National Youth Service :
A Global Perspective

Contents

Introduction
1: National Service Programs and Proposals

• Botswana
• Canada
• China
• Costa Rica
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• India
• Nigeria
• Papua New Guinea
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States of America
• Zimbabwe

Profiles of National Service

2: Aspects of National Youth Service

• Civilian Service or Military Service?
• Nation Building and National Service
• Universal Principles
• A Distinction between Service and Employment
• The Learning Potential of Youth Service
• Youth as Leaders and as Servers
• American Examples
• Outcomes of National Service
• Dollars and Sense
• Aspects of national youth service: An Agenda for the Future
• The Conference Communique: A Call to Service

Appendix A (this page): Global Conference Participants, June 18-21, 1992

Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography

Appendix A

Global Conference Participants, June 18-21, 1992

Hon. Clant K. Alok, Commissioner, National Youth Service, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Bao Yongjian, Consultant, Student, Unions in Shanghai, CHINA

Gen. Raymond Caire, General Secretary, Interministerial Commission on Civilian Forms of National Service, FRANCE

Lieut. Gen. (Retd.) Dr. M. L. Chibber, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, INDIA

Dr. (Mrs.) Ramesh Chibber, Research Associate, INDIA

Philippe Dalbavie, Charge de Mission General Secretariat for National Defense FRANCE

Earl W. Eames, Jr., Chairman of the Board, National Service Secretariat, USA

Donald J. Eberly, Executive Director, National Service Secretariat, USA

Maria Hernandez Ferrier, Executive Director for Special Programs, Independent School District, San Antonio, USA

Franciena Fowler-Turner, Volunteer Coordinator, St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home, USA

Mrs. Maria de los Angeles Gonzalez, Supervisor, University Extension Projects and Programs, University of Costa Rica, COSTA RICA

Senator Jacques Hebert, Chairman, Senate Committee on Youth, CANADA

Mrs. Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director, Community Service Volunteers, GREAT BRITAIN

Alan Khazei, Co-Director, City Year, Boston, USA

Dr. James C. Kielsmeier, President, National Youth Leadership Council, USA

Dr. Jurgen Kuhlmann, Senior Research Fellow, German Armed Forces Institute for Social Research, GERMANY

Loeung Khi, Executive Director, Youth Leadership Program, Khmer Association of Minnesota, USA

Mrs. Galaletsang Maakwe, Director Tirelo Setshaba, BOTSWANA

Hon. Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Chairman, Commission on National and Community Service, USA

Col. HB Momoh, Director, National Youth Service Corps, NIGERIA

Brig. A. Mutambara, Ministry of Political Affairs, ZIMBABWE

Hon. Lincoln Myers, Founding Minister of National Training and Service, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Mr. Solly Nageng, Publicity Officer, Tirelo Setshaba, BOTSWANA

Robert O'Brien, "Volunteers for Peace", USA

Daniel O'Laughlin, Consultant, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, USA

Tim Rochte, Director, Office of International Programs, California Conservation Corps, USA

Toni Schmiegelow, Executive Director, New York City Volunteer Corps, USA

Prof. Michael Sherraden, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

Prof. Jon Van Til, Rutgers University USA

Cam Tredennick, Student, University of Southern California, USA

National Youth Service : A Global Perspective

Donald J. Eberly, Editor
National Service Secretariat , Washington, D.C.Based on the advanced papers and discussions held at the conference, National Youth Service : A Global Perspective, held at the Wingspread Conference Center, Wisconsin, 18-21 June 1992.

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