1. Issue Brief: What Army for Haiti?
- Author:
- Arthur Boutellis
- Publication Date:
- 11-2011
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- International Peace Institute
- Abstract:
- President Michel Martelly of Haiti was widely expected to make the creation of a new Haitian army official on November 18, 2011, on the anniversary of the last major battle for Haitian Independence in 1803. Instead, he announced the creation of a civilian-led commission that will have forty days to finalize a plan for the creation of the new army, which should be presented by January 1, 2012. The newly elected president has made reinstating the army, which was disbanded in 1995, a priority. A draft of the “Martelly plan,” dated August 2011, called for building an army of 3,500 troops that would be operational within three years and progressively take over as the UN peacekeeping force MINUSTAH withdraws.
- Topic:
- Security, Politics, and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Caribbean