what basis do we say no?
Earthquakes make bad laws National Post, Marni Soupcoff, Monday, January 18, 2010 “Canada’s government is suggesting that significantly relaxing requirements (family-reunification requirements, in particular) for Haitians to come here as immigrants and refugees would be a good way for us to lend a hand.” Immigrants and refugees: Who gets chosen? Soupcoff writes, “The move would [...]