Training the Peacemaker Corps

Applicants for both the Full-time Corps and the Reserve Corps participate in an intensive, integrated, four-week training course involving action, reflection, and practice of a variety of peacemaking skills in the following areas:

July 16-29, 2008: The San Lucas Mountains in southern Bolívar house the most valuable and largely unexploited gold reserve in the Americas. More than 30,000 people depend on small-scale mining for a living. Long-recognized as a centre for guerrilla activity, paramilitaries began to move into the area in the last decade.

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