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
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...
Book review: Snakes and Ladders
By Rene Wadlow Thursday, September 27, 2012, 9:14am The symbolic start of the Fellowship of Reconciliation was in 1914, on the eve of the First World War. Henry Hodgkin, a British member of the Religious Society of Friends and a former missionary doctor to China, and...
Stepping up your nonviolence: volunteer and training opportunities
By FOR “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (based on “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” from Stride Toward Freedom) Join the FOR Colombia Peace Team “I’ve been doing political work or solidarity work for most of my life, and...
FOR Celebrates Ten Years in Colombia with Political Forum and Cocktail in Bogota
By FOR Colombia by Gina Spigarelli FOR team members with Colombian human rights defendersWhen we began to think about how we wanted to celebrate ten years of FOR’s accompaniment program in Colombia, it was clear from all perspectives that we did not just want to have...
FOR Celebrates Ten Years in Colombia with Political Forum and Cocktail in Bogota
By FOR Colombia Monday, June 25, 2012, 11:07pm by Gina Spigarelli FOR team members with Colombian human rights defendersWhen we began to think about how we wanted to celebrate ten years of FOR’s accompaniment program in Colombia, it was clear from all perspectives...