Community Peacemaker Teams
CPT in the classroom
Are you an educator? Are you looking for ways to help your students link their ideas about justice in the world to practical ways to make positive change? Then I recommend that you invite members of Community Peacemaker Teams into your classroom. I did just that. Last spring, two CPTers came to my classroom. I’m […]
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Join us to celebrate 40 years!
This year, Community Peacemaker Teams marks its 40th anniversary! To celebrate this milestone, we’re hosting a special online gathering that brings together stories spanning four decades of peacemaking, solidarity, and transforming violence and oppression. We’re honoured to welcome Judy Da Silva, Anishinaabe Elder and Land Defender from Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation (Grassy Narrows), as our keynote speaker. Judy […]
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Is love real?
In a cafe, In Al-Khalil, five teenage girls approached me, an older white woman, and asked lots of questions. Is love real? was their last question. I was leaving and there wasn’t time to say much. But I thought about it afterwards. Is love real? she asked,speaking for the five bright eyed girls,shy but eager […]
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What’s happening on the border right now?
What’s happening on the border right now? The quick and easy answer is, “Not much.” Border Patrol is not deporting people through the port here in Douglas/Agua Prieta. That means no one is stopping at the Centro de Recursos para Migrantes for water or information, and there are no travelers wearing hooded sweatshirts and carrying […]
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Weaving hope and resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan
A few weeks ago, Rebaz Suleiman Sallih was killed. Rebaz was a shepherd who lived near the border where Iraqi Kurdistan meets Iran. He and his brother Bewar had gone to bring in their flock, which was grazing on a plateau next to the border. Iranian soldiers opened fire on them. Bewar escaped, but Rebaz […]
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Where safety lies, humanity blossoms
Europe today lives in a state of profound contradiction. At the latest World Cup, it celebrated the vibrant, dazzling triumphs of youth born in the soil of sanctuary. And yet it erects increasingly cold, bureaucratic mechanisms designed to ensure that those seeking sanctuary now never take root. This divide raises a fundamental question about how […]
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