Building Justice Across Borders

Building Justice Across Borders
Delegations, Community Nonviolent Resistance to Impunity in Colombia
August 2nd-16th, 2008

2008 FOR Delegation to Colombia:
Program Highlights:

• Travel to the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó
• Meet with people whose family members have been killed by the US-funded Colombian army and are non-violently working for justice for these crimes.
• Meet grassroots activists who courageously and creatively advocate for truth, justice and integral reparations.
• Experience unparalleled access to understand both impunity and advances to justice for a massacre in San José that shocked the international community.
• Understand the U.S. media blanket on Colombia and get a glimpse of the side of Colombian life that rarely arrives to the U.S.

Four decades of armed conflict in Colombia have led to Indigenous people, women, union activists, youth, journalists, and human rights workers being subject to killing, displacement, and kidnapping. Now, victims have united in a national movement to demand that the perpetrators of these crimes be held responsible.

How do you build a culture of peace amidst violence? The emergence of peace communities, sustainable agriculture in rural areas, youth-led cultural projects to refuse war, and women’s networks taking a lead in organizing for peace, has provided a political space for civilians who find themselves caught in the crossfire of the armed groups.

Join the Fellowship of Reconciliation on a powerful delegation as we visit communities and organizations that struggle for the right to say no to armed conflict and are creating peace and justice from the grassroots up.

Cost from Bogotá: $1500

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