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The Carter Center
Founded	April 6, 1982; 42 years ago
Founder	Jimmy Carter; Rosalynn Carter
Type	Not-for-profit, non-governmental organization; (IRS exemption status): 501(c)(3)
Tax ID no.	58-1454716
Focus	Human rights, Conflict resolution, Election monitoring, Public health, Eradication of infectious diseases, Mental health
Location	One Copenhill; 453 Freedom Parkway; Atlanta, Georgia, United States;
Area served	Global (75 countries since 1982)
Method	Popular education, Access to information, Aid distribution
Key people	Jimmy Carter, co-founder; Rosalynn Carter, co-founder; Paige Alexander, chief executive officer;
Employees	175; field office staff in more than a dozen countries
Website	cartercenter.org
	Partnered with Emory University

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The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He and his wife Rosalynn Carter partnered with Emory University after his defeat in the 1980 United States presidential election. The center is located in a shared building adjacent to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum on 37 acres (150,000 m²) of parkland, on the site of the razed neighborhood of Copenhill, two miles (3 km) from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The library and museum are owned and operated by the United States National Archives and Records Administration, while the center is governed by a Board of Trustees, consisting of business leaders, educators, former government officials, and philanthropists.

The Carter Center's goal is to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering,^[3] including helping improve the quality of life for people in more than 80 countries.^[4] The center has many projects including election monitoring, supporting locally led state-building and democratic institution-building in various countries, mediating conflicts between warring states, and intervening with heads of states on behalf of victims of human rights abuses. It also leads disease eradication efforts, spearheading the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, as well as controlling and treating onchocerciasis, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria through awareness campaigns.

In 2002, Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work "to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" through the Carter Center.^[5] In 2007, he wrote an autobiography entitled Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope, which chronicles the first 25 years of The Carter Center.

History

The center was founded in 1982^[6] and dedicated in 1986 with William Foege as its executive director.^[7]

In 1993, John Hardman was appointed executive director, and during the 1990s the center received several multimillion-dollar donations to fight Guinea worm disease and to prevent blindness.^[8]

In 1994, the center launched an initiative called "Not Even One" to fight child death by firearm.^[9] They decided to expand the program on March 25, 1997, effective April 1 of the same year. ^[10]

On October 2, 1995, The Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum was held at The Carter Center.^[11]

Governance

The center is governed by a board of trustees, which oversees the organization’s assets and property and promotes its objectives and goals.^[12]^[13] In November 2015, Jason Carter, grandson of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, became Chair of the board of trustees.^[14]

A community advisory group – the Board of Councilors – includes public and private-sector leaders who support The Carter Center and its activities in their communities and organizations. Members attend quarterly presentations on the center’s work.^[15]

The CEO of The Carter Center is Paige Alexander, appointed on June 16, 2020.^[16]^[17] Her predecessor was (Ret.) Ambassador Mary Ann Peters^[18] who served in the position since 2014.^[1]

Center-based councils of eminent persons who offer guidance to or participate in center activities include: the Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas,^[19] the International Task Force for Disease Eradication,^[20] and the Mental Health Task Force.^[21] The Carter Center also collaborates with other public and private organizations.

Peace programs

Observing elections

The Carter Center performs election monitoring, sending teams of observers to determine the legitimacy of 115 elections^[22] in 40 countries since 1989.^[23] Scholars of election monitoring consider the Carter Center to be a "high-quality" election monitor.^[24] The Carter Center played an important role in the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observers, which codifies rules of best practices for election monitors.^[25]

Carter Center observers analyze election laws, assess voter education and registration processes, and evaluate fairness in campaigns. The presence of impartial election observers deters interference or fraud in the voting process, and reassures voters that they can safely and secretly cast their ballots and that vote tabulation will be conducted without tampering.^[26]

Teams typically include 30-100 highly qualified impartial observers – regional leaders, political scientists, regional specialists, and election observation professionals.^{[citation needed]}

The Carter Center sends observers only when invited by a country’s electoral authorities and welcomed by the major political parties. Observers do not interfere in the electoral process and do not represent the U.S. government.^[27]

The center’s endorsement of the electoral process in the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum has been disputed by the Center for Security Policy.^[28] Fox News' Doug Schoen told Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report, "Our internal sourcing tells us that there was fraud in the Venezuelan central commission.^[29] The Carter Center looked into the allegations and released a paper and statistical analysis reaffirming their original conclusions.^[30]

The center played a key role – with the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division and the National Democratic Institute – in building consensus on a common set of international principles for election observation.^[31] It is also leading the effort to develop effective methodologies for observing elections that employ new electronic voting technologies.^[32]

In the 2020 US election, the Carter Center observed parts of the process at home for the first time in the history of the United States. In this context, the center conducted information campaigns in advance to strengthen confidence in the election process.^[33] On November 13, 2020, the center announced that it would monitor the hand recount in Georgia to "help bolster transparency and confidence in election results.^[34]^[35]

Strengthening democracy beyond elections

The Carter Center supports the growth of democratic institutions to ensure that there is a respect for rule of law and human rights, that government decisions are open and transparent, and that everyone can have adequate resources to compete fairly for public office.^{[citation needed]}

For example, the center is supporting the efforts of civic leaders in Ethiopia to convene discussions about the most pressing and contentious political and social issues facing the country, and in the Palestinian Territories, it maintains a small presence in Ramallah focused on the ongoing monitoring and analysis of critical issues of democratic development.^[36]

Democratic initiatives in Latin America include support for regional access-to-information programs, creation of an inter-American support network, and reform of political campaign financing. The center-based Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas plays an important role in accomplishing these objectives.^[37]

The Carter Center also promotes the dissemination to emerging democracies and regional organizations of models, lessons, and best practices for democratic governance. The goal is to empower those in transitioning countries who are trying to build stronger democratic institutions and practices.^{[citation needed]}

Advancing human rights

The Carter Center believes all people are entitled to basic human rights. These rights include political rights, such as peace, freedom, and self-governance, as well as the social rights of health care, food, shelter, and economic opportunity.^{[citation needed]}

The center actively supports human rights defenders around the world. In partnership with Human Rights First and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Center holds an annual human rights defenders policy forum hosted by President Carter in Atlanta.^[38]

President and Mrs. Carter have intervened with heads of state on behalf of human rights defenders and victims for more than 20 years. They often take their human rights concerns to heads of state in personal meetings and through letters.^{[citation needed]}

The center and President Carter are strong supporters of the U.N. Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court.^[39] Both oppose the death penalty and urge its abolition in the U.S.^[40]^[41]

Mediating conflict

Recalling President Carter’s success in the White House negotiating the long-lasting peace treaty between Israel and Egypt,^[42] groups in conflict turn to The Carter Center to help them prevent and resolve conflict. Lacking any official authority, the center has become a trusted broker for peace, serving as a channel for dialogue and negotiation.^{[citation needed]}

Recent examples include:

President Carter’s mission to North Korea in 1994, which paved the way for a U.S.-North Korea pact on nuclear issues.^[43]
Assisting unofficial Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in designing a model agreement for peace – called the Geneva Accord – in 2002 and 2003.^[44]
Negotiation of the Nairobi Agreement in 1999 between Sudan and Uganda^[45]
President Carter’s mission to Haiti in 1994 with Senator Sam Nunn and the then former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell to avert a U.S.-led multinational invasion and restore to power Haiti’s democratically elected president.^[46]
President Carter’s historic trip to Cuba in 2002 to seek improved U.S.-Cuban relations^[47]
Negotiation of a cease-fire in 1995 in Sudan to allow humanitarian groups treat Guinea worm disease and river blindness and immunize children.
Holding summits in Egypt and Tunisia in 1995 and 1996 to address violence in the Great Lakes region of Africa^[48]
An agreement on the restoration of low-level diplomatic relations between Colombia and Ecuador under a deal brokered by the former president, as announced by the Carter Center on June 8, 2008.^[49]^[50]

Assisting China village elections

Since 1988, the Chinese government has authorized direct village elections to help maintain social and political order in the context of rapid economic reforms. At the invitation of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Carter Center initiated a joint project in 1998 to standardize Chinese village election procedures and assist in training of election officials and elected National People’s Congress deputies. In 2011, the Carter Center decided to focus on advancing the US- China relationship, and since 2015 has been promoting greater Africa-U.S.-China cooperation.^[51]^[52]

Health programs

The center has prevented the suffering of millions of people around the world from illnesses often ignored by others. Health programs seek to provide people with the information and access to services they need to treat their illnesses and take steps to prevent future spread of disease. An emphasis is placed on building partnerships for change among international agencies, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations and on working with ministries of health to strengthen or establish permanent health care delivery systems in the poorest nations.^{[citation needed]}

During his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Carter commented on what he felt is the greatest challenge the world faces:^{[citation needed]}

“Among all the possible choices, I decided that the most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now 75 times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them. The results of this disparity are root causes of most of the world’s unresolved problems, including starvation, illiteracy, environmental degradation, violent conflict and unnecessary illnesses that range from Guinea worm to HIV/AIDS. Tragically, in the industrialized world there is a terrible absence of understanding or concern about those who are enduring lives of despair and hopelessness. We have not yet made the commitment to share with others an appreciable part of our excessive wealth. This is a necessary and potentially rewarding burden that we should all be willing to assume."^[53]^[54]

Disease eradication efforts

The Carter Center began spearheading the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease worldwide in 1986. At the time, there were about 3.5 million annual cases of the disease in 20 countries in Africa and Asia. In 2016, there were 25 reported cases in three countries: South Sudan, Chad, and Ethiopia.^[55] Guinea worm disease is poised to be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and the only disease to be eradicated without the use of vaccines or drugs.^[56]

Within affected countries, the center reinforces existing disease eradication programs by providing technical and financial assistance, as well as logistics and tools, such as donated filter cloth material, larvicide, and medical kits.^[57]

The International Task Force for Disease Eradication has been based at The Carter Center since its formation in 1988. The group has reviewed more than 100 infectious diseases and identified six as potentially eradicable – dracunculiasis, poliomyelitis, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis, and cysticercosis.^[58]

Implementing disease control and treatment measures

Since 1996, the center has been a leader in the fight against onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness – a parasitic disease transmitted by the bites of black flies.^[59]

The center has worked to stop the spread of the disease in 11 countries across Africa and the Americas by helping residents and local health workers institute and sustain drug treatment programs and health education activities. The international river blindness campaign seeks to eliminate the disease from the Western Hemisphere by 2015.^[60]

The center has distributed more than 125 million doses of Mectizan (ivermectin)^[61] – a drug donated by Merck & Co., Inc., that treats and prevents river blindness.^[62]

Center health workers also prevent transmission of trachoma – a bacterial infection that is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Trachoma is prevalent in places that lack the tools for basic hygiene, clean water, and adequate sanitation.^[63]

The Center follows the World Health Organization’s four-pronged approach – called the SAFE strategy – to fight trachoma in six African countries.^[64] The Trachoma Control Program is working to improve sanitation in those communities by building latrines, providing corrective surgery, distributing antibiotics, and educating communities on basic hygiene.^{[citation needed]}

As of March 2010^[update], The Carter Center has helped to build more than one million latrines in its effort to fight trachoma.^[61]

The latrines contain human waste, preventing it from serving as a breeding ground for the disease-carrying flies, thereby reducing one way the disease is spread.^[65]

Lymphatic filariasis and malaria are mosquito-borne diseases also targeted by The Carter Center. The center has distributed four million long-lasting insecticidal bed nets.^[61] It has also established drug distribution systems in Nigeria to treat and stem the spread of lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis.^[66]

Training public health workers

The Carter Center believes in building networks of village-based health care workers to treat people for various diseases at the same time. Emphasis is on helping national and local governments establish programs that they can sustain into the future.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1997, the center established with the Ethiopian ministries of health and education the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative to improve academic training for health care personnel in Ethiopia and increase access to health care in rural communities throughout the country.^{[citation needed]}

Strengthening agricultural production

In partnership with the Sasakawa Africa Association, the center has worked since 1986 in 15 sub-Saharan African countries to teach 8-10 million small-scale farmers improved techniques that double or triple their crop yields.^[67]

The program promotes use of fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, soil fertility, and environmentally friendly agronomic methods of crop production. It also supports efforts to construct quality grain storage to sustain market prices for the farmer and ensure greater food security, establish farmers' associations, and use quality food crops such as high-protein maize.^{[citation needed]}

Reducing stigma of mental illness

Rosalynn Carter led the center’s efforts to fight stigma associated with mental illness. The center works to improve U.S. public policies that can help prevent mental illnesses and increase equity in mental health care, holding an annual symposium with national leaders in mental health and other fields.

The center also seeks to raise public awareness of mental health issues globally through the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism, which enable journalists to explore mental health issues. To date, more than 100 journalists have participated in the program.^[68]

Accolades

Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work through the Carter Center.^[5] The Carter Center received the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding in 1999—an award administered by the University of Georgia.^[69]

In 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presented the Carter Center with the Gates Award for Global Health.^[70]

The center was awarded Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services for 2013–14.^[71]

Annual weekend

Since 1992, the Carter Center has organized an annual weekend.^[vague] In 2019, for the first time, part of the event program was opened to the media, a discussion on human rights.^[72] An important part of the event is an auction that raised $1.6 million in 2013^[73] and $4 million in 2018.^[72]

Funding

In 2007, Alan Dershowitz, an American attorney, alleged on a pro-Israel website that the center's focus "is away from significant Arab abuses and on Israel's far less serious ones" and that this is influenced by the center's receipt of donations from Arab sources.^[74] One of the initial contributors to the center was Bank of Commerce and Credit International founder Agha Hasan Abedi, who donated $500,000. Abedi and BCCI also donated $8 million to Carter's Global 2000 project.^[75]

According to the center, which discloses all donations over $1000, 2.5 percent of the total amount of contributions it has received since its founding in 1982 thru 2016 were from donors in Middle East Arab nations.^[76]

Of the donations from the Middle East, the center stated that:

"83% of those funds have helped to support health programs in Africa, 9.8% have gone to the center's endowment, 2.7% were for original construction of buildings at our headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and 4.5% for projects to directly promote peace, such as specific election observations."^[76]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The Carter Center Annual Report 2008-09 (PDF). Atlanta: The Carter Center. 2010. p. 2.
^ The Carter Center Annual Report 2008-09 (PDF). Atlanta: The Carter Center. 2010. pp. 80–81.
^ "The Carter Center At 30 Years". GeorgiaTrend. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
^ "The Carter Center – Waging Peace. Fighting Disease". The Carter Center.
^ ^a ^b Norwegian Nobel Committee, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize announcement, [1], October 11, 2002, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ Suggs, Ernie; Journal-Constitution, The Atlanta. "Jimmy Carter gets new title: oldest living former president". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
^ "Timeline and History of The Carter Center [1981-1989]". The Carter Center. Archived from the original on November 1, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
^ "Timeline and History of The Carter Center [1990-1999]". The Carter Center. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
^ Various (February 1994). "Not Even One, A Report on the Crisis of Children and Firearms" (PDF). The Carter Center: 6–10. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ "Carter Center Expands 'Not Even One' Program". The Carter Center. March 25, 1997. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ Various (October 2, 1995). "Within Community, the Report of the First Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum" (PDF). The Carter Center: 1.
^ "The Carter Center, Introduction to the Carter Center" (PDF). The Carter Center: 1. 2004.
^ "Board of Trustees". The Carter Center. May 30, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ Payne, Barbara (16 August 2015). "Former State Sen. Jason Carter Appointed Chair of Carter Center Board". Atlanta Progressive News. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ "Board of Councilors". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
^ "The Carter Center announces new CEO appointment". CBS46 News Atlanta. Retrieved 2020-11-16.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Paige Alexander". www.cartercenter.org. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
^ "Amb. (Ret.) Mary Ann Peters | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
^ "A Peace Organization Making Peace Around The World - Carter Center". Archived from the original on 2015-10-24.
^ "International Disease Control and Prevention - Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication".
^ "A Mental Health Organization Combatting the Stigma of Mental Illness - The Carter Center Mental Health Program".
^ "Carter Center list of elections observed".
^ The Carter Center, The Carter Center: Waging Peace Through Elections, accessed September 19, 2010.
^ Bush, Sarah Sunn; Cottiero, Christina; Prather, Lauren (2024). "Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring". The Review of International Organizations. doi:10.1007/s11558-024-09554-3. ISSN 1559-744X.
^ Bush, Sarah Sunn; Cottiero, Christina; Prather, Lauren (2024). "Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring". The Review of International Organizations. doi:10.1007/s11558-024-09554-3. ISSN 1559-744X.
^ "The Carter Center: Observing Elections Around The World". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ The Carter Center, "How does The Carter Center choose which elections to monitor?" Archived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ J. Michael Waller, ""What to Do about Venezuela?"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 30, 2007. (75.0 KiB) Occasional Papers 6 Center for Security Policy May 2005, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ "The National Interest: Exit polls in Venezuela". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
^ Carter Center, 17 September 2004, Report on an Analysis of the Representativeness of the Second Audit Sample, and the Correlation between Petition Signers and the Yes Vote in the Aug. 15, 2004 Presidential Recall Referendum in Venezuela, accessed 20 February 2010
^ United Nations, "Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers"^[usurped], October 27, 2005, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ Carter Center, "Developing a Methodology for Observing Electronic Voting", October 2007, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ "The Carter Center". Retrieved 2020-11-23.
^ "CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos". lite.cnn.com. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
^ Russell, Dale (2020-11-13). "For the first time ever the Carter Center will monitor an American election". FOX 5 Atlanta. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
^ Deborah Hakes, "Carter Center Field Office in Ramallah", May 4, 2007, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ Members of the Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas, "Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas - Carter Center Americas Program - CarterCenter.org". Archived from the original on 2008-01-31. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
^ Carter Center Human Rights Defenders Initiative, [2], accessed December 19, 2008.
^ "Human Rights Program". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ "How the ICC Works". International Criminal Court Project. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ "Human Rights Topic: Death Penalty". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ "Index of /documents/campdavid".
^ Jimmy Carter, "Solving the Korean Stalemate, One Step at a Time", New York Times, October 11, 2006, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ BBC News, "Moderates Launch Middle East Plan", December 1, 2003, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ Carter Center Press Release, "Agreement Between Governments of Sudan and Uganda, Nairobi Agreement" Archived 2008-05-18 at the Wayback Machine, December 8, 1999, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ Larry Rohter, "SHOWDOWN WITH HAITI: DIPLOMACY; Carter, in Haiti, Pursues Peaceful Shift", New York Times, September 18, 1994, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ BBC News, "Lift Cuba embargo, Carter tells U.S.", May 15, 2002, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ Carter Center Press Release, "African Leaders Gather to Address Great Lakes Crisis" Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, May 2, 1996, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ "Ecuador and Colombia Presidents Accept President Carter's Proposal to Renew Diplomatic Relations at the Level of Chargé d'Affaires, Immediately and Without Preconditions" (Press release). The Carter Center. 2008-06-08. Retrieved 2008-12-19.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Colombia, Ecuador restore ties under deal with Carter". Thomson Reuters. 2008-06-08. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
^ "Trilateral Cooperation Research Series". The Carter Center. September 27, 2019. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ Aboaf, Callie (2019). "U.S.-China Collaboration in Creating and Supporting the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" (PDF). The Carter Center (4): 2.
^ "Ability Magazine: The Carter Center". Retrieved 2012-04-06.
^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2002". The Nobel Prize. December 10, 2002. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ "Guinea Worm Disease: Case Countdown". Carter Center. Archived from the original on 2014-01-21. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
^ Biswas, Gautam; Sankara, Dieudonne P.; Agua-Agum, Junerlyn; Maïga, Alhousseini (August 5, 2013). "Dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease): eradication without a drug or a vaccine". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 368 (1623). doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0146. PMC 3720044. PMID 23798694.
^ Donald G. McNeil, Jr., "Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease", New York Times, March 26, 2006, accessed February 2, 2014.
^ "Disease Control and Prevention - Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication".
^ "Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA)". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ "Pan American Health Organization Passes Resolution to Interrupt Transmission of River Blindness in Latin America by 2012", [3], accessed on November 4, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Eye of the Eagle, March 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 1)]" (PDF). The Carter Center. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
^ "Home - Mectizan Donation Program".
^ "Trachoma Control Program". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
^ Paul M. Emerson, Matthew Burton, Anthony W. Solomon, Robin Bailey, & David Mabey, "The SAFE strategy for trachoma control: using operational research for policy, planning and implementation", WHO, August 2006, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ Mark Bixler, "Latrine program a hit: project deals with health, gender", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 5, 2005, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ Carter Center, "New Malaria Program Blankets Areas of Ethiopia with Bed Nets", Carter Center News, June 12, 2007, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ Sasakawa Africa Association, [4] Archived 2009-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on December 19, 2008.
^ "The Carter Center Awards 2009-2010 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism", [5], accessed on November 4, 2009.
^ "1999 Delta Prize Announcement: The Carter Center" Archived August 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, April 27, 1999, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ "2006 Gates Award for Global Health: The Carter Center" Archived January 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, 2006, accessed December 19, 2008.
^ "Awards Centre". Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b Sullivan, Kevin; Jordan, Mary. "At a retreat, Carter and Mondale talked about the old days, and went after Trump". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
^ Poole, Shelia; Journal-Constitution, The Atlanta. "Carter Center's annual auction brings in $1.6 million". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
^ Alan M. Dershowitz, Ex-President for Sale, StandWithUs.
^ "16 - BCCI And Georgia Politicians".
^ ^a ^b Background on the Carter Center's Middle East Funding, last accessed November 4, 2009

External links

[AR08-09_Work_Glance-1] The Carter Center Annual Report 2008-09 (PDF). Atlanta: The Carter Center. 2010. p. 2.

[AR08-09_World-2] The Carter Center Annual Report 2008-09 (PDF). Atlanta: The Carter Center. 2010. pp. 80–81.

[3] "The Carter Center At 30 Years". GeorgiaTrend. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2013.

[4] "The Carter Center – Waging Peace. Fighting Disease". The Carter Center.

[Nobel_Prize-5] Norwegian Nobel Committee, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize announcement, [1], October 11, 2002, accessed December 19, 2008.

[6] Suggs, Ernie; Journal-Constitution, The Atlanta. "Jimmy Carter gets new title: oldest living former president". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-11-19.

[timeline-7] "Timeline and History of The Carter Center [1981-1989]". The Carter Center. Archived from the original on November 1, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.

[8] "Timeline and History of The Carter Center [1990-1999]". The Carter Center. Retrieved October 12, 2009.

[9] Various (February 1994). "Not Even One, A Report on the Crisis of Children and Firearms" (PDF). The Carter Center: 6–10. Retrieved October 3, 2023.

[10] "Carter Center Expands 'Not Even One' Program". The Carter Center. March 25, 1997. Retrieved 2023-10-03.

[11] Various (October 2, 1995). "Within Community, the Report of the First Annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum" (PDF). The Carter Center: 1.

[12] "The Carter Center, Introduction to the Carter Center" (PDF). The Carter Center: 1. 2004.

[13] "Board of Trustees". The Carter Center. May 30, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-03.

[14] Payne, Barbara (16 August 2015). "Former State Sen. Jason Carter Appointed Chair of Carter Center Board". Atlanta Progressive News. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[15] "Board of Councilors". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-01-30.

[16] "The Carter Center announces new CEO appointment". CBS46 News Atlanta. Retrieved 2020-11-16.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[17] "Paige Alexander". www.cartercenter.org. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

[18] "Amb. (Ret.) Mary Ann Peters | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-11-18.

[19] "A Peace Organization Making Peace Around The World - Carter Center". Archived from the original on 2015-10-24.

[20] "International Disease Control and Prevention - Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication".

[21] "A Mental Health Organization Combatting the Stigma of Mental Illness - The Carter Center Mental Health Program".

[22] "Carter Center list of elections observed".

[elections-23] The Carter Center, The Carter Center: Waging Peace Through Elections, accessed September 19, 2010.

[:03-24] Bush, Sarah Sunn; Cottiero, Christina; Prather, Lauren (2024). "Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring". The Review of International Organizations. doi:10.1007/s11558-024-09554-3. ISSN 1559-744X.

[:02-25] Bush, Sarah Sunn; Cottiero, Christina; Prather, Lauren (2024). "Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring". The Review of International Organizations. doi:10.1007/s11558-024-09554-3. ISSN 1559-744X.

[26] "The Carter Center: Observing Elections Around The World". The Carter Center. Retrieved 2023-10-03.

[27] The Carter Center, "How does The Carter Center choose which elections to monitor?" Archived October 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed on December 19, 2008.

[28] J. Michael Waller, ""What to Do about Venezuela?"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 30, 2007. (75.0 KiB) Occasional Papers 6 Center for Security Policy May 2005, accessed December 19, 2008.

[29] "The National Interest: Exit polls in Venezuela". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2024.

[30] Carter Center, 17 September 2004, Report on an Analysis of the Representativeness of the Second Audit Sample, and the Correlation between Petition Signers and the Yes Vote in the Aug. 15, 2004 Presidential Recall Referendum in Venezuela, accessed 20 February 2010

[31] United Nations, "Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers"^[usurped], October 27, 2005, accessed on December 19, 2008.

[32] Carter Center, "Developing a Methodology for Observing Electronic Voting", October 2007, accessed December 19, 2008.

[33] "The Carter Center". Retrieved 2020-11-23.

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v t e Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States (1977–1981) 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) Georgia State Senator (1963–1967)
Presidency (timeline)	Transition Inauguration Timeline 1977 1978 1979 1980 January 1981 Political positions Judicial appointments controversies Executive Actions Executive Order 12036 Executive Order 12086 Executive Order 12148 Executive Order 12170 Executive Order 12172 Carter bonds Rabbit incident Carter Doctrine Camp David Accords Egypt–Israel peace treaty Torrijos–Carter Treaties Iran hostage crisis Operation Eagle Claw Canadian Caper Engagement with Ruhollah Khomeini 1979 oil crisis Support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War Diplomatic relations with China Goldwater v. Carter Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 Senior Executive Service Strategic Arms Limitation Talks International trips 1980 Summer Olympics boycott Cannabis policy Community Reinvestment Act Airline Deregulation Act Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 Clean Water Act of 1977 Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1977 Electronic Fund Transfer Act Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 Right to Financial Privacy Act Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act Superfund Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Solar power at the White House Three Mile Island accident Presidential transition of Ronald Reagan
Speeches	Moral Equivalent of War Island of Stability A Crisis of Confidence State of the Union Addresses 1978 1979 1980 1981
Elections	Georgia gubernatorial elections 1966 1970 Democratic Party presidential primaries 1976 1980 Democratic National Conventions 1972 1976 1980 Presidential elections 1976 campaign 1980
Post-presidency	Carter Center Presidential Library and Museum Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project The Elders Jimmy Carter National Historical Park Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter House Nairobi Agreement, 1999 One America Appeal Continuity of Government Commission
Books	Everything to Gain (1987) The Hornet's Nest (2003) Our Endangered Values (2006) Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006) reaction and commentary Beyond the White House (2007) We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land (2009) White House Diary (2010) A Call to Action (2014) A Full Life (2015)
Awards and honors	Nobel Peace Prize Presidential Medal of Freedom Freedom of the City Silver Buffalo Award Philadelphia Liberty Medal United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights Hoover Medal Christopher Award Carter–Menil Human Rights Prize Grammy Award
Legacy	Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue (1976) USS Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter National Historical Park (1987) Georgia State Capitol statue (1994)
Related	Residences Birthplace Home Mary Prince (nanny) UFO incident Jimmy Carter (2002 television documentary) Man from Plains (2007 documentary)
Family	Rosalynn Carter (wife) Jack Carter (son) Amy Carter (daughter) Jason Carter (grandson) James Earl Carter Sr. (father) Lillian Gordy Carter (mother) Gloria Carter Spann (sister) Ruth Carter Stapleton (sister) Billy Carter (brother) Emily Dolvin (aunt) Hugh Carter (cousin)
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v t e Rosalynn Carter
Work	Carter Center Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project Friendship Force International Vaccinate Your Family
Books	First Lady from Plains (1984) Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life (1987)
Family	Jimmy Carter (husband) Amy Carter (daughter) Jack Carter (son) Jason Carter (grandson)
Homes	Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter House
Related	Mary Prince Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

v t e Election and democracy support/reform organizations
Internationally focused NGOs	The Carter Center Centre for Democracy and Development (Africa) Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa International Foundation for Electoral Systems Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy World Movement for Democracy European Partnership for Democracy Demo Finland
Intergovernmental organizations	Association of Central and Eastern European Election Officials International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance European Endowment for Democracy United Nations Development Programme Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Governmental/ government-funded organizations	Westminster Foundation for Democracy International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (defunct) International Republican Institute National Democratic Institute National Endowment for Democracy Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
Country focused NGOs	Bersih (Malaysia) Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (Georgia) Europe-Georgia Institute (Georgia) Citizens' Group on Electoral Process (Pakistan) Coalition for Free and Open Elections (US) Shayfeencom (Egypt) Democracy Watch (Canada) Electoral Reform Society (UK) Institute for Election Systems Development (Russia) Fair Vote Canada (Canada) FairVote (US) Israel Democracy Institute National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Philippines) Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (Philippines) Unlock Democracy (UK)

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