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Reporting on climate change from Bonn
Expert on climate change Adriana Valenzuela talks on climate change issues in Latin America and her future work. Litsen to her interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsoIyrvNrM
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Europe et Leadership: Du foot ball a l’economie
Je suis arrive a Paris ce matin apres une semaine a Bonn et une escale d’une heure a Londres. Paris ne rit pas. Aujour’hui, c’est la greve. Je change 200 dollars en euro. L’agent de change me remet 137 euros et 70 centimes. Je prends le train de l’aeroport Charles de Guale vers la gare du Nord.…
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A la recherche de Lufthansa!
Can you I borrow your pen , please? Je viens de demander à la dame qui essuyait les bancs au terminal de Continental airlines a l’aéroport de Fort-Lauderdale de me passer sa plume. Elle me l’a donnee. Une papermate noir qui ecrit bleu. Je suis bien content parce que je voulais prendre des notes sur mon voyage.…
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Leadership, Assistance and Occupation: lessons from Afghanistan!
“If we don’t stand for our sovereignty, it won’t take long before that assistance turns into an occupation”, said Afghan President criticizing the US and others. As a global leadership scholar, I am studying American soft power leadership and its practices on the global world in general and in Haiti in particular. Shortly after the…
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Caricom’s quest for leadership role in Haiti
My topic for this post is Haiti amidst the global softpower and global leadership in the rebuilding process. I just had a chat with a friend about this topic and he mentioned the internet and facebook as the main global softpowers. Which I disagree, understanding that these are medias and not the message. Haiti is to share its rebuilding process with…
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Obama called Haitians to wipe away tears and start building and Preval recommended a Trust Fund
I just went on the White House web site to follow Preval/Obama meeting. The main point I get from this is Obama is calling Haitians to stand up and move forward and Preval is pledging for a Donnors Trust Fund on Haiti. “It is time to wipe away the tears; it is time for Haiti…
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TRAUMA TRAINING FOR MEDIA SUPPORTS HAITIAN RECOVERY
Haitian Media Leaders Meet with Global Experts in Post-Disaster Coverage Port au Prince, HAITI, 6 March 2010 – Specialists from Haiti, the United States and France convened by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma offer lessons learned from media in other global disasters, as senior executives of leading media companies meet in Port au Prince…
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Leçons de leadership du Chili
Le Chili, comme Haiti, fait face à l’après séisme . Je suis la réponse chilienne et j’ai appris quelques leçons que je veux bien patager. 1.-Préparation Les Chiliens étaient prêts et avaient des informations sur le comportement à adopter en cas de tremblement de terre. Ce qui a considérablement réduit les dégats en pertes de vie…
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Conversation with Christianna Amanpour
It was hot and very hot on the tarmac of the haitian Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince. Military planes from the US, Canada, Venezuela landed and took off one after the other leaving and bringing noise to kill your ear drum. At 5:10 pm local EST, I was told that my charter flight to Santo…
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HAITI’s OVERVIEW SITUATION: AN OCHA UPDATE
The Government is reporting that 112,392 have died and 196,501 people have been injured by the earthquake. Some 262,901 people have left the earthquake-affected areas for departments in the north and west, according to the Government. The number of displaced people ranges from 800,000 to one million. Relief supplies are being distributed throughout affected areas but…
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