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Public Deliberation and Social Capital: Building a Framework for Inclusive Dialogue in Haiti through Participatory-Action Research

Since the 2010 earthquake shook Haiti, there have been numerous calls for a national dialogue in the country to bring together all the parties involved in order to find solutions to Haiti’s woes. While several iterations of a national dialogue have been attempted in Haiti and abroad, more must be done to address the many social, economic, and political challenges that Haitians have faced for decades. As the situation worsens in the country, Haitians must unite to wrestle with the many issues they face and find common ground needed to rebuild a more democratic and resilient Haiti. Through a partnership with the Coalition for an Inclusive Dialogue in Haiti (The Coalition), this participatory-action dissertation explores how public deliberation and social capital can build a participant-generated framework for an inclusive dialogue in Haiti. Using deliberative mini publics, the Coalition aims to leverage the development of social capital to propose an inclusive dialogue framework that can build deliberative capacity among Haitians at home and abroad. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, deliberative forums, survey questionnaires, and focus groups, this dissertation offers several propositions on what factors can facilitate or hinder an inclusive dialogue in Haiti. Moreover, it offers insights into what a truly inclusive dialogue in Haiti could resemble. Finally, this participatory-action dissertation introduces an Inclusive Dialogue Framework, which includes the first dialogue, lakou conversations, intergroup dialogues, and citizen assemblies.
Since the 2010 earthquake shook Haiti, there have been numerous calls for a national dialogue in the country to bring together all the parties involved in order to find solutions to Haiti's woes. While several iterations of a national dialogue have been attempted in Haiti and abroad, more must be done to address the many social, economic, and political challenges that Haitians have faced for decades. As the situation worsens in the country, Haitians must unite to wrestle with the many issues they face and find common ground needed to rebuild a more democratic and resilient Haiti. Through a partnership with the Coalition for an Inclusive Dialogue in Haiti (The Coalition), this participatory-action dissertation explores how public deliberation and social capital can build a participant-generated framework for an inclusive dialogue in Haiti. Using deliberative mini publics, the Coalition aims to leverage the development of social capital to propose an inclusive dialogue framework that can build deliberative capacity among Haitians at home and abroad. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, deliberative forums, survey questionnaires, and focus groups, this dissertation offers several propositions on what factors can facilitate or hinder an inclusive dialogue in Haiti. Moreover, it offers insights into what a truly inclusive dialogue in Haiti could resemble. Finally, this participatory-action dissertation introduces an Inclusive Dialogue Framework, which includes the first dialogue, lakou conversations, intergroup dialogues, and citizen assemblies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:etd2023-1221
Date01 January 2024
CreatorsAllonce, Kimberley
PublisherSTARS
Source SetsUniversity of Central Florida
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceGraduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024
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