Community Peacemaker Teams

Just before sunrise, in the middle of June, at 4am, the team and I headed out of our homes, reaching out to our parents for one last hug before embarking on the journey that awaited us.

We left for a retreat after a year of service and accompaniment in our community. Technically, the road to Jordan should take no more than an hour, measuring just 10 kilometers. Bei...

In the aftermath of the election, CPT Colombia has been meeting with the community of El Guayabo to assess what the result means for them and the risks that lie ahead.

With the election of far-right Abelardo de la Espriella – a man who vows to smash his opponents, put them in mega-prisons, and hand the economy over to extractive industry – the people of El Guayabo h...

Driving a vehicle at two kilometers an hour was more difficult than I thought. As I feathered the brakes of the pick-up truck, I kept a close eye on my rearview mirror. Behind me, members of Grassy Narrows First Nation were marching and singing, leading hundreds of Indigenous leaders and allies from Waverley Park to the harbour in Thunder Bay, Ontario. CPT was there to suppor...

The last week of June has become International Refugee Week, and different organisations have been holding events, celebrating … but what is there to celebrate? 

The date was first established in 2001 to celebrate 50 years of the Geneva Convention. Seventy-five years later, on 12 June 2026, the new EU Migration Pact has begun to be implemented. This pact is a comp...

Last weekend, Colombia’s future looked set to take a sharp turn to the right. Preliminary results from the presidential election give a razor-thin lead, less than one per cent, to Trump-backed far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella. With a margin so narrow, Colombia’s National Elections Council is conducting an official recount.

Many of us who have watched the...