John Crownover This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. People Profiles

   www.apl.com/boomerangbox/p1202 - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/24/2004   Last Visited: 1/23/2005

   John Crownover:
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   John Crownover: Helping Bring Peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina
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   That's the challenge John Crownover takes on every day in his job as a Program Manager for CARE's Civil Society Development Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
   
   It's difficult work, but John enjoys it because he feels it is making a difference. He knows that his work will not just affect the way people treat each other today and tomorrow, but whether they can live peacefully together for years and decades into the future.
   
   CARE's Civil Society Program works in five countries that have had civil wars over the last decade: Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Can you find these countries on a map? John supervises 13 staff people working in these countries. He and his staff travel from country to country helping people learn what it means to live peacefully.
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   John and his staff want to help the people of Bosnia learn what it is like to live in peace without having to be afraid of wars or attacks.

2. 2. pblearning phase 2

   www.cpcc.ottawa.on.ca/pblearni - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/24/2000   Last Visited: 3/11/2003

   John Crownover, CARE's civil society program director, notes for instance that it is important to make sure programming is connected to the needs of the community. Organizations need to do research, then, to determine precisely what those needs are. Donors, in turn, must be open to adjusting their programs to those needs rather than proceeding with a program that fits predetermined criteria. The latter rather than the former is, lamentably, too often the case. Indeed, CARE's program appears to be the exception to the rule, as Hata Mašinovic indicated in her remarks above.
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   It is partly addressed, as John Crownover noted, by ensuring that there are resources in the local community to carry on after the donor organization leaves.
   
   Lesson 8: Peacebuilding sometimes involves taking carefully calculated risks and experimentation. While planning and strategic focus are important, in some instances, an organization may need to take a risk in order to kick-start a process.
   
   Some of CARE's most important accomplishments in BiH involved taking a risk. For example, its concern that social policy issues were being forgotten in the rush to reconstruct Bosnia, led CARE in 1997 to push for a cross-entity conference on social policy issues. It was the first conference of its kind to cross ethnic boundaries and did so at considerable risk.
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   John Crownover, Program Manager, Civil Society Development Program, BiH