Tag: Diplomacy
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Celebrating Peace Corps
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Sixty-five years ago today, March 1, 1961, President Kennedy signed the Executive Order that created a Peace Corps within the Department of State.
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A Development View from the Bottom to the Top
I talked extensively about development issues afflicting Honduras. But first I had to develop the reputation for being a true friend of the country and its people. -Ambassador Frank Almaguer
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Profile: Frank Almaguer
You Peace Corps people know so much more about the country than most of our politicians do. -attributed to Honduran President Carlos Roberto Flores
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Lawyer, Ambassador, Twain Scholar: Donald Bliss
Time to head to the Pacific Islands and see what Peace Corps lawyers were up to in Micronesia in 1966.
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Happy New Year
I wanted to reflect on what 2025 meant for me as a newly retired diplomat & RPCV, and and how SoftPower/FulStories contributed to that transition
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Seeking Peace Corps Images
What strikes you as a singular, foremost image to capture the spirit of Peace Corps service and U.S. diplomacy over the last half century?
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Profile: Pamela White
Peace Corps taught Pamela White that learning English was no fun in Cameroon with Eurocentric texts filled with poodles. So she generated her own materials.
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Hostage Crisis III and the Ghosts of Camelot
Metrinko was cleaned up and brought to meet Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ali Khamenei. In the room were a camera crew and the SFIL spokesperson, Niloufar Ebtekar
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Profile: Michael Metrinko
Afghan Finance Minister Ghani steeped Metrinko and Peace Corps Director Vasquez in nostalgia from his years learning English and basketball with PCVs in Kabul
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Iran Hostage Crisis II
Limbert’s poise, broadcast in Iran and around the world, leveraged Khamenei’s own culture into a polite message discrediting those holding the Americans captive
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