Issues and Analysis

Haiti, Development: Bill and Hillary – The King and Queen of Haiti

May 14, 2015

By JONATHAN M. KATZ, May 5, 2015, Politico Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military...

Media, Development: Bringing drones down to earth

May 13, 2015

irinnews.org By Caterina Pino and Obinna Anyadike KATHMANDU, 12 May 2015 (IRIN) - Disaster coverage now seems incomplete without amazing drone...

Media, Haiti: Media’s Multiple Roles in Democracy and Development

May 6, 2015

USAID, by Mark Koenig on Friday, May 1st 2015 A reporter in Yerevan, Armenia scuffles with a police officer while covering a protest against the...

Media: Open Letter to The Media, re: Nepal Earthquake

May 6, 2015

From AidSpeak Aid workers, you know how this goes. In approximately one year, the media is going too be all up in our grill. Why? Because after a...

Development: Don’t rush to Nepal to help. Learn from haiti and read this first

May 6, 2015

Guardian Newspaper, Monday 27 April 2015 , by Claire Bennett You may want to help victims of the earthquake, but they don’t need unskilled...

Haiti: How Not to Report on an Earthquake

May 6, 2015

NYT Magazine, April 28, 2015, By JONATHAN M. KATZ, author of “The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a...

Afghanistan: Progress Reported on Women’s issues in Informal Afghan-Taliban Talks

May 6, 2015

nytimes.com, by Rod Nordland, May 4, 2015 KABUL, Afghanistan — Two days of informal talks between Afghan government and Taliban representatives...

Afghanistan Reconstruction: Fact vs. Fantasy

May 6, 2015

John F. Sopko , Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City , May 5, 2015 Full Speech...

Afghanistan: Meet the Afghan Photographers Telling Their Country’s Stories

May 4, 2015

Original article found on: TIME Laurence Butet-Roch on May 1, 2015 With the strengthening of Taliban’s hold on Afghanistan in the 1990s, came the...

Hiati: Haiti’s Unsteady Land

May 4, 2015

Originally found on: Pulitzer Center By: Jacob Kushner on December 4, 2014 Unstable land is what caused the January 2010 earthquake that killed some...

On the Media: Reframing the Message

May 4, 2015

Original article found on: DEEEP “Reframing the Message” is an EU-supported training and communication project implemented by three organizations in...