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The United Nations and Spain in Haiti

Mariano Aguirre
February 2006

With the aid of a flexible reading of Haiti's election law, Rene Preval became the country's president, hopefully bringing some stability to the island. Haiti's instability is a consequence of its colonial past, exacerbated by the effects of globalisation. If the Brazilian-led UN peacekeeping operation is not extended beyond six months, when the current mission expires, Haiti could recede into chaos, predicts Aguirre.

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With the aid of a flexible reading of Haiti's election law, Rene Preval became the country's president, hopefully bringing some stability to the island. Haiti's instability is a consequence of its colonial past, exacerbated by the effects of globalisation. If the Brazilian-led UN peacekeeping operation is not extended beyond six months, when the current mission expires, Haiti could recede into chaos, predicts Aguirre.

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Mariano Aguirre

Director of the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref)

Mariano Aguirre is a journalist and analyst with considerable expertise on peacebuilding, crisis of the state, humanitarian action, conflict and development, and post-conflict rehabilitation. 

Prior to his work for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Center, he was director of the peace, security and human rights area at the Spanish think-tank FRIDE.

Aguirre is the author, contributor and editor of several books, among them:  La ideología neimperial: La crisis de EEUU con Irak (Icaria/TNI/CIP 2003), co-authored with Phyllis Bennis and  "Humanitarian intervention & us hegemony: a reconceptualization" in Achin Vanaik (Ed.), Selling US Wars, Interlink publishing / Transnational Institute (2007).

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