WorldView | Where is the Peace?
Winter 2023-24
Building Peace in a Shattered World
WorldView is the only magazine that exclusively covers all things Peace Corps. Published twice annually, more than 70,000 individuals read each print edition, and many more in its digital format, below. From its humble origins as an alumni newsletter in the late ‘70s, today WorldView is a nationally distributed award-winning magazine recognized with both an EDDIE award for editorial excellence and an OZZIE award for design excellence in 2001. We feature news, profiles, commentary and analysis, politics, arts, and ideas with a global perspective. Worldview welcomes pitches and, on rare occasions, completed pieces.
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Featured Stories
Where is the Peace?
Those concerned with the state of global peace might be forgiven for succumbing to a melancholic, even defeatist point of view given the events of the past few years. The world is experiencing the highest level of violence since World War II, with armed conflicts simmering, enduring, or raging in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, to name just a few. Can the foundations of what has come to be called “peacebuilding” be rescued now, when they may be needed most?
Through Service, Comes Peace
Dharamsala is a bustling market town in the western Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Nestled deep in the Himalayan foothills along the northern section of the India-China border, it became the home of the Tibetan government-in-exile when the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959. These days, the Tsuglagkhang Complex, in Dharamsala’s McLeod Ganj neighborhood, is […]
The Art of Reconciliation
Kathleen Malu served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Rwanda in 1980. Thirty years later, in 2010, she returned as a Fulbright Scholar to a very different country. In the intervening years, the horrors of the Rwandan genocide had shocked the world. In 1994, over the course of 100 days, it is estimated that close […]
Retrograde
Baktash Ahadi (Mozambique, 2005– 07) is an award-winning filmmaker, human rights activist, TEDx Speaker and RPCV. His latest film, the Emmy Award winner Retrograde, offers a first-hand account of the controversial U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the human toll the war has taken on Afghans and Americans alike. Below is a condensed and edited conversation […]
The Map Makers
Forestry Volunteer Barbara Jo White (Dominican Republic 1987–89) wanted to plant fruit trees near the school in Hondo Valle, the small town she lived in on the Dominican Republic’s mountain border with Haiti. “What happened was some fruit trees came my way, and I made compost and all of that stuff and planted my fruit […]
A Matter of Perspective
One criticism often leveled at the standard maps of the 20th century is that they represent a Eurocentric view of the world. The maps we see hanging in countless classrooms and depicted on globes aren’t necessarily to scale. Commercial maps often depict an outsize Europe and a shrunken Africa, and place Asia and the Pacific […]
Follow the Energy
It was a frigid winter in 1993, and Damian Jones (Nepal 1987–91) was shivering in a sleeping bag inside his car some- where near the Eastern Market in Washington, D.C.. His big idea, to bring aid to Nepal through artisan trade, was just beginning to take off. Large entities like UNICEF and Save the Children […]
American Moon, Tongan Sun
January 6th is a date most Americans will not soon forget. Looking back now, after the insurrection, I marvel that, in 1988, 400 of us Returned Peace Corps Volunteers were invited to spend 24 hours in the Capitol Rotunda with little more than the directive that we provide our names and Social Security numbers—and this […]
Peacebuilding with Persistence
As the world has shifted its collective attention to conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, and elsewhere, it might be hard to remember that it was only two years ago that American forces withdrew from Afghanistan after more than 20 years of waging war there. For the NPCA group Friends of Afghanistan, however, the fight […]
Heavy Medal
Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the return of the first Peace Corps Volunteers to the United States. Members of Congress and all those who support the outstanding contributions of the Peace Corps should consider nominating Returned Peace Corps Volunteers as a group for a prestigious Congressional Gold Medal, an accolade that would encapsulate […]
Putting the Peace in “Peace Corps”
Peace Corps has played a significant yet often unrecognized role in global peacebuilding, the focus of this edition of WorldView. Current conflicts around the world, especially those occurring in countries where many of us have served, are heartbreaking to follow and devastating to our families, counterparts, and communities. At NPCA, our unequivocal goal is to […]
Engineered for Consumption
Most people in the developed world would agree with the statement “Water is life.” After all, our hands, lips, food, clothing, and household surfaces come in contact with clean, safe water multiple times a day. How could we exist without it and still be healthy enough to maintain our daily activities? We couldn’t. Most of […]
Rallying Point
Peace Corps service instills an ethos of growth through giving back that still drives Returned Peace Corps Volunteers today. Volunteerism is declining across the United States, according to Philanthropy News Digest, but RPCVs understand the personal enrichment that comes from service done right. We have firsthand experience of the profound fulfillment offered by meaningful volunteer […]
The Stream
WorldView selects its favorite media across channels, and invites you to share yours at [email protected] Scroll Down to See: FILMS PODCASTS BOOKS FILMS: Stranger at the Gate (The New Yorker) Our Great National Parks (Netflix) Retrograde (National Geographic) Occupied (Netflix) All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix) PODCASTS The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop […]
The Big Picture: A Sign of Peace
Handshaking is more than a superficial greeting in Burkina Faso. It reflects the deep cultural belief that strong bonds of friendship and family take precedence over all else. This image is featured as one of the Peace Cards in the International Calendar’s notecard collection from Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in and around Madison, Wisconsin. Peace Cards, notecards, and the International Calendar can be found at www.rpcvcalendar.org.
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