Posted by FOR Colombia For 10 years, FOR volunteers have been accompanying the Peace Community in Colombia every single day. Our previous anniversary video included interviews of former FOR volunteers who had returned to Colombia in August 2011 to visit the peace...
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Celebrating ten years of protection in Colombia
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 10:00am In 2002, the first two FOR volunteers made the muddy trek up a mountainside to accompany the San José de Apartadó peace community — a project of campesinos in northwestern Colombia who had declared themselves neutral...
Reflections from FOR Colombia peace accompaniers
Posted by FOR Colombia Monday, September 10, 2012, 6:02pm
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...
Winds of Peace in Colombia and the Fate of Paramilitary Structures
By Susana Pimiento On August 27, the buzz about the peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist FARC guerrillas grew exponentially, as Telesur reported early in the morning that an initial agreement has been reached to start a dialogue that would...
Urgent action for safety of a Colombia Peace Community
By FOR Threatening phone calls. Illegal detentions. And a family’s home burned down. That’s what members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia have had to face just in the past month. Join us in calling on the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia to demand a...
Peace Community leader Eduar Lancheros has passed into history
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 2:55pm Eduar Lancheros, a leader in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, was the one who first asked FOR to accompany the community with a regular presence. “We want you to be a witness to who we are,” he said. He died...
Limited Ruling Paves Way for International Criminal Court
By Susana Pimiento Aftermath of a Massacre On June 5, the Antioquia State Court overturned the acquittal for four of ten Army officers in the case of the 2005 San José de Apartadó massacre and sentenced them to 34 years in prison. Though this ruling could be...