It happened on the way to war : a marine's path to peace / Rye Barcott.
2012
HV446.5 .B37 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
It happened on the way to war : a marine's path to peace / Rye Barcott.
Author
Barcott, Rye.
Edition
Pbk. ed.
ISBN
9781608194315 paperback
1608194310 paperback
1608194310 paperback
Imprint
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012, c2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 355 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 21 cm
Call Number
HV446.5 .B37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.5/56092
Summary
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent a summer in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. A college student heading into the Marines, he sought to better understand ethnic violence--something he would likely face later in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked questions, and listened to young people talk about surviving in poverty he had never imagined. Anxious to help but unsure what to do, he stumbled into friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a hardscrabble community organizer, Salim Mohamed. Together, this unlikely trio built a non-governmental organization that would develop a new generation of leaders from within one of Africa's largest slums. Their organization, Carolina for Kibera (CFK), is now a global pioneer of the movement called Participatory Development. As Barcott continued his leadership in CFK while serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa, the tools he learned building a community in Kenya helped him become a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper.--From publisher description.
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The grenade ; Big Gota (fist bump) ; The present and future leaders ; "Because I can" ; What's the key?
pt. 2. Doers ; The sword ; Things fall apart ; Messiahs ; Harambee ; War on trash
pt. 3. From peacetime to wartime ; Change and continuity ; Spyderco ; Compartments ; Grass, flower, and wind ; The manuscript ; The elephant and the velvet glove ; Eleven years old and his life is already behind him ; Impact.
pt. 2. Doers ; The sword ; Things fall apart ; Messiahs ; Harambee ; War on trash
pt. 3. From peacetime to wartime ; Change and continuity ; Spyderco ; Compartments ; Grass, flower, and wind ; The manuscript ; The elephant and the velvet glove ; Eleven years old and his life is already behind him ; Impact.