Other Accompanying Organizations in ColombiaFellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) -Movimiento de ReconcialiciónSince 1915, The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. A Nonviolent, Interfaith, tax exempt organization, The FOR promotes nonviolence and has members from many religious and ethnic traditions. It is a part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has affiliates in over 40 countries. Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR)- Movimiento Sueco por la Reconciliación
The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation has a long history of working for peace and reconciliation through active nonviolence. We are a Christian, ecumenical member-based civil society organisation, founded in 1919. Our 2 500 members come from all denominations. SweFOR is the Swedish branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, IFOR. International Peace Observatory (IPO)IPO is an organization of international accompaniment and communication working in solidarity with organizations that practice nonviolent resistance. Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad con ColombiaThe Colombia Solidarity Campaign is an organisation campaigning for a socially just and sustainable peace in Colombia based on respect for the human rights and diversity of the Colombian people. Witness for Peace - Acción Permanente por la PazWitness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFP’s mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. Christian Peacekeeping Team (CPT) -Equipos Cristianos de Acción por la Paz (ECAP)Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war, today CPT places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love. Peace Watch StwitzerlandPeace Watch Colombia is a project of Peace Watch Switzerland (PWS), that has as its goal to contribute to the prevention of acts of violence. International accompaniment volunteers (human rigths observers) are present in Colombian villages to protect the civil population from violence. PWS in Switzerland is looking for volunteer human rights observers to participate in the training programme and to volunteer for a period of three months in Colombia. |
