Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, has suffered through centuries of disenfranchisement, poverty, slavery, environmental disasters, internecine racial prejudice, and foreign infringement. Its people won independence from France in 1804 but only at the cost of huge human and financial losses. Since then, Haiti has known little freedom or democracy. In 1991, the first truly democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was elected (with a 67% majority). Nine months later, he was deposed by a military coup d'état. During that time and the chaotic years that followed, groups of human rights observers traveled to Haiti in an attempt to record and report publically, officially, what was actually happening to the Haitian people and their institutions. Although much has been written about the country during that period, there have been no studies focused on the human rights observers who were intimately involved with the people and the country. These groups and other groups participating in similar situations have not been studied and, yet, research in that area might provide important insights in the field of social justice. It is important to identify what encourages individuals to become a part of the effort to make a positive difference in the lives of others, in the most adverse situations, the process by which human rights observers become engaged, and how that engagement affects their lives both during and after their in-country experiences. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to see if there are commonalities (e.g., socio-cultural influence, self-directed learning readiness, etc.) among the initial in-country experiences of several human rights observers and further to discover what, if any, effect those experiences had on their leadership styles. The study identified socio-cultural influences (self-directed learning readiness and familial, religious, educational impact); motivational factors; methods of processing the experience (immediate responses of connectedness/love and reasoned responses involving individual and group reflection); and multiple outcomes (spiritualty, social action, and creativity). The overarching findings included identification of transformational learning in the participants and the evolution of their leadership from the servant model into a transformational/chaos model, including reflection in and on action as an operating context. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Orientadores: Fernando Antonio Lourenço, Omar Ribeiro Thom / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:10:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge_OtavioCalegari_M.pdf: 31947336 bytes, checksum: ffd3ef2aac1c6bc64060cb2227cdfd24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender, tendo como referência inicial, mas não exclusiva, a produção intelectual haitiana e dominicana, bem como uma experiência de campo de 3 meses, as relações estabelecidas entre trabalhadores e trabalhadoras da zona franca industrial CODEVI, localizada na cidade de Ouanaminthe, fronteira entre Haiti e República Dominicana, com o mundo do trabalho, assim como outras esferas de sua vida cotidiana. As relações entre haitianos e dominicanos expressas numa cidade de fronteira e principalmente no interior da zona franca industrial CODEVI, de forte presença de capital dominicano, constituirão o eixo condutor do trabalho / Abstract: The present paper parting as initial reference, not exclusively though, from Haitian and Dominican intellectual production, as well as three months of field experiences, aims to understand relations established among workers on industrial free zone of CODEVI, located at the city of Ouanaminthe, bordering Haiti and Dominican Republic, with the reality of labor as well as other aspects of daily life. Relations among Dominicans and Haitians expressed in abordering city and mainly within the industrial free zone of CODEVI, one with strong presence of Dominican funds, constitute the axes of the present paper / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia