Tricia Wachtendorf on Haiti

Absolutely essential listening here, the last third of the clip. Tricia Wachtendorf is a disaster expert the U Delaware Disaster Research Center and highlights the key points: the people of Haiti, like all people in disasters, are their own first responders; that securitization is a self-fulfilling prophecy; and that top-down central command structures are ineffective compared to emergent decentralized / spontaneous self-organization. Click here to find the clip. The Wachtendorf interview is in the last third