Our Relationship with Aid

Read our blog post "Haiti Inside Disaster: Music in the Camps" on TVO.org: http://bit.ly/bKCRBS

What is the first world's relationship with humanitarian aid? How much of what we give and what we do is motivated by guilt? Are our humanitarian efforts too paternalistic?

Guests:

Gepsie M. Metellus is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Sant La, the Haitian Neighborhood Centre.

Chantalle Verna is assistant professor of History and International Relations at Florida International University.

Todd Moss is Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Elizabeth Abbott is a research associate at the University of Toronto, Trinity College, and author of Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy. For more information go to elizabethabbott.ca.

Janice Stein is TVO's Foreign Affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

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