Colombia's insurgency-counterinsurgency war has left over 200,000 people dead since 1964. Rural communities throughout the country are subject to attacks and threats by armed groups, including left-wing guerrilla organizations, right-wing paramilitaries and the Colombian Armed Forces. These threats have resulted in the displacement of over three million people in recent years. Delegates will meet with church leaders and human rights workers in Bogota, then travel to the port city of Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region, where CPT's long-term team is based. From there

Colombia's insurgency-counterinsurgency war has left over 200,000 people dead since 1964. Rural communities throughout the country are subject to attacks and threats by armed groups,including left-wing guerrilla organizations, right-wing paramilitaries and the Colombian Armed Forces. These threats have resulted in the displacement of over three million people in recent years. Delegates will meet with church leaders and human rights workers in Bogota, then travel to the port city of Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region, where CPT's long-term team is based. From there

Colombia's insurgency-counterinsurgency war has left over 200,000 people dead since 1964. Rural communities throughout the country are subject to attacks and threats by armed groups,including left-wing guerrilla organizations, right-wing paramilitaries and the Colombian Armed Forces. These threats have resulted in the displacement of over three million people in recent years. Delegates will meet with church leaders and human rights workers in Bogota, then travel to the port city of Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region, where CPT's long-term team is based. From there

Colombia's insurgency-counterinsurgency war has left over 200,000 people dead since 1964. Rural communities throughout the country are subject to attacks and threats by armed groups, including left-wing guerrilla organizations, right-wing paramilitaries and the Colombian Armed Forces. These threats have resulted in the displacement of over three million people in recent years. Delegates will meet with church leaders and human rights workers in Bogota, then travel to the port city of Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region, where CPT's long-term team is based. From there

Delegates will meet with church leaders and human rights workers in Bogota, then travel to the port city of Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region, where CPT's long-term team is based, then to the municipality of Micoahumado. The Magdalena Medio region of Colombia has a complex history of engagement with both the armed conflict and the organization of non-violent, civil society alternatives. As Colombia's richest oil and gold producing region--as well as an important region for coca growing, processing, and transportation to northern markets--the Magdalena Medio

Nariño, a department in southern Colombia, forms part of the traditional territory of several Indigenous groups, including the Awá. Indigenous groups and Afro-Colombians have been seriously impacted by Colombia's armed conflict in this area. Most recently, fumigations under Plan Colombia have pushed coca cultivation from the northeast of Putamayo and southern Cauca into Nariño. Paramilitaries, the Colombian Armed Forces, and further fumigations havefollowed. Two left-wing guerrilla organizations are also active.

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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DATES:16-29 January

Other Delegations: 14-27 May, 16-29 July, and 24 September to 7 October, 2008.

Each delegation will have a special focus as follows: