n/a
Home / christian peacemaker teams

christian peacemaker teams

  • March 25, 2016
    Ten years after Iraq: Norman Kember reflects

    Ten years ago, Norman Kember,  the peace activist taken hostage in Iraq, returned home after being freed by SAS troops.

  • November 26, 2015
    Ten years ago today Norman Kember and three others were kidnapped in Iraq

    Ten years ago today, Norman Kember, Tom Fox, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, on a delegation to Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams, were kidnapped.

  • June 14, 2013
    Colombia: the history of peace negotiations

    As Ekklesia has reported recently, FARC and the government are moving ahead with peace talks in Colombia. But many questions remain about the current process, and as this Christian Peacemaker Teams briefing indicates, what lies behind it is a decidedly mixed history. Can the politics of hope overcome a legacy of oppression and despair?

  • June 14, 2013
    FARC and Colombian government move ahead with peace talks

    Negotiations between the left-wing guerilla group FARC and the US-allied right-wing Colombian government been making some progress this past week, CPT reports.

  • January 15, 2012
    A changing Middle East and North Africa: annual overview

    It has been a momentous twelve months in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and in relation to developments popularly dubbed the 'Arab Spring' or (perhaps more helpfully) the 'Arab Awakening'. Time, we think, to stop for a moment and take stock.

  • August 25, 2011
    Faiths challenged to face the reality of violence inside and out

    The historic religions are ambivalent in their respect for life, and ambiguous about survival versus broader moral instincts, says a leading commentator.

  • August 2, 2011
    Settlers harass Palestinian shepherds and assault international observers

    Several masked Israeli settlers from Havat Ma'on have harassed Palestinian shepherds and attacked two international observers, CPT reports.

  • June 25, 2011
    Making armed force redundant

    Edinburgh will be awash with military symbolism and celebration today (25 June 2011), as the city hosts the national event for Armed Forces Day - which David Cameron last year said should be “an explosion of red white and blue all over the country.” That thought may cause SNP First Minister Alex Salmond at least a moment's hiccup as he stands next to the PM on the podium!

  • May 18, 2011
    Calling for a peaceful jihad against injustice

    In his speeches at the demonstrations of the citizens’ protest movement in the Kurdish Region of northeastern Iraq, Mullah Kamaran has called for a revolution without violence—a jihad. He has urged the armed militias to put down their guns. He appealed to the demonstrators to see the soldiers as their brothers and not throw rocks or hurt them, and has twice been arrested for his stand. Peggy Gish of Christian Peacemaker Teams reports.

  • April 25, 2011
    Iraq: 'You broke the square, but you can't break us'

    A new song was playing on Iraqi Kurdistan radio just before Easter, which included the lines, "Don't kill this generation" and "don't kill the future." Michele Naar-Obed from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) recounts part of the untold story of nonviolent action and brutal state violence in Suleimaniya and Kawler, the state capital.