Runbir Serkepkani, Author at Community Peacemaker Teams

A bannar hangs outside the Mytilini courthouse that reads in Farsi: Attempting suicide is not a crime, it is the result of rotten policies.

The woman who tried to extinguish her despair with fire

Runbir Serkepkani March 2, 2023

CPT reports on a Mytilini public court proceeding against Parwaneh, a young Afghan mother accused of arson and property damage. The trial occurred on 9 February 2023, monitored by Aegean Migrant Solidarity, Legal Centre Lesvos, and other partners.

Borders are the wounds from which Mother Earth bleeds

Runbir Serkepkani April 14, 2021

We will not stand ignorant of the suffering caused by border colonialism to Mother Earth and all her children.

Pants drying on barb wire in Idomeni, Greece

The phoenix needs to take his time

Runbir Serkepkani January 7, 2021

I never told him about my worries because I knew he would ride up that mountain as well, on his own terms and in his own time.

CPT-EUROPE: “Sinking in the Sea and Walking for a Better World”

Runbir Serkepkani March 17, 2016

In the summer of 2013, I walked with a group of refugees and allies from Malmö in the South of Sweden to Stockholm, the Swedish

Runbir Serkepkani

The woman who tried to extinguish her despair with fire

Borders are the wounds from which Mother Earth bleeds

The phoenix needs to take his time

CPT-EUROPE: “Sinking in the Sea and Walking for a Better World”

Building Partnerships to Transform Violence and Oppression