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“ TO BE A PATRIOT IN THIS SENSE MEANSTO LIVE OUT OF A RECOGNITION THAT ONEIS A MEMBER OF A PARTICULAR CULTUREAND SOCIETY, BUT SO ARE ALL OTHERHUMAN BEINGS, AND THEIR KINSHIP ANDBONDS—THEIR SACRED PLACES—AREAS IMPORTANT TO THEM AS OURS ARETO US. LOVE OF COUNTRY, YES. LOYALTYTO COUNTRY, YES; BUT WE CARRY TWOPASSPORTS—ONE STAMPED AMERICAN,T H E O T H E R H U M A N B E I N G . W E A R EMEMBERS OF THE SAME GREAT RACE, BUTOUR TENTS ARE PITCHED ON DIFFERENTGROUND, AND SO WE LOOK OUT ON THEWORLD FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. THIS HASVERY PRACTICAL RESULTS FOR THE WAYONE WORKS. YOU GO ABROAD CAUTIOUSABOUT THE HELP YOU CAN BE TO OTHERS;THE ONLY CHANGE THAT REALLY MATTERSIS THE ONE THAT MUST COME FROM WITHIN.BUT YOU GO BECAUSE THE WORLD ISYOUR HOME.” —Bill Moyers, Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Peace Corps
TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3A Call to Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9The Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9The Three Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Peace as the Overriding Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Goal 1: Helping people of interested countries meet their needsfor trained men and women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Goal 2: Helping promote a better understanding of Americans onthe part of peoples served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Goal 3: Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans . 18A Transformative Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Reasons for Joining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Who Serves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Where Volunteers Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20What Volunteers Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Safety and Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Unfinished Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Toward a Stronger Peace Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Our Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Appendix: Voices of the First Returned Peace Corps Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Acknowledgments and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36A CALL TO PEACE SEPTEMBER 20111|
Page 1: A Call to PeacePerspectives of Volu
Page 5: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYTHE PEACE CORPS EX
Page 9 and 10: WAYS FORWARDIn anticipation of the
Page 11 and 12: A CALL TO PEACEThis report is not a
Page 13 and 14: KEY MOMENTS: PEACE CORPS FOUNDINGOC
Page 15 and 16: Those serving in predominantly Musl
Page 17 and 18: Peace Corps to set the goals of the
Page 19 and 20: TODAY, 22 PERCENT OF ALL PEACE CORP
Page 21 and 22: A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCEThe over
Page 23 and 24: Figure 15: Regions by Decade of Ser
Page 25 and 26: Confidential. Embargoed until Septe
Page 27 and 28: women who reported feeling unsafe a
Page 29 and 30: While RPCVs recognized the need for
Page 31 and 32: Below are core principles and propo
Page 33 and 34: The Peace Corps, Volunteers for Pro
Page 35 and 36: CONCLUSIONThe Peace Corps was a bol
Page 37 and 38: country and how to apply their over
Page 39 and 40: Schwarz, K. (1991). What You Can Do

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