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	Peace Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peace Corps was established by executive order in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and approved by Congress as a permanent agency within the State Department later that year.
		Ron Tschetter, who served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the mid 1960's in India, was nominated as Vasquez's replacement in late July by President Bush.
		Concerned with the growing tide of revolutionary sentiment in the Third World, Kennedy saw the Peace Corps as a means of countering the notions of the "Ugly American" and "Yankee imperialism," especially in the emerging nations of postcolonial Africa and Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peace_Corps (2032 words)

	Reconsidering the Peace Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Peace Corps is one of the smallest instruments in the foreign policy toolkit of the United States.
		Peace Corps volunteers are public servants because the enabling legislation accords them the status of federal employees.
		The Peace Corps agency may not be the best instrument for advancing this goal because it competes with the primary mission of placing qualified volunteers in communities abroad.
	www.brook.edu /comm/policybriefs/pb127.htm (3356 words)

	Peace Corps
		The Peace Corps posts in these countries are using Emergency Plan resources to enhance their HIV/AIDS programming and in-country training; field additional Crisis Corps and Peace Corps volunteers specifically in support of Emergency Plan goals; and provide targeted support for community-initiated projects.
		Peace Corps involvement in the Emergency Plan acts as a catalyst as Peace Corps volunteers provide long-term capacity development support to nongovernmental, community-based, and faith-based organizations with particular emphasis on ensuring that community-initiated projects and programs provide holistic support to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
		Peace Corps volunteers also aim to develop the necessary management and programmatic expertise at recipient and beneficiary organizations to ensure long-lasting support, particularly in rural communities.
	www.state.gov /s/gac/agencies/53590.htm (228 words)

	Peace Corps - United States Embassy Lusaka Zambia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Peace Corps is a United States Volunteer Organization dedicated to grassroots development and economic growth in developing countries.
		Peace Corps concentrates most of its efforts on rural development and adheres to a philosophy of helping people help themselves, emphasizing the transfer of skills to host country counterparts and the use of appropriate technology.
		Peace Corps relies on the host country to select projects and decide what role the Volunteers will play in the host country’s development plan.
	zambia.usembassy.gov /zambia/Peace_Corps.html (855 words)

	Peace Corps
		In the past, ACU has been an e-recuriting school and all recruiting was done on the Internet, but the Peace Corps has now decided to present informational meetings in person at ACU, said James Barta, Peace Corps recruiter and graduate of Hardin-Simmons University.
		The Peace Corps trains Americans to serve as volunteers in nations across the world and is especially relevant in today's society, Barta said.
		Since 1961, 44 graduates from ACU have joined Peace Corps, and today two alumni are serving and two current applicants have received invitations.
	www.acu.edu /events/news/020702_peacecorps.html (376 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| Peace Corps Crossroads
		Peace Corps Alumni Foundation for Philippine Development was founded in 1983 by former volunteers, staff, and friends of the Peace Corps in the Philippines.
		Peace Corps at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		Peace Corps as a foreign policy tool is a column by an Iowa State senior in which he argues that “the Peace Corps is an arm of U.S. foreign policy, and its primary aim is to make the world safe for multinational finance capital”.
	peacecorpsonline.org /crossroads (9867 words)

	BostonWorks - Peace Corps Jobs and Employer Profile
		The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then-Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.
		Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.
		Part of the Peace Corps' success is due to the dedicated people who work behind the scenes to support the agency and the thousands of Volunteers serving overseas.
	bostonworks.boston.com /research/profiles/peace_corps.shtml (278 words)

	USATODAY.com - Peace Corps needs makeover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It's the kind the Peace Corps is celebrating as it commemorates the 45th anniversary this month of John F. Kennedy's campaign speech on Oct. 14, 1960, calling for its creation.
		While the Peace Corps commercials talk about development, only one of these goals is about that version of helping.
		Peace Corps service is a job, but few volunteers are evaluated on specific metrics, such as how many adults passed a literacy test.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-10-24-peace-corps-edit_x.htm (891 words)

	DDN \| Peace talk: Peace Corps articles prompt debate
		Hogan said the Peace Corps discontinued the personality tests because they were not good predictors of who would succeed in the field.
		The Peace Corps neglected to collect crime data for analysis during its first 28 years, omitted many victims from its published crime statistics and failed to track some serious crimes at all, the series found.
		In my opinion, Peace Corps in the Philippines in the late 1980s made too much of the protection we would receive from our neighbors." Scott Foust argued in his posting that the Peace Corps country staffs — those who most directly supervise volunteers during their assignments — need to be held accountable.
	www.daytondailynews.com /project/content/project/peacecorps/daily/1102peacecorps.html (1681 words)

	Joining the Peace Corps
		She was the only Peace Corps volunteer in the rural village.
		As a Peace Corps volunteer from 2000 to 2002, Moore lived in a rural area in the Philippines, where she worked for the Department of Education instructing high school teachers about ways to incorporate environmental education and critical thinking skills into their lessons.
		Her Peace Corps assignment took her to Ecuador, where she lived in an apartment and worked in Bahía de Caraquez, a small coastal town.
	www.ohio.edu /ohiotoday/exclusives/peacecorps.cfm (1692 words)

	Peace Corps Romania
		In December 1990, a country representative and an administrative officer from the Peace Corps arrived in Bucharest.
		The Peace Corps began a health, social and youth nongovernmental organization development project and a community economic development project in 1993.
		Volunteers in the Peace Corps’ Community Economic Development (CED) sector work with their Romanian partners to help communities participate successfully in the global economy and upgrade their standard of living.
	www.peacecorps.ro /webapps/pcro/index.php?KTURL=peacecorps0.html&page=464 (841 words)

	Peace Corps \| Learn About Peace Corps \| Where Does Peace Corps Work? \| Africa \| Mozambique
		The Peace Corps is working with government institutions, NGOs, community and religious leaders, teachers, students, out of school youths and communities in Mozambique to develop their own human resources and achieve greater self-sufficiency.
		The Peace Corps began its first project in Mozambique with Volunteer English teachers as a part of a national effort to improve English language teaching in Mozambique.
		The Peace Corps health project is particularly focused on education and prevention, with the main target groups being those considered most at risk, such as youths (and especially young women), orphans and vulnerable children.
	www.peacecorps.gov /index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc.africa.mozambique (421 words)

	The Special Peace Corps
		The Special Peace Corps provides its members with opportunities to fully contribute to the healthy functioning of their communities.
		Educating its students to see themselves as instruments of peace, and the Peace Movement as a way of life, the school developed a philosophy, structure and style of engaging young people in humanitarian work that transforms the lives of its students and those with whom they come in contact.
		Another benefit of the Special Peace Corps is the diversity of skills members develop while serving in the program.
	www.peaceabbey.org /education/education_corps.htm (666 words)

	USATODAY.com - Don't change the Peace Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Though this form of development may not be as "efficient" as bringing in money and technology and fixing the problems for them, it is more sustainable and leads to the kind of growth and change that such communities take ownership of and carry out themselves for years to come.
		Laura Vanderkam's commentary, "Peace Corps needs makeover" misses the point that Peace Corps gives Americans a village-level view of development, a view that is sorely needed in the ranks of policymakers.
		Many former Peace Corps volunteers put this education to use in later careers in the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and non-government organizations participating in development.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-10-31-letters-peace-corps_x.htm (425 words)

	Peace Corps - U.S. Embassy Lilongwe, Malawi
		The Peace Corps Community Health and HIV/AIDS Project works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), and local NGOs/CBOs to address health issues in rural areas.
		Peace Corps Malawi supports the efforts of the Government of Malawi to provide a minimum package of essential health services to all its citizens, with emphasis on poor women and children and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
		Peace Corps/Malawi has utilized Crisis Corps Volunteers (CCVs) in the fight against AIDS and food security by placing Volunteers with local NGOs in capacity building positions.
	lilongwe.usembassy.gov /peace_corps.html (1114 words)

	Strawberry Fields Special Peace Corps
		Just as the Peace Corps was established in 1961 in this country to assist developing countries by providing knowledgeable volunteers, the Special Peace Corps was established to provide an alternative way of life for young adults with special needs who have a desire to help.
		Like the Peace Corps, the Special Peace Corps members participate for a two-year period or until community employment can be arranged.
		Each morning the members of the Special Peace Corps attend the morning meeting which serves to remind them that each is connected to the other and their highest calling is to serve oneanother and society.
	www.peaceabbey.org /education/spcmdn.htm (671 words)

	Updates about the Peace Corps Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Peace Corps Fund in not a membership organization, we will not engage in peace making activities around the world, we will not publish a quarterly magazine, and we will not create or manage programs.
		The Peace Corps Institute was established in the 1970s to create several directories of Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff.
		RPCV Writers and Readers, now PeaceCorpsWriters.org networks writers and has produced several bibliographies of Peace Corps writers, and funded the editing of Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers that was published by Curbstone Press in 2000.
	www.peacecorpsfund.org /pages/updates/update02.html (851 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Peace Corps volunteers back from developing countries will put the cultural skills they gained to use in Mongtomery County as part of a project announced this morning aimed at helping schools with high immigrant populations.
		About 50 onetime Peace Corps volunteers have signed up to help at two Montgomery schools where the majority of students are immigrants and many are poor.
		Washington, DC: I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1993 to '95.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/01/metro/metro_peacecorps050201.htm (1633 words)

	CAPCA Home
		Peace Corps Volunteer, Health and Sanitation-Ghana is an extensive interview with a volunteer in Ghana.
		Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan Home Page a web site (with some beautiful photos) created by current PCVs, and hosted by an internet server in their country of service.
		Peace Corp Experiences Liberia This is a few short stories of events during my PC service.
	www.capca.org /pclist.htm (1699 words)

	Peace Corps Writers
		Peace Corps Writers, in cooperation with the Peace Corps Fund, and the NY Writers Coalition, one of the largest community-based writing organizations in the country, has organized for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers an 8-week creative writing workshop beginning on September 14, 2006.
		John Coyne, editor Peace Corps Writers, and editor of several anthologies of Peace Corps writings, will work individually with workshop participants to help them publish their work.
		It was neither and since his Peace Corps years the pain has never returned to reduce John, as he says, to tears.
	www.peacecorpswriters.org (918 words)

	PEACE CORPS Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal - Find Articles
		The Peace Corps was the last place I thought I'd find an idea for a long-term project and the last place I thought I would find a federal agency with something to hide.
		But several years ago, while scanning the semiannual report to Congress from the Peace Corps Office of Inspector General, 1 noticed reports of rapes and other assaults, brief descriptions of violent attacks, mostly directed at young female volunteers.
		In the meantime, I went to the Peace Corps spokeswoman.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3720/is_200407/ai_n9428929 (770 words)

	Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Spokane WA
		Peace Corps Crossroads One of the most complete Peace Corps resources on the web, includes links to many other PC and RPCV related sites.
		Peace Gallery The Peace Gallery presents images from around the world as seen through the cameras of Peace Corps volunteers.
		Peace Corps Online Peace Corps News is an independent organization not affiliated with the US Peace Corps.
	www.geocities.com /inpca (1033 words)

	Photos for Peace: UncommonTravel Photography by Peace Corps Volunteers
		Images contributed by RPCV Peace Corps volunteers for exhibit and sharing are available in the
		Peace Corps Volunteers interested in displaying and selling their work on this website, email info@photosforpeace.org for more information.
		a former Peace Corps volunteer that served in the Philippines.
	www.photosforpeace.org (189 words)

	Peace Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She applauded JFK's program because she thought the Peace Corps would enable Americans to learn about public service, the duties of citizenship, and the international responsibilities of the United States to less developed countries.
		The diversity of specializations within the Peace Corps continued to expand through the 1960s and 1970s as the number of volunteers in the field swelled to more than 15,000.
		The Peace Corps remains a central aspect of the international development policies of the United States to this day, with over 7,000 volunteers currently deployed in the field or in training.
	www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/peace-corps.htm (336 words)

	Peace Corps Writers Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Peace Corps stopped placing volunteers in southern Muslim areas, which includes a broad swath of islands that connects Mindanao to Borneo, the Sulu Archipelago.
		After a booster shot at the Peace Corps office in Warsaw, I rode a streetcar to the Marriott Hotel in the center of town for coffee (kawa pronounced "kava").
		The Peace Corps program in Nepal closed in in September 2004, and Scott's group, N/194, became the last to COS in country.
	peacecorpswriters.blogs.com (10273 words)

	Peace Corps Panama Friends: www.panamapcv.net
		We are a community of Peace Corps Panama volunteers, staff, families, and friends.
		Peace Corps Panama Friends hosted the Pajaro Jai in Washington, DC, on its maiden voyage to the U.S. She was sailed to the U.S. by a crew including Embera-Wounaan from Panama and Chris Meyer, who just completed his volunteer service in Panama.
		Peter G. Redmond, the new Peace Corps Country Director in Panama, shares his June 30, 2005, PowerPoint presentation on Keeping the Bus on the Road as he and his staff plan for 150 PCVs on-board by year’s end.
	www.panamapcv.net (844 words)

	Peace Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Whether you're a current student interested in joining the Peace Corps, a returned Peace Corps volunteer interested in remaining in touch with other RPCVs, or a friend of the Peace Corps interested in supporting its mission, you'll find the information you're looking for here.
		Click here to download a powerpoint presentation on the Peace Corps (Be aware that it is quite large - 15 MB).
		Arlington, VA Be sure to visit the main Peace Corps web site to fill out an on-line application and for further information about projects, countries, application process, as well as volunteer stories, FAQ's, upcoming events, etc.
	www.agnr.umd.edu /PeaceCorps/index.cfm?ID=301 (228 words)

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