It happened on the way to war
Subtitle: a marine's path to peace
By: Rye Barcott
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781608194315
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Poor; Carolina for Kibera; United States. Marine Corps; Officers; Slums; United States; Community development; Social service; Social conditions; Volunteer workers in social service; Biography; Armed Forces
Description: "This is a book about two forms of service that appear contradictory: war-fighting and peacemaking, military service and social entrepreneurship. In 2001, Marine officer-in-training Bye Barcott cofounded a nongovernmental organization with two Kenyans in the Kibera slums of Nairobi. Their organization - Carolina for Kibera - grew to become a model of a global movement called participatory development ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The grenade ; Big Gota (fist bump) ; The present and future leaders ; "Because I can" ; What's the key?; title: pt. 2. Doers ; The sword ; Things fall apart ; Messiahs ; Harambee ; War on trash; title: 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.