The 18th and 19th of October, CPTers Sarah Shirk and Julián Gutiérrez Castaño went to Bolivar City in Bogota to participate in the 3rd Coalition Meeting of Colombian Social Movements and Organizations.  Participants discussed many subjects, all connected to one objective: “Peace with integral, sustainable, and lasting social justice.” 

Tuesday, 21 October
Chihchun Yuan, Anne Montgomery, Craig Kite, and Bob Holmes returned to Suleimaniya, ending a two month absence of the team.  A member of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT) in Najef asked if the team could help find accommodations for thirty soccer players from Najef coming to Kurdistan for a bridge-building tournament between Arab and Kurdish Iraqis.