May 17, 2023 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Bill Josephson, One of the Founding Fathers of Peace Corps, Writes About False Information

May 17 2023

Please note: This letter is in response to a query about Peace Corps and information from Alana DeJoseph, Producer of the Peace Corps historic Documentary, A Towering Task: “Dear Alana and Joanne: Thanks for Alana’s of March 30, 2023. She is certainly keeping me busy these days as I hurtle toward 90. I have maintained a file with respect to charges and publications about the Peace Corps that may jeopardize Peace Corps volunteers. I do not warrant its completeness. Sarge never wanted to have a security office, as such, in the Peace Corps. He assigned such issues to me, and I generally handled them personally without delegation to other lawyers. Consequently, I was the Peace Corps liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and so forth. The General Counsel’s office also screened Peace Corps volunteer and employee applicants who . . .

“It’s time to embrace community-led conservation . . ., ” Audrey Moreng (Fiji)

May 17 2023

“. . . vs. the colonial kind” (a commentary) by Audrey Moreng (Fiji 2018-2000) 15 May 2023 Conservation NGOs often enter countries like Fiji and advise local and Indigenous communities on how to protect their land and sea territories, or worse, acquire land and preclude the traditional residents from it. More NGOs are embracing community-led conservation, though, and we must embrace this, a new op-ed by a former Peace Corps volunteer in Fiji argues. “Fiji does not need new ideas on how to protect their ‘iqoliqoli’ (marine areas). Instead, Fiji has a lot to teach the rest of the world,” the author writes. This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay. When I lived on the remote island of Beqa, in Fiji, I watched as foreign-based NGOs entered villages and told Fijians how to live their lives, saying things like . . .

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