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THE PEACE CORPS: CONSIDERATIONS, ASSESSMENTS AND SAFETY -- THE PEACE CORPS: CONSIDERATIONS, ASSESSMENTS AND SAFETY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE PEACE CORPS: CURRENT ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS -- FY2012 Appropriations -- Authorization Legislation -- PEACE CORPS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT -- ISSUES -- Peace Corps Funding and Expansion -- Volunteers, Programming and Support -- The Volunteer Force -- Programming and Support -- Safety and Security Issues -- Legislative Proposals on Safety and Security -- End Notes

Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Beginning -- 2. The Establishment of the Peace Corps -- 3. Cameroon and Its Problems -- 4. Recruitment, Training, and Selection -- 5. The Volunteers as Teachers -- 6. Volunteers in Community Development -- 7. Living in Cameroon -- 8. Cameroonians Evaluate Volunteer Services -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Darstellung und Beurteilung der Arbeit von Peace-Corps-Freiwilligen, die ab 1973 hauptsächlich im Gesundheitswesen und als Englischlehrer im Oman tätig waren, bis die Regierung von Oman das Programm 1983 auslaufen ließ. (DÜI-Cls)

America is a land of habits, attitudes, or re sponses, whether one wishes to call them traditions or not. Many of these have been agents preparing the way for the ap pearance of the Peace Corps. The concept of an American world mission, first associated with Protestantism but broad ened to include world peace and the dissemination of our tools of economic success, certainly falls into this category. An interest in the fate of common men everywhere, expressed through numerous privately financed American relief and de velopment projects overseas, is another instance of an attitude which has been extended by the Peace Corps. John F. Ken nedy's 1960 campaign proposal came after a decade of dis cussion and lobbying on behalf of an official "people-to-people" program involving volunteer technicians. The Peace Corps is a product of American anti-Communist foreign policy. But more than that, it is an expression of ongoing American opti misms in the fate of man. Whether Americans, who have not yet succeeded in making their own land a model of brotherly harmony and general prosperity, can succeed in their global enterprise, remains to be seen.