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In the mid-1970s, at conferences of global educators in the Midwest, a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers began meeting to discuss their service experiences.They adopted a Peace Corps objective that President John F. Kennedy stated in 1961: "Come home and teach your neighbors about the communities where you served."
The Nunn Center contains over 19,000 oral history interviews featuring a variety of individuals and projects. Significant oral history projects include: the Family Farm Project, the Colonel Arthur L. Kelly Veterans Oral History Project, University of Kentucky history, African American history in Kentucky, [4] Kentucky writers, Kentucky's medical history, the history of professional baseball ...
Critics and criticisms of Peace Corps include former volunteer and country director Robert L. Strauss in Foreign Policy, [94] The New York Times, [95] The American Interest [96] and elsewhere, an article by a former volunteer describing assaults on volunteers from 1992 to 2010, [97] an ABC news report on 20/20, [98] a Huffington Post article on ...
The Peace Corps program was established by Executive Order 10924, which was issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961. The program was legislatively authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Pub.L. 87–293). Between 1961 and 2013, over 215,000 Americans joined the Peace Corps. [1]
In a New Mexico PBS series, "A Commitment to Peace," it looks closely at how the following dramatic Cold War years were complicated by personalities, ideologies, old fears and new visions. Michael ...
Ron Tschetter, 17th Director of The Peace Corps (India 1966–1968) [36] Mark Schneider, 15th Director of the Peace Corps, senior vice president of International Crisis Group (El Salvador 1966–1968) [37] Carol Bellamy, 13th Director of the Peace Corps, former head of UNESCO, president of World Learning (Guatemala 1963–1965) [38]
The United States will resume a long-suspended Peace Corps program in the North Pacific island of Palau as the Biden administration continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador from 1966-68, this appointment constitutes the highest honor I can imagine receiving." [3] "The opportunity to follow so many distinguished men and women who preceded me as Peace Corps Director also carries a certain degree of humility. From the Honorable R. Sargent Shriver to Loret Ruppe and ...