written by Chris Courtheyn, FOR Peace Presence Board member I offer the following analysis of the recent Colombian plebiscite as a political geographer from the United States, currently working in Colombia, who has worked in solidarity with Colombian human rights...
Peace and Nonviolence
Hope in the Midst of a Violent Crisis: Life in Buenaventura´s Urban Humanitarian Space
By Nikki Drake, accompanier at FOR Peace Presence Article originally published on Upside Down World An alarm of lively music starts each day around 6am, and the street slowly comes to life. Sweetened coffee percolates in houses, fishermen head out in their small...
Conscientious Objector Detained in Arauca
En español: Objetor de Consciencia Retenido en Arauca FOR Peace Presence is concerned about the rights and well-being of a conscientious objector who has been held against his will since April 7, 2014 in a military brigade in the department of Arauca. Background...
Objetor de consciencia retenido en Arauca
In English: Conscientious Objector Detained in Arauca FOR Presente por la Paz está muy preocupado por los derechos y la salud de un objetor de conciencia quien está detenido en contra de su voluntad desde el 7 de abril 2014, en una brigada del ejército Colombiano en...
Urgent Action: Threats Against El Tamarindo
Juan Martinez, community leader of ASOTRACAMPO, of the El Tamarindo community, has this evening recieved death threats to his personal cell phone. The message also threatened Colombian activists who have accompanied ASOTRACAMPO. Please send an email to the [American...
Santos Asks Forgiveness From the Peace Community of San Jose
From El Espectador, translated by FOR Peace Presence. Original: http://bit.ly/1gmXaz1 President Juan Manuel Santos apologized to the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, which opted for peaceful resistance in the midsts of armed conflict, and were in the past...
A Hunka Hunka Burning Blog
By Luke Finn As anyone who has eaten a hamburger in Colombia will know, simply adding good things, one on top of the other, often results in a whole that is somehow less than the sum of its parts. The standard combination of lettuce, and tomato, and onions, and...
This Is Peace: “Walking The Word” in Colombia
By Chris Courtheyn "Caminando la palabra," or “walking the word,” is how Siriaco and Diego*, participants from indigenous Cauca and Guajira communities, described what we had done on our recently completed Peace And Solidarity Pilgrimage to Rodoxalí, in this war-torn...