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Lindsay Coates
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Lindsay Coates is Executive Vice President at InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based nongovernmental international organizations, and a former civil rights attorney.

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Why President Obama's Peace Corps is Relevant

Posted March 28, 2011 | 19:06:43 (EST)

This month, my daughter left for Morocco, an eager volunteer in the Peace Corps, a program created exactly half a century ago by President John F. Kennedy with the goal of spreading peace and friendship.

About 200,000 volunteers have served in 139 nations and my daughter,...

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Land Tenure: Haiti's Elephant in the Room

Posted July 12, 2010 | 16:23:07 (EST)

Imagine if every man, woman and child now living in Washington, D.C., suddenly became homeless due to a natural disaster. Double that number and you have an idea of just how many people were left homeless in Haiti by the January 12 earthquake. Remember how D.C. was paralyzed this past...

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