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Darstellung der Positionen, die Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) und Najib Mahfuz (geb. 1912) in Interviews, öffentlichen Stellungnahmen und ihren Werken seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre zum Nahostkonflikt bezogen haben. Beide haben lange vor dem ägyptisch-israelischen Friedensvertrag auf die Notwendigkeit einer Friedensregelung mit Israel hingewiesen. (DÜI-Hns)

This study expands the limited academic literature on development through civic service in Africa by examining national service programmes in Ghana. Peace Corps publications, volunteer memoirs and archival research were used to examine intra-organizational learning in Ghana's national service programmes and the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps and Ghana's National Service Scheme have generally met educational, cross-cultural understanding and self-development objectives, but, due to overriding organizational concerns with public image, have rarely enhanced patriotism or Ghanaian national development, despite abundant comments from individual volunteers. Improved organizational learning could enhance programme assessment and the effectiveness of development assistance at the national level.

In order to be selected to serve abroad, Peace Corps Volunteers have first to complete successfully an intensive training program designed to develop att's, knowledge, & skills necessary for effective overseas service. The great majority of these training programs have been conducted by Coll's & U's. It has been a great challenge both to the Peace Corps & to higher educ to work together to develop training programs which would prepare the volunteers for their work in a vastly diff culture. Although initially U's encountered great difficulties in admin'ing successful training programs, the experience gained has resulted in considerable improvement in the techniques of instruction & content of the training programs. Peace Corps Volunteers are now the best prepared group of Amer's going overseas. Lessons learned in developing effective educ'al programs for volunteers have had a beneficial impact on the regular instructional programs of many U's. Both higher educ & the Peace Corps have benefited from their educ'al partnership, which is likely to become even more mutually productive in the future. HA.

In order to be selected to serve abroad, Peace Corps Volunteers have first to complete successfully an inten sive training program designed to develop attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for effective overseas service. The great majority of these training programs have been conducted by colleges and universities. It has been a great challenge both to the Peace Corps and to higher education to work together to develop training programs which would prepare the Volunteers for their work in a vastly different culture. Although, initially, universities encountered great difficulties in administering suc cessful training programs, the experience gained has resulted in considerable improvement in the techniques of instruction and content of the training programs. Peace Corps Volunteers are now the best prepared group of Americans going overseas. Lessons learned in developing effective educational programs for Volunteers have had a beneficial impact on the regular in structional programs of many universities. Both higher educa tion and the Peace Corps have benefited from their educational partnership, which is likely to become even more mutually pro ductive in the future.

"This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect support of the establishment of this service in both theory and practice. The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent UN peacekeeping service to improve UN peace operations as well as to operationalise the emerging norm of the 'responsibility to protect' civilians from atrocity crimes. The UNEPS proposal has received limited support. The author argues that interest in, and support for, the UNEPS proposal is determined by government perceptions that such a service would erode state sovereignty, the extent to which the principles of the proposal are consistent with actors' views on the world and perceptions on whether UNEPS will realistically be capable of contributing to the workings of the UN and regional peacekeeping systems in areas that are seen to be deficient. The book makes a case for localising the UNEPS proposal and the author suggests that UNEPS' architects might consider developing a less ambitious proposal as a first step to creating a rapidly deployable service with the mandate to prevent atrocity crimes. It examines various alternatives towards this end and concludes that, because the UNEPS proposal is intricately linked to the UN, trust in the world organisation is an essential ingredient in generating support for the idea. It argues that a central way of achieving this is to ensure that the values and priorities of a wide range of stakeholders are seen to be represented in the organisation's structure and workings"--

The creation of the Peace Corps is usually associated with President John F. Kennedy. However, before Kennedy articulated his vision of a "peace corps," Senator Hubert Humphrey and Congressman Henry Reuss sought the establishment of such an organization. Humphrey and Reuss grew interested in the idea as they observed the work of voluntary organizations, created by religious groups, that sent young people into the world to carry out humanitarian projects. Working on a people‐to‐people basis, often in isolated locations in developing nations, these groups, to many observers, had a greater positive impact than the larger development projects carried out by the U.S. government. In particular, this article focuses on two of those organizations: the Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) and International Voluntary Service (IVS). Most of the IVS projects were financed by the U.S. government under contract with the International Cooperation Administration. Little historical work has been done on either of the two organizations and this study is an in‐depth look at how the work of BVS and the IVS in the 1950s set the stage for the creation of the Peace Corps in the early 1960s.