The UN Stabilisation Mission needs time

Speaking at the CIDOB Foundation, the researcher Johanna Mendelson Forman highlighted the need for the United Nations to continue with its efforts in Haiti, as well as stressing that the mission should be given time, as only a long-term process would be successful. The researcher, who works with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as advisor to the UN Mission in Haiti, sent out this message both to Haiti and to the international community during her titled Haiti: the role of the UN and the future of MINUSTAH. 

In 2004, after concluding that the situation in Haiti continued to represent a threat to peace and security in the region, the UN Security Council decided to establish the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which went from being a peace mission to a development mission to America’s poorest nation. During the lecture, Dr. Mendelson analysed Haiti's evolution as a result of the missions, the central role played by Latin America’s armed forces and the implications of this factor for their respective relations with the United States and other states. Mendelson also spoke about the difficulties that continued to threaten the country's security and stability and the main conditions required for Haiti’s recent positive evolution to continue.