Program Preview: A Half-Century of the Peace Corps
Episode Date Jan 27 2011
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2008: Public debate over its role mission, sparked by article from former country director:
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/docs/StraussReading.pdf
Strauss in Foreign Policy magazine:
2008: Public debate over its role mission, sparked by article from former country director:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/opinion/09strauss.html?_r=1
Too Many Innocents Abroad, op-ed by Robert Strauss, NYT:
2008: Public debate over its role mission, sparked by article from former country director:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E6D9113BF930A25752C0A96E9C8B63
NYT Readers react:
“It’s Time for the Peace Corps Administration to Wake UP and Reform,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rajeev-goyal/post_1627_b_813930.html
AP’s version of the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23078789/ns/world_news-americas/
BRIDGET JOHNSON
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/139819-rep-poe-says-peace-corps-covered-up-rape-of-us-volunteers
BRIDGET JOHNSON
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/lawmaker-news/40068-himes-backs-shays-to-head-peace-corps
http://thehill.com/capital-living/51833-house-members-who-served-in-the-peace-corps-find-common-ground
http://BRIDGET JOHNSON
Interesting piece on symbolic, ideological history of Peace Corps (from the Journal of Third World Studies):
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200704/ai_n19431907/?tag=content;col1
Jean interviewed on Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/11/us_embassy_in_bolivia_tells_fulbright
JEAN’S PEACE CORPS/BOLIVIA STORY:
http://peacecorpsconnect.typepad.com/peacecorpspolyglot/2008/02/bolivia-spying.html
Peace Corps Association reacts:
JEAN’S PEACE CORPS/BOLIVIA STORY:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4262036
JEAN’S PEACE CORPS/BOLIVIA STORY:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3562/recruiting_spies_in_the_peace_corps/
MIKE BURDEN:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/packages/locally-grown-michael-burden/
Missouri School of Journalism graduate and Peace Corps recruiter at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Peace Corps site, general info:
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=about
Peace Corps site, general info:
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=about.fastfacts
Peace Corps Suspends work in Niger:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/18/AR2011011804667.html
Recent increase in number of older volunteers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/retirementspecial/02PEACE.html?_r=1
Sargent Shriver on Peace Corps
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1986/09/interview-shriver.html
Multinational Monitor Interview in 1986:
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Air Time: 6:30pm - 7:00 pm, January 27, 2011
The Peace Corps celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, while mourning the recent loss of its founder, Sargent Shriver. Volunteers have touched the lives of millions around the planet and spread America's good will, but have also been accused of spying and being tools of American imperialism.
Journalists and policy makers who have served in the Peace Corps or written about it will discuss the role of America's most famous volunteer organization this week on the Global Journalist.