Download the whole bookBreaking Down Barriers 1945 -1975
30 years of voluntary service for peace with Service Civil International
Edited by Olivier Bertrand January 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Recently, in 2006, a few long-term SCI volunteers from three continents met again after, in some instances, as many as 45 years. They found that, despite very different origins and pathways, their SCI experience had had a decisive impact on their life and outlook, with many of the same values and ideals still enduring. That gathering formed the genesis of this book.
Taken together these stories represent a significant contribution to the history of SCI and, more generally, document the commitment, voluntary spirit and idealism of young people of that generation. They can provide useful food for thought to those who are volunteers today.
- Foreword
- Preface by Arthur Gillette
- The Origins
- After the Reconstruction of Europe: A Worldwide Development
- European leadership and volunteers in the `60s and `70s
- East-West Workcamps
- Working with conscientious objectors and immigrants
- Asia After World War II
- Introduction
- Establishment of the Indian Branch
- Changing role of long-term volunteers
- Asian Secretariat changes location
- Homage
- Golden period in SCI-India
- Summary
- Devinder Das Chopra, 1951
- Marius and Marianne Boelsma-Studinger, 1952
- Hiroatsu Sato, 1956
- Phyllis Sato, 1956
- Valli Seshan, 1957
- Alhaj M.A. Salam, 1959
- Shigeo Kobayashi, 1960
- Elizabeth Crook, 1962
- Roger Gwynn, 1964
- Marie Catherine Petit, 1964
- Faruque Alamgir,1965
- Ann Kobayashi, 1965
- Cathy Peel, 1965
- Bhupendra Kishore, 1966
- Linda Whitaker, 1969
- Juliet Pierce, 1970
- Solvig Starborg, 1971
- Fiona Ferguson, 1971
- Martin Pierce, 1972
- John Neligan, 1973
- SCI in North Africa
- Homage to Pierre Martin
- Algeria before independence
- North Africa after independence
- SCI in West Africa