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Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow,
Former Director of Peace Corps in Guatemala

Charlie Reilly has just completed five years as director of Peace Corps in Guatemala, one of the largest programs in the world with over 250 volunteers. For the preceding three years, he coordinated civil society outreach programs for the Inter-American Development Bank, after serving for many years as Brazil and Mexico representative, then vice-president of the Inter-American Foundation. He began his Latin American development work as the founding director of Maryknoll's Center for Integral Development in Guatemala. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and has edited five books and written numerous articles, including New Paths to Democratic Development in Latin America: The Rise of NGO - Municipal Government Collaboration (Lynne Rienner, 1995), and with Martin de la Rosa, religion y politica en Mexico, (Siglo XXI, 1985). Reilly has taught at Georgetown and the University of California, San Diego, Universidad Rafael Landivar among other places.

His current research as a Kroc Fellow compares lessons learned from peace-building and development in Guatemala and Ireland. Since he enjoys the confluence of poetry and politics, insights will be drawn from Seamus Heaney and Humberto Ak' abal, as well as social scientists and activists grappling with how education, migration, income distribution and religious and cultural identity aid or inhibit the positive transformation of conflict settings.

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