AMERICAS
March 2008
Broadmoor Project Announces 2008 Summer Internships
Announcement
The HKS-Broadmoor Project for Community Engagement in New Orleans is pleased to announce 3 paid summer internships in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans.
Pat Semansky
January, 2008
Broadmoor's LaToya Cantrell featured in Delta-Sky Magazine
News
LaToya Cantrell, president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, is featured in the January 2008 issue of Delta Sky Magazine.
December 2007
Lessons from Katrina
Book
A guidebook to community-driven planning in disaster recovery.
Pat Semansky
December 1, 2007
Neighborhood Leadership Forum with Boston's Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Presentation
DSNI travels to New Orleans to provide a hands-on workshop for ideas, skills, and resources local neighborhoods can use to implement real change at home.
Pat Semansky
November 15, 2007
Boston’s Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative to Conduct New Orleans Leadership Forum
News
As neighborhood leaders work to rebuild physical and social aspects of their communities, best practices are established that can be shared with others.
April 2007
"Building the Plane as You Fly It: Community Development Systems in New Orleans"
Paper
To the extent it ever existed, the network of individuals and organizations concerned with community development in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina was ineffective and inadequately supported. The complexity of economic and social challenges facing the city overwhelmed its capacity to respond. These challenges included a declining population, stagnant economy, highly concentrated poverty, and one of the country’s highest rates of violent crime. The difficulty in establishing an effective system of community development organizations was exacerbated by the city’s changing economic structure towards a dependence on low-wage service sector employment.
Fall 2006
Community Mapping Project
Brochure
In June and July of 2006 the Broadmoor community took on a mapping and surveying project. Bard College compiled information collected by Harvard University and Bard College students with the help from PlanReady, Inc. This is a step-by-step guidebook on community-wide surveying and mapping projects for other neighborhood associations and CDCs.
Summer 2006
"Kennedy School Thoughts on New Orleans"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
On March 25, 18 Kennedy School students traveled to New Orleans to assist residents of the devastated New Orleans neighborhood of Broadmoor in designing a strategy for neighborhood recovery. Broadmoor, an economically and racially diverse neighborhood in the heart of New Orleans, experienced extensive flooding as a result of the failed levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Five residents of this neighborhood of 7,000 were killed; 3500 have not yet returned. Those who have returned are taking unprecedented steps to demonstrate the vitality of their neighborhood. Working with resident committees set up by the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Kennedy School students spent a week this spring applying their skills in organization, civic engagement, urban planning, and economic development to help the residents develop a strategic plan in response to the city's request for neighborhood viability reports. The plan will serve as a model for other neighborhoods searching for the path forward. The Kennedy School/Broadmoor initiative was developed by Doug Ahlers, a fellow at the Belfer Center and a member of the Economic Development Committee for the "Bring New Orleans Back" Commission. "It is clear that the arrival of the Kennedy School and other Harvard students helped reenergize the residents," Ahlers said. "For the students, this has been the opportunity to use their skills to help in a way that will make a very real and lasting difference to thousands of people."
March 5, 2013
"Cyber Security"
Media Feature
By Ryan Ellis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project
Dr. Ellis raises an interesting question: Does the pursuit of offensive cyber capabilities undermine domestic security? The conversation highlights a growing area of concern and ongoing debate.
Summer 2013
"Elbe Group Facilitates U.S.-Russia Communication, Security"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Kevin Ryan, Director, Defense and Intelligence Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
As U.S. and Soviet forces converged in Germany in the final days of WWII, both armies met at the River Elbe near Torgau. That meeting of comrades, united in the face of common threats, is the inspiration for the Belfer Center’s “Elbe Group,” whose purpose is to maintain an open and continuous channel of communication on sensitive issues of U.S.-Russian relations. In late March, the Elbe Group met in Jerusalem for its eighth meeting since its founding in 2010.
