Brian Concannon Jr. writes and speaks often about justice, human rights and the democratic transition in Haiti. He is director of the
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (
IJDH). He formerly worked at the International Lawyers Office (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he has spent the last several years prosecuting crimes committed during the 1991-1994 coup. Among the cases he has prosecuted are those stemming from the 1994 Raboteau massacre in Gonaives. Concannon is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and held a Brandeis International Fellowship in Human Rights, Intervention and International Law from 2001-2003. Since Haiti’s coup d’etat in February 2004, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) has switched gears to document continuing human rights violations. The BAI also runs a training program for Haitian law school graduates.