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IRAQ: Kurdish peace delegation sentenced for promoting peace in Turkey

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

[…] 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

[…] 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

[…] 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

[…] the churches, the victims of the armed conflict, the population that reincorporated into civilian life, women, children, young conscientious objectors and all those who dream and long for a reconciled and peaceful Colombia. With hope we proclaim that neither death, nor threats, nor wars can separate us from the love of God (Romans 8:37). […]

IRAQI KURDISTAN: Peace through the eyes of Syrian children

[…] with the same dream. One of us is from Poland, another from Canada and the third from the USA.  We are a peace team, involved in working for peace in spite of our own government’s decisions regarding solutions to the violence. People around the world are joining hands, seeking peace, dreaming of what a world of […]

IRAQI KURDISTAN: Building Just Peace in a warring world

[…] occupation are still evident in burned churches. Fire destroyed the chapel in one church CPT visited and blackened the cathedral, although the sanctuary is again being used for worship. Burned sanctuary of Church in Qaraqosh, Iraq Photo: Weldon Nisly. Un Ponte Per (“A Bridge For”) invited CPT to participate in a Nineveh regional peace […]

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