by Michaela Söllinger, IFOR Austria (This article was also published with minor changes in the Austrian magazine Spinnrad, Vol. 4 (2019)) Picture 1: Sunset over Guaviare harbor Picture 2: Fishing pond in main hamlet of San José de León How does reconciliation happen?...
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Notes from the Peace Community: FORista Writes Home After Leaving Urabá
by FORPP Accompanier Gale Stafford Para español, haz clic aquí October 20th, 2014 Dear Friends, I'm back, I swear I haven't dropped off the face of the earth! (Or even permanently left Colombia!). It's a busy time, but considering that I found a drafted email to you...
Apuntes de la Comunidad de Paz: FORista escribe a casa después de salir de Urabá
por Gale Stafford, acompañante de FORPP For English, click here El 20 de octubre, 2014 Queridxs amigxs, Ya volví, y ¡les prometo que no me he caído del superficie de la tierra! (¡Ni salido permanentemente de Colombia!) Es un tiempo ocupado, pero considerando que...
Tormentas en La Unión, Comunidad de Paz
Click here for English De repente, la vida en La Unión, parte de la Comunidad de Paz, puede convertirse en turbulenta. Las cosas han estado muy tranquilo recientemente, entonces la mayoría de los disturbios vienen en la forma de una manada de caballos quienes han...
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: ACCOMPANIMENT VISIT FOR THE CASE OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR JEFFERSON SHAYANNE ACOSTA ORTIZ
Para español, haz clic aquí Once again it is confirmed that there are no guarantees to exercise the right to object in the army. Last Friday, July 11, at 2:30pm, two members of Collective Action of Conscientious Objectors (Acción Colectiva de Objetores y Objetoras de...
Creating a Conscience
By Ethan Vesely-Flad The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. (Mahatma Gandhi, 1922) As a first-time father, I am newly attuned to the issues of social, spiritual, and ethical formation that consume the minds...
Strengthening young people’s resistance to violence: Why I support FOR
By Michael Harrington Saturday, December 29, 2012, 1:36pm I turned 18 in 1970, and was registered for the draft for the Vietnam war. To the dismay of my father, a career Army officer, I requested conscientious objector status. My Methodist youth pastor helped me walk...
Army’s Round-ups of Youth Continue
By Liza Smith On October 26, two young men from the small town of San Francisco, Antioquia were in Bogota and fell victim to an illegal street round-up. FOR has brought many delegations to this town, where the Antioquia Peasant Association (ACA), an...