Talk:Carter Center

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I'd support putting an NPOV tag on this article. The criticism section is longer than the rest of the article, and is half composed of irrelevant attacks against Carter's controversial book on Palestine.

I have 2 words for Mr Carter, "Never Again"

I second the NPOV tag - and substantial paring down of the criticism section. Even the "Jimmy Carter" wikipedia entry itself doesn't have as much opinionated content, although there is a succinct mention of the controversial aspect of his Palestine book. This entry is about The Carter Center and it's work. Criticism is worthy of note; but objectivity is needed. Ddwyer 23:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

"who were also more committed to Israeli expansionism and the oppression of the Palestinians than intellectual integrity and honesty"  Even though I might agree with this statement, it screams POV. I removed it. Don&#39;t Be Evil (talk) 04:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

The most recent edit in the Controversy section is factually incorrect. The wording suggests that several fellows resigned. The only fellow who resigned was Ken Stein. He had not directed a program at the Center for 14 years. He was a member of the Center's Palestinian election monitoring team in 1996, but by 2006 he was a fellow in title only. I called the Carter Center to verify. Ddwyer (talk) 14:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I am not logged in but I came to this entry in conjunction with following the news of Jimmy Carter's upcoming meeting with Hamas leaders, I would think that the comments above have been more than compensated for. Now this article is totally bland. There is only one tiny analytical, critical paragraph at the very end of the article, and that is even worded apologetically. This article is no longer neutral, it's now a product of the spin-meisters at Carter Center. Time for another NPOV tag! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.105.34.128 (talk) 16:24, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep in mind that this article is about The Carter Center - not the book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid." The book has its own wiki entry, and if you go to the page, there is plenty written about the controversy that is not "totally bland." The relevance of the book controversy to the Center is that it caused one fellow and several members of the advisory board to resign. Hence its inclusion here. Ddwyer (talk) 12:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi everyone- I made a few edits to the controversy section- just explaining what I did. I removed the sentence mentionning funding from Nigeria- feel free to put that back in if you like- but it shouldn't be under a section clearly talking about funding from Arab governments. I also removed the sentence which ran along the lines of: these donations are encouraged by the Carter Center's consistent pro-Arab: Anti-Israel viewpoint- because that seemed to me to be clearly a point of view rather than fact. Certainly the Carter Center and President Carter would dispute this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray564k (talk • contribs) 15:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Added back the section on Controversy. While I do think the original section was overly POV, there is some controversy about the Center, and leaving it out is POV too.--Thalia42 (talk) 06:46, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Suggested updates throughout article
Greetings from the Communications Office at The Carter Center. I am new at this, so please forgive any rookie missteps.

This article is generally good but is quite outdated, as Carter Center leadership and programs have changed significantly over time. Your best sources for information about the organization are, and the most recent annual report, accessible here:. In order to honor Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, we are refraining from making any changes ourselves to the article, but we suggest the following revisions:

In the information box in the right column:

Area served


 * More than 80 countries since 1982.

Key people


 * Oz Nelson has retired; the current chair of the board of trustees is Jason Carter, whose own Wikipedia article also should be updated.


 * John Stremlau has retired; the current vice president for peace programs is Jordan Ryan, whose article also is outdated.


 * Donald Hopkins has moved into an advisory role; the current vice president for health programs is Dean G. Sienko, who does not have a Wikipedia article but probably should.

The box correctly lists Mary Ann Peters as CEO, but she is not mentioned in the History section of the main article. It should state that she became CEO on September 2, 2014. Also, Peters' article does not reflect her move to The Carter Center.

Governance


 * The number of employees fluctuates; the article should say Peters oversees a staff of about 1,200 worldwide.


 * An editor requested a citation for the number of interns The Carter Center hires. There are three classes of interns each year, with 30-40 interns per class, so saying it averages about 100 per year is accurate. This should suffice as a citation:


 * Please delete the reference to the International Council for Conflict Resolution; that is not a thing.

Observing elections


 * 101 elections in 39 countries is correct, but the old source documents cited would not reflect those figures; please cite the 2014-15 annual report. Also note that these figures are sure to change in coming months as we observe more elections.


 * The second sentence of the second paragraph in this section makes a declaration that we believe to be true but probably should be supported with a citation. This page may serve that purpose:


 * This section would benefit from a paragraph describing ELMO, the electronic election reporting system The Carter Center developed and now uses in all observation missions. Here is suggested wording:


 * Since 2011, election observers have used technology called ELMO (short for Election Monitoring) to gather, collate and analyze polling data in real time. The Carter Center developed ELMO to allow observers to file reports via tablet, SMS or directly online. The software is open source, and The Carter Center encourages other NGOs to use it.

Strengthening democracy beyond elections


 * The second paragraph's reference to Ethiopia should be deleted (as it is no longer true), and use of the term "Palestinian Territories" appears to violate Wikipedia style. Suggested revision of that sentence:


 * For example, the Center maintains a presence in Ramallah focused on the ongoing monitoring and analysis of critical issues of democratic development in Palestine.


 * The final paragraph of this section would benefit from a link to the Democracy Program:.

Advancing human rights


 * For the benefit of users, please link to the Human Rights Program page


 * The second paragraph's mention of the Human Rights Defenders Forum should include this link:


 * This section of the article omits the program's current priority initiative, Mobilizing Faith for Women and Girls, inspired by President Carter's 2014 book "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power".

Mediating conflict


 * The bulleted list probably should drop the word "Recent," as some of the events date back to the early 1990s.


 * The list should include the Center's efforts to bring together key parties in the current Syrian conflict, as well as its creation and hosting of the Syria Conflict Mapping Project.

Health programs


 * The first sentence in this section should specifically use the term Neglected Tropical Diseases ; it would be useful then to name the NTDs for which the Carter Center has programs: Guinea worm, onchocerciasis (river blindness), trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and schistosomiasis.


 * In addition, the article should mention the Center's Hispaniola Initiative, aimed at eliminating malaria and lymphatic filariasis by 2020 on the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


 * The placement of the lengthy quote from President Carter's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (not acceptance speech) under the Health programs heading is curious, but this is an editorial decision we leave in your hands.

Disease eradication efforts


 * The 2013 Guinea worm disease figures should be updated with more recent numbers: In all of 2015 just 22 cases were reported in four countries: Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan. From January through May 2016, just four cases were reported – three in Chad and one in Ethiopia. (These numbers are provisional pending WHO certification.)


 * As for river blindness, The Carter Center currently works with the ministries of health of Brazil, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Venezuela. The disease has been eliminated in Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico; and Guatemala has declared that it too is free of onchocerciasis and is awaiting WHO verification. The term "drug treatment programs" may be ambiguous to your readers; we suggest revising that phrase to "mass drug administration efforts." The 2015 target date for river blindness elimination in the Americas was not met, but less than 1 percent of the world's remaining cases are there.


 * The Center has now assisted in distributing more than 240 million doses of ivermectin. The medication, sold under the brand name Mectizan, is donated by the pharmaceutical company Merck (whose style is no longer Merck & Co. Inc.).


 * The health workers who implement the Carter Center's trachoma program are trained by the Center but are not its employees.


 * The article's latrine figures are out of date. From 2002 through 2015, the Center has helped build about 3.4 million household latrines to suppress the population of flies that spread trachoma.


 * In the effort to control malaria and lymphatic filariasis, The Carter Center and its partners had distributed more than 10 million insecticide-treated bed nets by mid-2011.

Training public health workers


 * At the start of the second paragraph in this section, please change "Since 1997" to "In 1997."

Strengthening agricultural production


 * The Carter Center's agricultural programs are no longer active. This section should be eliminated or rewritten in past tense.

Reducing stigma of mental illness


 * Following Liberia's long civil war and the trauma of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, The Carter Center joined the Liberian Ministries of Health and Education to established a program to train mental health clinicians to practice within Liberian communities. More than 160 Liberians have completed the training.


 * The number of journalists who have received Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism now exceeds 160. Fellowships include a US$10,000 stipend. The program has expanded to include journalists from Colombia, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, and Qatar.


 * The Carter Center works with numerous governmental and non-governmental agencies to develop solutions for the state of Georgia's mental health system. The state reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2010 to resolve egregious inadequacies in the system.


 * The Center's Mental Health Program in 2015 released "The Carter Center Journalism Resource Guide on Behavioral Health" to assist journalists reporting on mental health issues with accuracy, fairness, and sensitivity. http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/health/mental_health/2015-journalism-resource-guide-on-behavioral-health.pdf

Accolades


 * The Carter Center was named to receive the International Association for Impact Assessment's 2016 Institutional Award in recognition of its work with local civil society partners to protect human rights in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


 * In January 2016, the LBJ Foundation presented President Carter with its LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award, and Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela and Vice President Isabel Saint Malo presented President Carter with the Grand Cross grade of the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero, Panama's highest civilian honor.

Annual auction


 * The Center's annual auction raised a record $3.7 million in 2016. The highest bid was for an original oil painting by President Carter, which sold for $750,000.

Controversy


 * We are not requesting any revisions to this section.

See also


 * The correct punctuation of the title of President Carter's book is Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (i.e., no punctuation).

Thank you.

Tcccomms1112 (talk) 19:26, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) ~ Aseleste  (t, e &#124; c, l) 12:25, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Carter Center → The Carter Center – Per the organization's Web site and logo, and the usage in President Carter's book A Full Life. I would do it myself, but the page has already been moved, and a redirect stands in the way. — DocWatson42 (talk) 06:15, 11 May 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose – We don't usually include "The" unless it's essential. The use on the org's site and logo, and in Carter's book, is not sufficient evidence that it's essential. I'm seeing various sources with lowercase the, or dropping it entirely. Dicklyon (talk) 06:47, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose en.wp In ictu oculi (talk) 12:12, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Examples of using a "The" in organization article titles: The Asia Foundation, The Good Food Institute, The Hunger Project, The Resource Foundation. Would more be helpful? (Pardon me—I haven't participated in very many controversial moves, so I am unfamiliar with the procedure.) —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:44, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No need whatsoever for the definite article. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:38, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It is generally discouraged to begin an article title with "The". Rreagan007 (talk) 18:45, 16 May 2021 (UTC)