It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace

by Rye Barcott
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace

by Rye Barcott

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Overview

In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the
Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the
Marines, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence-something
he would likely facelater in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked
questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in
poverty he had never imagined. Anxious to help but unsure what to do, he
stumbled into friendship with awidowed 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, and washonored by Time
magazine as a "Hero of Global Health." CFK's greatest lesson may be
that with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will
take charge of their lives and create breathtaking change.

Engaged
in two seemingly contradictory forms of public service at the same
time, Barcott continued his leadership in CFK while serving as a human
intelligence officer in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa. Struggling
with the intense stress of leading Marines in dangerous places, he took
thetools he learned building a community in one of the most fractured
parts of Kenya and became a more effective counterinsurgent and
peacekeeper.

It Happened on the Way to War is a true story
of sacrifice and courage and the powerful melding of military and
humanitarian service. It's a story of what America's role in the world
could be.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608195015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 03/29/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Rye Barcott founded the renowned non-governmental organization
Carolina for Kibera (CFK) with Salim Mohamed and Tabitha Atieno Festo
while he was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. After graduation, he served as a Marine for five years on
active duty. In 2006 ABC World News named then Captain Barcott a
Person of the Week and Person of the Year for his dual service to Kibera
and the Marine Corps. As a Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, he
earned master's degrees in business and public administration from
Harvard University. He is currently a member of the World Learning Board
of Trustees and a TED Fellow living in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Rye Barcott founded the renowned non-governmental organization Carolina for Kibera (CFK) with Salim Mohamed and Tabitha Atieno Festo while he was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, he served as a Marine for five years on active duty. In 2006 ABC World News named then Captain Barcott a Person of the Week and Person of the Year for his dual service to Kibera and the Marine Corps. As a Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, he earned master's degrees in business and public administration from Harvard University. He is currently a member of the World Learning Board of Trustees and a TED Fellow living in Charlotte, North Carolina.

@ryebarcott

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Part I

1 The Grenade 17

2 Big Gota (Fist Bump) 37

3 The Present and the Future Leaders 55

4 "Because I can" 70

5 What's the Key? 81

Part II

6 Doers 95

7 The Sword 110

8 Things Fall Apart 118

9 Messiahs 135

10 Harambee 142

11 War on Trash 161

Part III

12 From Peacetime to Wartime 173

13 Change and Continuity 182

14 Spyderco 196

15 Compartments 213

16 Grass, Flower, and Wind 229

17 The Manuscript 250

18 The Elephant and the Velvet Glove 262

19 Eleven Years Old and His Life Is Already Behind Him 283

20 Impact 304

Epilogue 321

Acknowledgments 337

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