Abstract
Walby and Monaghan have argued (2011) that security assistance is the ‘dark side’ of relations between Canada and Haiti. From their viewpoint, Canada has contributed to Haiti's ‘securitization’ by reinforcing the police, prisons and border controls at the expense of human rights and development. This paper offers a more historically-grounded analysis, first by showing how the situation in Haiti and Canadian security assistance improved after 2006. Then it locates security assistance in Ottawa's whole-of-government engagement in Haiti, providing a more fine-grained critique of Canadian discourses and practices. The paper ends by situating its Canada and Haiti-specific conclusions in wider policy and theoretical debates on the security-development nexus in fragile and conflict-affected states.
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