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The U. S. Peace Corps - Possible Areas of Improvement in the Third Millennium
Firýtová, Aneta ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of the U. S. Peace Corps and its possible areas of improvement in the third millennium. The aim of the thesis is to research available documents and to determine and analyze possible areas of improvement during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The thesis focuses on African continent with regards to the Peace Corps presence in individual host countries. The main research questions of this thesis are: "What are the possible areas of improvement within the U. S. Peace Corps organization in the third millennium?", and "Is the agency and the political debates concerning the reforms of the agency reflecting experiences and feedback of the volunteers?" The answers to these questions are sought with the help of research in documents as well as with the help of the analysis of author's one hundred collected surveys from current and former volunteers. Moreover, the areas of the Peace Corps training, recruitment, and support of the volunteers are researched in this thesis alongside with the Washington bureaucracy, mission of the agency, safety and security of the volunteers, sexual assault response, and whistleblower reforms. There are four chapters in the thesis and several subchapters. The first chapter elaborates on the origins of the Peace...
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The successes of soft power in international relation
Wesley, Nathaniel ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Anděl, Petr (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to look at the role of the United States Peace Corps as a tool of soft power in the context of international relations and at the use of soft power as an effective part of diplomacy. This thesis has looks at the role of the Peace Corps in former British colonies in West Africa between 1961 and 1970.The project has focused the relationship of the newly independent British colonies with the United States in a period of intensive ideological interest of the USSR in this part of the world. The primary materials used in the paper have been journals and newspaper articles published by the Peace Corps, testimonials of former Peace Corps volunteers and scholarly publications on the topic of the Peace Corps, West African-American relations and relations between West Africa and the USSR. The Peace Corps played an important role in establishing relations between the US and West African countries in the 1960's with a special emphasis on education.
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The Peace Corps and Its Role in the Cold War
Válková, Aneta ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Anděl, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the activity of the Peace Corps in Africa during the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and under the conduct of its first director Robert Sargent Shriver. The thesis researches and evaluates the process of the Peace Corps establishment, its activities and its role within this period of time. The question whether the Peace Corps was a purely voluntary organisation or whether it fulfilled any political goal in the concept of the Kennedy's foreign policy is the main research question to which the thesis tries to find an answer. Firstly, the thesis deals with the Peace Corps establishment and the problems related to it. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the structure of the Peace Corps and its purpose as well as the profile, the experiences and the motivation of its volunteers to join the Peace Corps. It also covers the training programs of future volunteers. Last but not least, the thesis will focus on the activities of the American volunteers in particular African countries that are Somalia, Tanganyika and Nigeria. The closing chapter is concerned with the John F. Kennedy's foreign policy and the Peace Corps' role in its conduct on the African continent in the Cold War context. There is shortly discussed the reaction on the Corps' activities within the...
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