The Foreign Service Journal, April 2010

J O U R N A L OREIGN ERVICE S F P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 Two Important Blueprints for Labor-Management Collaboration By Susan R. Johnson S PEAKING O UT / 14 DNA: The Future of Immigrant Visa Processing By Simon Hankinson R EFLECTIONS / 72 Courage By Elisabeth Merton L ETTERS / 7 C YBERNOTES / 10 B OOKS / 63 M ARKETPLACE / 64 I NDEX TO A DVERTISERS / 70 Cover and inside illustration by Ben Fishman A P R I L 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 C ONTENTS April 2010 Volume 87, No. 4 F O C U S O N T h e F o r e i g n S e r v i c e R o l e i n H a i t i A C OMPASSIONATE AND C OMPETENT R ESPONSE / 17 The work USAID and State have done in Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake shows why they should take the lead in disaster response. By J. Brian Atwood R ELIEF E FFORTS R ESONATE IN W EST A FRICA / 21 Naval personnel from three West African nations took part in the relief effort as part of a U.S.-African military program. By Benjamin East E CHOES OF G RACE / 24 The local staff who form the backbone of Embassy Port-au-Prince saw their society literally disintegrate in seconds. By Michael Henning ‘T HE E XPERIENCE OF A L IFETIME ’ / 27 Embassy Santo Domingo has played a special role in the disaster relief efforts in neighboring Haiti. By Team Santo Domingo T ALES FROM THE F IELD / 33 Hundreds of AFSA members from around the world are responding to the crisis in Haiti. Here are some of their stories. By Steven Alan Honley R EMEMBERING T HOSE W E H AVE L OST / 45 One Foreign Service officer, the wife and two children of an FSO and at least six Foreign Service Nationals were among the casualties. By Susan Brady Maitra