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IRAQ: Kurdish peace delegation sentenced for promoting peace in Turkey

demo April 16, 2010

CPTnet 15 April 2010 IRAQ: Kurdish peace delegation sentenced for promoting peace in Turkey.   by Michele Naar-Obed   Twenty-two members of a Makhmoor Refugee Camp peace delegation, including a sixteen-year-old boy, face 127.5 years imprisonment collectively for their attempts to peacefully resolve the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in autumn 2009.  The prosecutor from the Turkish […]

Iraq: Mothers for Peace

demo December 28, 2020

[…] southeastern border of Turkey into Iraq following a military crackdown against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in 1996. The Makhmoor camp is also home to nine “Mothers for Peace.”  These Kurdish women are part of a larger organization of mothers − over 1000 strong − who have lost children in the armed conflict between […]

IRAQI KURDISTAN REFLECTION: Peace is a woman and woman is peace

demo May 15, 2013

[…] that I was able to be here on this awesome spring day, having a conversation with a Kurdish woman who had lived and fought in these mountains for 21 years.  I knew that our ideology and methods were quite different, but I felt a kinship with her. Her organisation strives to provide equal opportunity […]

COLOMBIA: Women on the Frontlines of the Colombian Peace Movement

demo November 7, 2016

[…] armed conflict consented to an awkward handshake. Ernesto Londoño wrote in the New York Times that he watched Juan Manuel Santos and Timoleón Jiménez, alias “Timochenko,” head negotiator for the FARC, shake hands “in stunned silence,” astonished at the diplomatic successes of Colombia’s four years of peace talks. On the evening of October 2nd, international […]

COLOMBIA: A call to hope and to continue the road to peace

demo September 5, 2019

Photo: Marcos Knoblauch/CPT Christian Peacemaker Teams – Colombia has signed on to a Declaration in response to the announcement of a group of former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC commanders to leave the Peace process and take up arms As churches, national and international civil society organizations, collectives, initiatives and citizens in general, […]

IRAQI KURDISTAN: Peace through the eyes of Syrian children

demo June 16, 2015

CPTnet 16 June 2015 IRAQI KURDISTAN: Peace through the eyes of Syrian children  Peace is what it was like be fore the war On Tuesday, 26 May, three CPT members of the Iraqi Kurdistan team took the Children’s Art and Peace Project to the students of Kobani School in Sulaimani.  The children were refugees […]

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